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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 179

D. Holderness to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 21st April, 1917.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) D. Holderness is granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant whilst holding the appointment of Camp Works Engineer Officer, Featherston Camp. Dated 1st April, 1917.

ERRATA.

With reference to the notification published in the N.Z. Gazette No. 168, of the 15th November, 1917, relating to Lieutenant Selwyn Joyce, Unattached List (b), General List, for the word “Lieutenant” read “2nd Lieutenant.”

The embarkation of the undermentioned officers having been deferred, their names are accordingly deleted from the notices which appeared in Gazettes as shown hereunder:—

Gazette No. 168, dated 15th November, 1917.

Lieutenant Irvine Watson Cowie.
2nd Lieutenant Walter Paton.
2nd Lieutenant Edward Sydney Peed.
2nd Lieutenant Henry Chynoweth Cock.
2nd Lieutenant Percy Cecil Hurst.
2nd Lieutenant Keith Longburn Vickerman.
2nd Lieutenant Clarence Lawson Lane.
2nd Lieutenant James Sydney Milner.
2nd Lieutenant John Victor Curtis.
2nd Lieutenant Norman Adams Jory.
2nd Lieutenant John Forsyth Potter.
2nd Lieutenant Alfred John Whyte.

Gazette No. 170, dated 22nd November, 1917.

2nd Lieutenant Norris Napier Fraser.
2nd Lieutenant James Courtney.

With reference to the notice published in the N.Z. Gazette No. 19, of 11th February, 1915, Appointments of Officers of New Zealand Medical Corps proceeding with 3rd Re-inforcements, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, for “Captain Robert Stout” read “Captain Thomas Duncan McGregor Stout.”

ADDENDA.

The following names of officers embarked for active service are added to the notices which appear in the Gazettes mentioned hereunder:—

Gazette No. 168, dated 15th November, 1917.

Under the heading “111 Mounted Rifles” insert “2nd Lieutenant William Henry Ebbitt, Unattached List (b), General List. Dated 23rd June, 1917.”

Gazette No. 170, dated 22nd November, 1917.

Under the heading “Infantry” insert “2nd Lieutenant Michael Francis O’Donoghue, Unattached List (b), with seniority next below 2nd Lieutenant Clarence Leslie Meredith-Kaye.”

MEMORANDUM.

Major Edwin Harrowell, 3rd Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own), Reserve of Officers, resigns his appointment as Assistant Military Secretary to the Administrator, Samoa. Dated 30th November, 1917.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Result of Election of a Member of the Dunedin Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th December, 1917.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Dunedin Fire Board by fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules made under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Dunedin Fire Board—
John Stuart Hislop, vice James Buchan, resigned.

Arrangements for First Election, &c., Oaonui Irrigation District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th December, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

ARTHUR O’BRIEN, Esquire,

of Opunake, to be Returning Officer and person to prepare the roll for the first election of members of the Board of the Oaonui Irrigation District, County of Egmont, as constituted under the Land Drainage Act, 1908; also to appoint Saturday, the 22nd day of December, 1917, to be the day, and the Cheese-factory, Arawhata Road, within the said district, to be the place, for holding such first election; also to appoint Friday, the 28th day of December, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, to be the time, and the office of the Parihaka Road Board to be the place, for holding the first meeting of members of the Board so elected.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Special Order made by the Franklin County Council merging Maungatawhiri Road District.

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

THE following special order, made by the Franklin County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Counties Amendment Act, 1913.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Special Order merging the Maungatawhiri Road District in the County of Franklin.

IN exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 31 of the Counties Act, 1908, the Franklin County Council, on the petition of a majority of the ratepayers of the Maungatawhiri Road District, resolves by way of special order that the said Maungatawhiri Road District be merged in the County of Franklin, and the Board thereof abolished.

The common seal of the Chairman, Councillors, and Inhabitants of the County of Franklin was hereunto affixed this 28th day of November, 1917, in the presence of—

W. CLAUD MOTION, County Chairman.
T. W. WOODS, Councillor.
ALAN P. DAY, County Clerk.

I, William Claud Motion, Chairman of the Franklin County Council, do hereby certify that the above special order was duly made and passed at a special meeting of the said Council held on Thursday, the 11th day of October, 1917, publicly notified as required by section 97 (c) of the Counties Act, 1908, and duly confirmed at a special meeting of the Council held this 28th day of November, 1917.

Dated at Pukekohe this 28th day of November, 1917.

W. CLAUD MOTION, County Chairman.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 11th December, 1917.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Hauraki Drainage Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Finance.

HAURAKI DRAINAGE BOARD.

Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Loan.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that a poll of the ratepayers of the Hauraki Drainage District was taken on the 1st day of December, 1917, on the proposal of the Hauraki Drainage Board to borrow the sum of £5,000 for the purpose of constructing drainage-works.

The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 102, and the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 8. I therefore declare that the proposal was carried.

Dated this 1st day of December, 1917.

H. S. WRIGHT, Chairman of the Board.

Authorizing the Laying-off of Vardon Road, Braids Road, and a Public Road, in the Town of New Lynn Extension No. 35, of a Width of not less than 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd December, 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 Vardon Road, Braids Road, and a public road in the Town of New Lynn Extension No. 35, Auckland Land District, of a width of not less than 66 ft. instead of 99 ft.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Lands.