3948
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 160

NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
Captain Andrew William Alexander Richardson, appointed to Command the Troops in Samoa, 16th December, 1917, was posted for duty with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Samoa, as from the 13th January, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Appointments of Officers for Duty with H.M.N.Z. Hospital Ship “Maheno,” 4th Commission.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 12th October, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned appointments of officers for duty with H.M.N.Z. Hospital Ship “Maheno,” 4th Commission. Dated 20th October, 1917.

NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS.
Lieut.-Colonel (temp. Colonel) Tracy Russell Inglis, M.B., Melb. Univ., returns to duty.
Major Ernest Edward Porritt, M.S., M.D. Edin., F.R.C.S. Edin.
Captain James Henry Crawshaw, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond.
Captain (temp.) William Aiken Fairclough, M.B., B.S. N.Z., returns to duty.
Captain (temp.) James Reid, M.B., B.S., Aberd.
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Thomas William Maben, Adjutant and Quartermaster, returns to duty.

NEW ZEALAND ARMY NURSING SERVICE.
Sister Emily Hesba Grant to be Matron (temp.) during the commission.
Staff Nurse Bessie Maxfield to be Sister during the commission.
Staff Nurse Isobel MacLennan.

NEW ZEALAND DENTAL CORPS.
Major Norman John Rishworth.

NEW ZEALAND CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.
The Reverend William Walter Brown, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.
The Reverend Patrick John Minogue, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.
The Reverend Percy Coleman Davis, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 10th October, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to Captain William Edwin Cairn, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own), he having a total service to the 26th August, 1917, entitling him thereto, of twenty-one years three hundred and twelve days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Passports required to enable Subjects of Allied and Neutral Countries to land in China.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th October, 1917.

IT is hereby notified for public information that subjects of allied or neutral countries proceeding to China will not be admitted to that country unless they have in their possession passports with 4 in. photographs of the holder attached thereto, signed by Chinese Ministers or Consuls, and stamped with seals of Legations or Consulates. The Consulate fee for visé and attachment of seal is 5s. The Consulate in New Zealand for the Republic of China is Mr. Yue H. Jackson, whose address is “Brittain’s Buildings, 54 Manners Street, Wellington.”

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks I and V, Opaheke 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 roads in Blocks I and V, Opaheke 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 Hunua, 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.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken:—

A. R. P. Portion of
0 2 3·4 Sec. E. 10, Block I; coloured neutral tint.
1 2 0·6 " W. 10 " purple.
3 3 12·5 " 13, Block I; coloured yellow.
0 0 7·4 " 213 " purple.
3 3 16 " 70 " pink.
1 0 15·7 " 11 " red.
7 1 32 " 12 " pink.
1 1 5·4 " 39 " purple.
2 2 36·7 " N.W. and S.E. 42, Block I; coloured blue.
3 1 20·4 " 67, Blocks I and V; coloured neutral.
0 0 15·9 " 55A, Block V; coloured red.
0 0 0·7 " 55 " blue.

Situated in Hunua Parish, Opaheke Survey District. (S.O. 17195.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 42915, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 11th day of October, 1917.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block VII, Makotuku Survey District, for Road Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for road purposes. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Raetihi, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections 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.

SCHEDULE.
APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of land required to be taken: 1 rood 4 perches and 1 rood 20 perches.

Portions of Raetihi Block 2B 2B 3.

Situated in Block VII, Makotuku Survey District.

In the Wellington Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 43048, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured edged red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 12th day of October, 1917.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

Importation of Plants into Tasmania prohibited unless accompanied by a Fumigation Certificate.—Notice No. 1898.

IT is hereby notified for public information that His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania has been pleased to approve that subsection (a) of section 2 of Government Notice No. 322, made under the Vegetation Diseases Act, 1898 (62 Vict. No. 21), be rescinded, and the following substituted therefor:—

“All plants imported into Tasmania must be accompanied by a sworn certificate made by the consignor, and attested by a responsible officer of the Department of Agriculture of the State or country from which they are sent, to the effect that the said trees have been fumigated under his supervision in a properly constructed fumigator for one hour with hydrocyanic-acid gas, generated from 1 oz. of potassium cyanide or sodium cyanide, 1 oz. of fluid of sulphuric acid, and 3 ozs. of fluid of water to each 100 cubic feet of space that the said fumigator contains.

“All plants so imported must be packed in clean straw, and the packing must not contain dead or living leaves of any kind whatever.”

W. D. S. MACDONALD,
Minister of Agriculture.