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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The Reverend James Hutton Mackenzie, Chaplain to the Forces, 2nd Class, to be 1st Class. Dated 17th January, 1916.

The Reverend David Craig Herron to be Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class. Dated 18th January, 1916.

Unattached List (b).

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 21st August, 1915.

Charles Henry Booth.
Stanley Bongard.

George Norman McLean is granted the rank of Lieutenant (temporary) while employed with the Remount Section, New Zealand Veterinary Corps. Dated 21st January, 1916.

Lieutenant William John Simkin resigns his commission. Dated 28th December, 1915.

Memoranda.

The date of the notice of the resignation of Quartermaster Honorary Captain Edward Patrick Coady from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, as published in New Zealand Gazette No. 61, dated 6th May, 1915, should read 5th April, 1915, instead of 29th June, 1915, as therein stated.

The undermentioned officers are appointed for duty as Ships’ Quartermasters on the undermentioned Transports, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, with the ranks specified, while so employed :—

H.M.N.Z. Transport “Navua.”

Captain William Henry Feldon, Unattached List (a). Dated 24th January, 1916.

H.M.N.Z. Transport “Mokoia.”

Quartermaster Honorary Lieutenant Robert Le Quesne, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles. Dated 22nd January, 1916.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Special Orders made by the Moa Road Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 25th February, 1916.

THE following special orders, made by the Moa Road Board, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Road Boards Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

MOA ROAD BOARD.

SPECIAL order levying a special rate for one year, for the purpose of maintaining the Rugby Road.

That, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Road Boards Act, 1908, the Moa Road Board hereby resolves as follows: That the prayer of the petition of the ratepayers of the Rugby Road be granted, and the Moa Road Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of maintaining the Rugby Road, hereby makes and levies a special rate of one halfpenny in the pound upon the rateable property of the Rugby Road Special-rating Area, comprising part Section 41, Sections 78 (in two subdivisions), 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, part Section 87, Sections 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94 (in two subdivisions), and part Section 97, Block V, Huiroa Survey District; and that such special rate shall be for one year, for the period commencing on the 1st day of January, 1916, and ending on the 31st day of December, 1916, and be payable in one instalment on the 11th day of March, 1916.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed in accordance with the Road Boards Act, 1908, at a special meeting of the Moa Road Board held on the 15th day of January, 1916, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 19th day of February, 1916.

R. BUCKLEY,
Clerk to the Moa Road Board.

MOA ROAD BOARD.

SPECIAL order levying a special rate for one year, for the purpose of maintaining the Norfolk Road West.

That, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in it in that behalf by the Road Boards Act, 1908, the Moa Road Board hereby resolves as follows: That the prayer of the petition of the ratepayers of the Norfolk Road West be granted, and the Moa Road Board, under the above-mentioned Act, for the purpose of maintaining the Norfolk Road West, hereby makes and levies a special rate of one halfpenny in the pound upon the rateable value of all rateable property of the Norfolk Road West Special-rating District, comprising Sections 160, 171, 172, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 205, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, Block XII, Egmont Survey District, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 173, 174, 175, 176 (in two subdivisions), 177, Block VIII, Egmont Survey District; and that such special rate shall be for one year, for the period commencing on the 1st day of January, 1916, and ending on the 31st day of December, 1916, and be payable in one instalment on the 11th day of March, 1916.

I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed in accordance with the Road Boards Act, 1908, at a special meeting of the Moa Road Board held on the 15th day of January, 1916, and confirmed at a subsequent meeting held on the 19th day of February, 1916.

R. BUCKLEY,
Clerk to the Moa Road Board.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 29th February, 1916.

THE following notices, received from the Chairman of the Featherston Town Board, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

FEATHERSTON TOWN DISTRICT.

I HEREBY give public notice that the poll taken on Thursday, 27th January, 1916, on the proposal to raise a loan of £3,000 for the purpose of instituting an electric light service in the town resulted—

Votes.
For the proposal .. .. 125
Against the proposal .. 20
Informal .. .. 3
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Total .. .. .. 148

I therefore declare the proposal carried.

M. B. TAIT,
Chairman, Featherston Town Board.
Featherston, 27th January, 1916.

FEATHERSTON TOWN BOARD.

I HEREBY give public notice that the poll taken on Thursday, 27th January, 1916, on the proposal to raise a loan of £6,000 for the purpose of instituting a drainage and sewerage service in the town resulted—

Votes.
For the proposal .. .. 123
Against the proposal .. 21
Informal .. .. 4
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Total .. .. .. 148

I therefore declare the proposal carried.

M. B. TAIT,
Chairman, Featherston Town Board.
Featherston, 27th January, 1916.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 1st March, 1916.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Taihape, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF TAIHAPE.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give public notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of that part of the Borough of Taihape known as the “Taihape Water-supply and Electric-lighting Special-rating District” taken on Monday, the 21st day of February, 1916, on the proposal of the Taihape Borough Council to borrow the sum of £3,500, by way of special loan, for the purpose of procuring supplementary plant for the borough’s water and electric-lighting works, the following number of votes were recorded for and against the proposal: For the proposal, 22; against the proposal, 1; informal, nil. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated at Taihape this 23rd day of February, 1916.

A. L. ARROWSMITH,
Mayor, Borough of Taihape.