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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 132

PIONEER UNIT.
2nd Lieutenant Hamiora Parakura, Unattached List (b), General List.

NEW ZEALAND CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.
The Reverend Patrick O'Flynn, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.
The Reverend Hoani Parata, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.
The Reverend Leslie Albert Knight, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.
The Reverend Eric Ellerslie Bamford, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, is posted for duty with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. Dated 2nd August, 1917.

MEMORANDUM.
Lieutenant-Colonel (temp. Colonel) Charles Ernest Randolph Mackesey returns to duty with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, with seniority as from 14th September, 1916 (vide N.Z. Gazette No. 138, of 7th December, 1916).

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Long-service and Good-conduct Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 16th August, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 14, Appendix IX, Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand, 1913, of the award of the Long-service and Good-conduct Medal to

No. 2 Armourer Quartermaster-Sergeant JOHN ALEXANDER ADAMSON, New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries of the South Orari River District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st August, 1917.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be included in the South Orari River District. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration within fourteen days from the first publication of this notice.

SCHEDULE.

AREA PROPOSED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE SOUTH ORARI RIVER DISTRICT.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District bounded by a line along the right bank of the Orari River from the Main Trunk Railway line to a point in line with the south-western side of the road forming the north-eastern boundary of Rural Section 13901; thence to and along the western side of that road passing Rural Sections 13901, 22626, 16736, 16737, 13902, 16365, 938, 11101, 32685, 22105, 14843, 12182, 14774, 14775, 26697, 23228, 2686, 26694, 14772, 3826, and the production of the said road northerly to the Main Trunk Railway line, and along the said railway-line to the right bank of the Orari River, the place of commencement.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Authorizing the Laying-off of Main East Coast Road, in the Town of Opotiki Extension No. 2, of a Width of not less than 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 20th August, 1917.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 15 of the Land Act, 1908, I hereby authorize the laying-off of Main East Coast Road, in the Town of Opotiki Extension No. 2, Auckland Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft. instead of 99ft.

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

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 18th August, 1917.

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

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF GORE.

In the matter of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

I, DAVID McDOUGALL, Mayor of the Borough of Gore, do hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Gore was taken on Wednesday, the 8th day of August, on the following proposal—namely, to raise by way of special loan a sum of £20,000 for the following undertaking, that is to say: protection of the Town of Gore from floods.

And to secure the above loan and the repayment thereof, and the payment of interest thereon, by the issue of debentures of £100 each, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and a sinking fund of 1 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, such debentures to have a currency of twenty-one years from the 1st day of October, 1917; and that the security for the repayment of the said debentures and payment of interest and sinking fund shall be the particular undertaking enumerated above, and also a special rate on the whole of the rateable property in the Borough of Gore; and to pay out of any moneys realized by the said loan the preliminary expenses in connection with the same.

And I also give notice that there were 342 votes recorded for and 187 votes against the proposal; informal votes, 15. And I do hereby declare the said proposal carried.

Dated at Gore this 9th day of August, 1917.

DAVID McDOUGALL, Mayor.

Prohibition of Money-order and Postal Correspondence for David Ross, Wellington.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in receiving money as the consideration for an assurance or agreement implied to pay money on events relating to horse races, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said person shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to the address in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

DAVID ROSS, 215 Ingestre Street, Wellington.

Dated this 21st day of August, 1917.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IX, Russell Survey District, for Road Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a road in Block IX, Russell Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Kawakawa, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.