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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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read and construed as a reference to each of those two reserves severally, and so that every power or authority conferred by the said Act may be exercised severally and independently in respect of either or both of those reserves.

3. No Proclamation, Order in Council, Warrant, or other act of authority made, issued, or done with reference to the Expeditionary Force Reserve, whether before or after the making of this Proclamation, shall extend to the Native Expeditionary Force Reserve unless expressly extended thereto.

4. Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, all appointments of Military Service Boards, Medical Boards, and authorized officers, whether heretofore made or hereafter to be made, shall, until and unless the contrary is expressly provided by the authority by which such appointments may be made, extend and apply to the Native Expeditionary Force Reserve in the same manner as to the Expeditionary Force Reserve as constituted by the said Act.

[L.S.]

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty’s Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

GOD SAVE THE KING!

Amending Regulations as to Financial Assistance for Soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of June, 1917.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

I, ARTHUR WILLIAM DE BRITO SAVILE, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, do hereby, in pursuance of the authority conferred upon me by the Military Service Act, 1916, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, amend in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto the regulations of the sixteenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, relating to financial assistance for soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

SCHEDULE.

CLAUSE 17 of the regulations made on the 16th day of January, 1917, under the Military Service Act, 1916, relative to financial assistance for soldiers of the Expeditionary Force, is hereby amended by revoking the words following—“the date of the Minister’s approval, or as from any later date at which the recruit first becomes entitled to receive continuous pay as a member of the Expeditionary Force”; and substituting therefor the words following—“such date as the Minister approves in that behalf, not being earlier than the date of the application to the Minister for financial assistance, and not being earlier than the date at which the recruit first becomes entitled to receive continuous pay as a member of the Expeditionary Force.”

J. HISLOP,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.