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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 131

Canterbury Regiment.

To be Lieutenants. Dated 16th July, 1915 :—
2nd Lieutenant (temp. Lieut.) A. C. Rout.
2nd Lieutenant (temp. Lieut.) S. W. B. Brooker.

To be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 26th August, 1916 :—
6/752, Sergeant-major R. L. Wilson.
6/478, Sergeant-major W. M. Hocking.
6/2065, Sergeant-major J. M. Barton.
6/941, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant R. H. Allen. (Since killed in action.)
6/153, Company Quartermaster-Sergeant E. T. Stout.
6/1053, Sergeant (acting C.S.M.) J. M. Donn. (Since killed in action.)
6/3319, Sergeant (temp. S.M.) N. L. Forsythe.
6/826, Lance-Sergeant R. H. Kember.

Otago Regiment.

To be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 27th August, 1916 :—
Major G. S. Smith, D.S.O.

To be Lieutenants :—
2nd Lieutenant A. R. T. MacDougall. Dated 1st May, 1916.
2nd Lieutenant A. V. Valentine. Dated 1st July, 1916.
2nd Lieutenant C. McL. Smith. Dated 2nd August, 1916.

To be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 26th August, 1916 :—
8/365, Company Sergeant-major J. J. Doyle.
8/2823, Company Sergeant-major L. A. Morrison.
8/2096, Regimental Quartermaster-Sergeant F. C. Pascoe.
8/2511, Company Quartermaster-Sergeant S. J. Gilman.
8/2524, Sergeant A. C. Aitken.
8/2251, Sergeant (acting C.S.M.) W. A. Bain. (Since killed in action.)
8/2812, Sergeant D. D. Dun.
8/2506, Sergeant W. M. Rallinshaw. (Since killed in action.)
8/3170, Sergeant G. Swan.
8/1988, Sergeant C. D. Gabites.

Lieutenant J. L. Herbert is granted the temporary rank of Captain. Dated 14th August, 1916.

New Zealand Rifles.

Major J. C. Roache is granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 19th August, 1916.

Major A. Winter-Evans is granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 7th August, 1916.

Lieutenant K. A. Henderson is granted the temporary rank of Captain. Dated 1st July, 1916.

To be Lieutenants. Dated 8th August, 1916 :—
2nd Lieutenant H. R. Mottram.
2nd Lieutenant W. C. I. Sumner.
2nd Lieutenant W. F. Fowlds.
2nd Lieutenant D. C. Armstrong.
2nd Lieutenant E. A. Winchester.
2nd Lieutenant R. L. G. Fleming.

To be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 26th August, 1916 :—
26/21, Regimental Sergeant-major E. J. Watts (N.Z.P.S.).
23/955, Company Sergeant-major F. B. Williams. (Since killed in action.)
23/336, Company Sergeant-major E. Lewer.
26/38, Quartermaster-Sergeant J. L. H. Kayes.
23/972, Sergeant E. C. Ferguson.
25/48, Sergeant E. Wastney.
23/644, Sergeant G. Wilkie.
24/370, Sergeant R. A. Bennett.
25/63, Sergeant J. A. Harley.
26/61, Sergeant W. L. Hooson.
24/657, Sergeant C. C. Marsack.
24/1151, Sergeant R. D. Norrie. (Since killed in action.)
26/175, Sergeant A. C. Fulton.
24/121, Corporal D. K. Duthie.

PIONEER UNITS.

To be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 1st April, 1916 :—
Major (temp. Lieut.-Colonel) G. A. King, N.Z. Staff Corps.

To be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 26th August, 1916 :—
9/40, Sergeant J. A. Gow.
11/445, Sergeant J. H. Catchpole.
9/393, Sergeant K. Scott.
9/54, Sergeant D. McAuley.
9/141, Sergeant W. A. French.

NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS.

To be Captain. Dated 15th August, 1916 :—
Lieutenant G. M. Spence, Quartermaster, hospital ship “Marama.”

NEW ZEALAND DENTAL CORPS.

To be Lieutenant. Dated 22nd August, 1916 :—
2nd Lieutenant J. M. Turner.

NEW ZEALAND ARMY NURSING SERVICE.

To be Matron-in-Chief. Dated 17th August, 1916 :—
Matron M. Thurston.

To be Matrons :—
Sister F. Price, No. 1 N.Z. Stationary Hospital. Dated 23rd August, 1916.
Sister F. Wilson, N.Z. Convalescent Hospital, Hornchurch. Dated 28th August, 1916.
Sister E. Nixon, No. 3 N.Z. Hospital, Codford. Dated 28th August, 1916.

To be Sisters. Dated 21st August, 1916 :—
22/32, Staff Nurse A. C. Ingles.
22/20, Staff Nurse D. Commons.
22/44, Staff Nurse E. Smailes.
22/48, Staff Nurse, M. Wilkie.
22/23, Staff Nurse E. Wilson (née Curties).

CORRIGENDUM.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 75, dated 6th July, 1916, relative to the promotion of Quartermaster-Sergeant John Mitchell, for the words “Honorary 2nd Lieutenant” read “Honorary Lieutenant.”

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Meetings of Hawke’s Bay Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th November, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 48 (a) of the Land Act, 1908, approved of meetings of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board being held during the year 1917 at the District Lands and Survey Office, Napier, at 10 o’clock a.m. on 12th January, 9th February, 9th March, 13th April, 11th May, 8th June, 13th July, 10th August, 14th September, 12th October, 9th November, and 14th December; and at the local Lands and Survey Office, Gisborne, on 15th January, 16th April, 16th July, and 15th October.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Meetings of Otago Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 16th November, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 48 (a) of the Land Act, 1908, approved of meetings of the Otago Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin, at 10 o’clock a.m. on 10th January, 14th February, 14th March, 11th April, 9th May, 13th June, 11th July, 8th August, 12th September, 10th October, 14th November, and 12th December during the year 1917.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Declaring Land in the Canterbury Land District subject to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 22nd November, 1916.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the land known as the Seaforth Settlement, which has been acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts as from 30th October, 1916.

SCHEDULE.

SEAFOORTH SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 522 acres 1 rood 3 perches, more or less, and being Section 3904 and parts Sections 4014, 8028, 8330, 12168, and 12287, situated in Block IX, Arowhenua Survey District. Commencing at the south-west corner of Section 3911, and bounded on the north-east by other parts of the aforesaid Sections 8028, 4014, 12168, and 12287, 10009·6 links and 423·5 links: on the south-east by Reserve 2593, 1995·4 links, 2416·1 links, and 2589·1 links; on the south-west by Reserve 2593, 125 links, and by Sections 6, 5, 4, and 1 of the Meadows Settlement, 5624 links; on the north-west by other parts of Sections 4014 and 8028, 2415·5 links and 2347·8 links, and across a public road, 100 links; again on the south-west by a public road,