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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 162

2nd Lieutenant William Sarsfield Clancy, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from the 10th November, 1917, and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority — viz., 2nd Lieutenant, as from the 26th September, 1916 (vide N.Z. Gazette No. 11, of the 25th January, 1917).

Regimental Sergeant-major Edward Humphrey Bracey is appointed Record Officer, Featherston Camp Records, and is granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant temporarily whilst so employed. Dated 8th October, 1917.

Staff Sergeant Harold William Hesse is granted the temporary rank of 2nd Lieutenant whilst employed at Base Records. Dated 12th October, 1917.

CORRIGENDA.

With reference to the notification in the N.Z. Gazette No. 141, of the 9th December, 1915, under the heading “New Zealand Army Nursing Service,” the undermentioned having married, their names are as now stated:—

Sister Elizabeth Plowman (nee Nixon).
Nurse Mildred Jane Salt (nee Ellis).
Nurse Emily Wilson (nee Curtis).
Nurse Rose Jenssen (nee Newdick).
Nurse Elsie Milstead Owen-Johnson (nee Owen).
Nurse Dorothy Ann Whyte (nee Rose).

The surname of Nurse Amelia Catherine Douglas is as now described, and not as stated in the N.Z. Gazette No. 141, of the 9th December, 1915.

The surname of Nurse Letitia Millar is as now described, and not as stated in the N.Z. Gazette No. 143, of the 16th December, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 24th October, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to

Major JOHN GRANT, Retired List, New Zealand Forces (late Active List, Unattached, New Zealand Volunteers),

he having a total service to the 13th September, 1904, entitling him thereto, of twenty-one years two hundred and seven days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 24th October, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to

Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM HENRY HAZARD, New Zealand Garrison Artillery,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 16th October, 1917, entitling him thereto, of twenty years three hundred and nine days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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Special Order made by the Ohura County Council altering Ridings.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th October, 1917.

THE following special order, made by the Ohura County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

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OHURA COUNTY COUNCIL

Special Order passed at the Meeting held on the 25th Day of April, 1917.

THAT, for the purpose of better adjustment of representation, this Council resolve by special order,—

1. That the number of ridings be increased to ten.
2. That the name of the new riding shall be the Ongarue Riding.
3. That the rearrangement of boundaries of the various ridings arranged and defined in the minutes of the special meeting held on the 29th day of March be agreed to.
4. That the same be confirmed at the meeting of this Council on the 30th May, 1917.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly made.

P. WEMYSS ASKEW,
County Clerk.

Ohura, 23rd October, 1917.

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Ongarue Riding.

All that area in the Tangitu Survey District, in the County of Ohura, the boundaries of which are more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the north-western corner of Section 13, Block V, Tangitu Survey District; thence easterly along the northern boundaries of Sections 13 and 12, Block V, Tangitu Survey District, to the western boundary of Section 9, Block V, Tangitu Survey District; thence generally northerly along the western boundary of Section 9, Block V, Tangitu Survey District, to the southern boundary of the Waitomo County; thence generally northerly and again easterly along the southern boundary of the Waitomo County to the Ongarue River; thence generally southerly along the Ongarue River to point of junction of the Te Roto Stream; thence generally westerly along the Te Roto Stream to the south-eastern boundary of Section 60m, Rangitoto-Tuhua, Block XII, Tangitu Survey District; thence south-westerly along the south-eastern boundaries of Section 60m, Rangitoto-Tuhua, and Sections 5 and 4, Block XII, Tangitu Survey District, to the Pukepoto Trig. Station; thence generally north-westerly along the western boundary of Section 4, Block XII, Tangitu Survey District, to the south-eastern boundary of Section 14, Block II, Tangitu Survey District; thence north-easterly along the south-east boundary of Section 14, Block XI, Tangitu Survey District, to the north-east side of the Koromiko Road; thence generally westerly and north-westerly along the Koromiko Road to the Ohura Road, and by the eastern side of the Koromiko Road produced across the Ohura Road to the northern side of the said Ohura Road; thence generally westerly along the northern side of the Ohura Road to the eastern boundary of Section 60m 2, Rangitoto-Tuhua, Block XI, Tangitu Survey District; thence generally northerly along the western boundary of the said Section 60m 2, Rangitoto-Tuhua, Block XI, Tangitu Survey District, and the eastern and north-eastern boundaries of Section 3f, Rangitoto-Tuhua, Block VIII, Tangitu Survey District, across the Mangapapa Road to the Mangapapa Stream; thence generally south-westerly along the Mangapapa Stream to the eastern boundary of the Aria Survey District; thence generally north-westerly along the eastern boundary of the Aria Survey District to the point of commencement.

Otangiwai Riding.

All that area in the Aria and Tangitu Survey Districts, in the County of Ohura, the boundaries of which are more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the south-eastern corner of Section 3f, Rangitoto-Tuhua, Block VIII, Tangitu Survey District; thence generally north-westerly, westerly, and again north-westerly along the western boundary of the Ongarue Riding before described to the south-east corner of Section 8, Block IV, Aria Survey District; thence generally westerly and southerly along the southern boundary of the Waitomo County to a road, across the road by the same boundary produced to the eastern boundary of Section 3, Block X, Aria Survey District; thence generally southerly along the eastern boundary of the said Section 3, Block X, Aria Survey District, and the eastern boundary of Section 26, Block XV, Aria Survey District, to a point due west of the northernmost corner of Section 27, Block XV, Aria Survey District; thence by a straight line due east to the northernmost corner of Section 27, Block XV, Aria Survey District; thence generally easterly along the northernmost boundaries of Sections 27 and 13, Block XV, Aria Survey District, and again southerly by the eastern boundary of the said Section 13 to the Whenuakura Road, and across the Whenuakura Road by the said eastern boundary of Section 13 produced; thence westerly along the south side of the Whenuakura Road to the western boundary of Section 9, Block XV, Aria Survey District; thence along the western, southern, and eastern boundaries of the said Section 9 to the south-west corner of Section 10, Block XV, Aria Survey District; thence easterly along the southern boundary of the said Section 10 to a road; thence south-easterly along the western side of the said road to a point in line with the northern boundary of Section 18, Block XV, Aria Survey District; thence easterly across the before-mentioned road to the south-west corner of Section 11, Block XV, Aria Survey District; thence generally easterly and north-easterly along the northernmost boundaries of Sections 18 and 16