Nov. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3579

12TH (OTAGO) MOUNTED RIFLES.
Major Robert Renton Grigor to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 30th August, 1916.

NEW ZEALAND FIELD ARTILLERY.
John Albert Govan McGregor to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.), vice Lieutenant Forsyth, on active service. Dated 2nd November, 1916.

NEW ZEALAND GARRISON ARTILLERY.
Frederick Hills Johnson to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.), Wellington Garrison Artillery Division, vice Lieutenant Finlay, on active service. Dated 2nd November, 1916.
The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Eric Lyon lapses. Dated 1st November, 1916.

CORPS OF NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS.
New Zealand Railway Battalions.
Guy Wilfred Wyles to be Captain (North Island Battalion). Dated 22nd September, 1916.

1ST (CANTERBURY) REGIMENT.
Coast Defence Detachment.
2nd Lieutenant Lancelot Richard Austin, from the 4th (Otago) Regiment (Coast Defence Detachment), to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to establishment. Dated 19th September, 1916.

3RD (AUCKLAND) REGIMENT (COUNTESS OF RANFURLY’S OWN)
2nd Lieutenant Thomas William Hosking, from the Unattached List (b), to be 2nd Lieutenant (supernumerary to establishment). Dated 29th September, 1916.

4TH (OTAGO) REGIMENT.
Coast Defence Detachment.
2nd Lieutenant Lancelot Richard Austin is transferred to the 1st Canterbury Regiment (Coast Defence Detachment). Dated 19th September, 1916.

9TH (HAWKE’S BAY) REGIMENT.
Captain Ernest Sirdefield Harston to be Major, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 27th October, 1916.
The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains, under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 27th October, 1916 :—
Eric Morgan.
Thomas Casserley.
The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 28th October, 1916 :—
Percy James Simpson George.
Ernest Goying Loten.

NEW ZEALAND ARMY SERVICE CORPS.
2nd Lieutenant Cyril Leonard Fleming resigns his commission. Dated 17th October, 1916.

NEW ZEALAND FORCES MOTOR SERVICE CORPS.
Lieutenant Alan St. Clair Brown to be Captain (Auckland Section). Dated 17th October, 1916.
Lieutenant John William Bailey resigns his commission. Dated 6th October, 1916.

NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS.
Major Charles Evans Maguire is struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and absorbed, with his original rank of Captain. Dated 13th May, 1916.
John Ogilvie Veitch, M.D., M.S., Edin., to be Captain while employed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Dated 4th October, 1916.

NEW ZEALAND DENTAL CORPS.
The undermentioned to be Lieutenants :—
William David Rose. Dated 3rd May, 1916.
Rupert Ingram Sutton. Dated 23rd May, 1916.

NEW ZEALAND ARMY NURSING SERVICE.
With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 81, of 27th July, 1916, relative to the appointment of Louise Frederikke Petersen, for the words “ Matron Masseuse ” read “ Sister Masseuse.”
The undermentioned to be Staff Nurses, and are appointed for duty with the hospital ship “ Marama ” (2nd Commission). Dated 19th October, 1916 :—
Ada Taylor. A. B. T. Fabian
C. Drummond. L. Jessep.
R. E. Bursall. E. Carruth.
M. M. Park. M. Herbert.
B. Taylor. L. Feay.
G. Ward. V. M. Trott.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).
Captain Anson Hutchison Cato is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 29th July, 1916.
2nd Lieutenant John Campbell Collins to be Lieutenant. Dated 5th December, 1915.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas William Hosking is transferred to the 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own). Dated 29th September, 1916.
The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Alexander Douglas Jack is confirmed.
The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (temp.), vice officers on active service :—
William Fitz James Munro. Dated 28th June, 1916.
William Arthur Rundle, vice Lieutenant Greig. Dated 8th July, 1916.
Bennett Perry Lothbridge. Dated 3rd October, 1916.
James William Fair, vice 2nd Lieutenant Buckeridge. Dated 5th October, 1916.
Hugh Gowan Webster, vice 2nd Lieutenant O’Brien. Dated 14th October, 1916.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Special Order made by the Taranaki County Council merging Okato Road District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th November, 1916.
THE following special order, made by the Taranaki County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Amendment Act, 1913.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

TARANAKI COUNTY COUNCIL.
Special Order made dissolving the Okato Road Board, and merging the Area of the Okato Road District into the County of Taranaki.

IN pursuance of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Counties Act, 1908, the Council of the County of Taranaki, to accede to the prayer of the petitioners of the Okato Road District, hereby resolves that the Okato Road Board be dissolved, and that the area of the said road district be merged into the County of Taranaki.
The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Taranaki was affixed hereto by the Chairman, Joseph Brown, duly authorized by resolution of the Council passed on the 6th day of November, 1916.
Signed by direction and on behalf of the Council—
WILLIAM BINNIE, Councillor,
CHARLES ANDREWS, Councillor,
in the presence of—
ROBERT ELLIS, County Clerk, New Plymouth.
Dated at New Plymouth this 6th day of November, 1916.
I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made.

ROBERT ELLIS, County Clerk.
Dated at New Plymouth this 7th day of November, 1916.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 13th November, 1916.
THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Devonport, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

A. M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF DEVONPORT.
Result of Poll.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, and the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1916 (section 25), and of the Acts amending same respectively, we hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Devonport taken on the 3rd day of November, 1916, on the proposal of the Devonport Borough Council to borrow the sum of £12,000 for constructing, providing, and establishing the undermentioned public works or undertakings, or of providing the cost of any such works or undertakings that have already been constructed, provided, or established, or of refunding to the District Fund Account of the said borough any moneys heretofore paid thereout