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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 116

John Cumming Clarke. Dated 27th January, 1919.
Edwin James Donald. Dated 27th January, 1919.
Murdoch Macaskill, D.C.M. Dated 27th January, 1919.
Clarence Edward Gilmore. Dated 27th January, 1919.
Charles Henry Jamison. Dated 27th January, 1919.
Noel O'Brien. Dated 27th January, 1919.
James Albert Percival Ruff, M.M. Dated 27th January, 1919.
Charles William Twiname. Dated 27th January, 1919.
Cuthbert Leslie Williams. Dated 27th January, 1919.
Richard Joseph Morrison. Dated 1st February, 1919.
Stanley Hugh Roberts. Dated 1st February, 1919.
Lumley Ferris Ashwin, M.M. Dated 3rd February, 1919.
Charles Albert Healy. Dated 3rd February, 1919.
Allan Leslie Tresidder. Dated 3rd February, 1919.
Maurice John Cameron. Dated 1st March, 1919.
William Douglas Scott Collins. Dated 1st March, 1919.
John Powell. Dated 1st March, 1919.
Cedric James Jenkins. Dated 7th March, 1919.
Oswald Charles Freeth. Dated 1st April, 1919.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS (TEMPORARY).

The undermentioned are struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force and posted to the Reserve of Officers (temp.) :—

Lieutenant-Colonels (temp. Brigadier-Generals).

William Meldrum, C.M.G., D.S.O. Dated 7th September, 1919.
Alexander Edward Stewart, D.S.O. Dated 29th July, 1919.

Lieutenant-Colonels.

James Neil McCarroll, D.S.O. Dated 5th September, 1919.
John Findlay, C.B., D.S.O. Dated 9th September, 1919.
Frank Woolmer Parker, O.B.E. Dated 29th July, 1919.

Majors.

Edward Levien, M.C. Dated 7th September, 1919.
Henry Dolphus McHugh, M.C. Dated 13th August, 1919.
Dudley Eric Batchelor. Dated 7th September, 1919.
Alan Bernard Williams. Dated 5th September, 1919.
Alexander Cameron Monteith Finlayson. Dated 5th September, 1919.
James Garfield Mitchell, M.B. Dated 15th September, 1919.
Arthur Charles Hinman. Dated 5th September, 1919.
Bertie Leonard Redding Reeve. Dated 3rd September, 1919.
Patrick James Cotton. Dated 7th September, 1919.

Captains.

Thomas Cooper Jobson. Dated 9th September, 1919.
Edward Collier. Dated 13th August, 1919.
Henry Mark Keesing, M.C. Dated 4th September, 1919.
Christopher Ingram, M.C. Dated 5th September, 1919.
Robert Lyall Christie, M.B. Dated 2nd October, 1919.
Alexander Todd McCaw, F.R.C.S. Eng. Dated 23rd September, 1919.
Everard Oswald Rowley, M.B. Dated 18th September, 1919.
George Brownlee Isdale, M.B. Dated 28th September, 1919.
John Donald Campbell Duncan, M.B. Dated 15th September, 1919.
Sidney Harland Ward, M.R.C.S. Eng. Dated 18th September, 1919.
George Walker, M.B. Dated 6th September, 1919.
William Poole Bell. Dated 1st September, 1919.

Lieutenants.

Tom Bassett. Dated 9th September, 1919.
Lionel Marmaduke Dixon, M.C. Dated 28th July, 1919.
Stanley Lessingham Wright. Dated 7th September, 1919.
Robert Sutherland, M.C. Dated 7th September, 1919.
Alexander Grant Simpson. Dated 7th September, 1919.
Sydney Meredith James. Dated 7th September, 1919.
Lindsay Kingscote Grenville Bull. Dated 7th September, 1919.
George Henry Blanchard. Dated 12th August, 1919.
George Patrick Hanna. Dated 18th August, 1919.
Magnus Earle Johnson. Dated 5th September, 1919.
Arthur William Brown, M.C., D.C.M. Dated 3rd September, 1919.
Ralph Edwin Logan McClure. Dated 6th September, 1919.
Sydney John Hearn. Dated 29th July, 1919.
Nairn Tasman Victor Le Petit. Dated 5th September, 1919.
Robert Milne Wishart, M.D. Dated 17th September, 1919.
Henry William Dunbar. Dated 9th September, 1919.
William Bertram Cooke, M.C. Dated 16th July, 1919.
Alexander William Shepherd. Dated 21st August, 1919.
Robert Gillespie. Dated 5th September, 1919.
Thomas George Hinton. Dated 5th September, 1919.
Edmund John Foley. Dated 5th September, 1919.
Ernest William Cheetham. Dated 5th September, 1919.
Frederick Coates Pascoe, M.C. Dated 9th August, 1919.
Thomas Wallace Aickin. Dated 5th September, 1919.

The undermentioned Lieutenants (temp. Captains) relinquish the temporary rank of Captain, and are posted with the rank of Lieutenant :—

William Ricketts, D.C.M. Dated 8th September, 1919.
Gilbert Edward Jago. Dated 7th September, 1919.
William Austin. Dated 9th September, 1919.
Albert George Wainscott, M.C. Dated 7th September, 1919.
Ernest Noel Vaipy. Dated 9th September, 1919.
Richard Selwyn Halliwell, M.C. Dated 16th August, 1919.
Eric Cherrington Gardiner. Dated 9th September, 1919.

CORRIGENDA.

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 110, of 4th September, 1919, relating to Lieutenant Percy Thomas Field, Reserve of Officers (Temporary), for the words “Dated 5th August, 1919,” read “Dated 10th September, 1919.”

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 94, of 31st July, 1919, relating to Lieutenant Murdoch Macaskill, N.Z. Railway Battalions, is cancelled.

With reference to the notices published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 107, of 28th August, 1919, relating to Major (temp.) Daniel James Sweetzer (since deceased), and Honorary Captain Albert Arthur Luckham (temp. Staff), for the words “Dated 1st June, 1919,” read “Dated 31st May, 1919.”

N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants, under the provisions of N.Z.E.F. Regulation No. 13 :—

Harry Vause. Dated 13th February, 1919.
Walter Allan Stead. Dated 17th June, 1919.

SAMOAN GARRISON.

Captain (temp. Major) John Cecil Hill, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment, relinquishes the temporary rank of Major on being posted for duty with the Samoan Garrison. Dated 19th September, 1919.

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Rupert Walter Westmacott, Reserve of Officers, General List, relinquishes the appointments of Assistant Military Secretary and Aide-de-Camp to the Administrator, Samoa, and the temporary rank of Captain. Dated 8th August, 1919.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Notice respecting Proposed Drainage District, Whakaronga, County of Kairanga.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 18th September, 1919.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, praying that the area described in the Schedule hereto may be constituted a drainage district under Part I of the said Act, by name the Drainage District of Whakaronga. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the constitution of the said drainage district which they desire to lodge, within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED DRAINAGE DISTRICT OF WHAKARONGA.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District, situated in Blocks VIII, XI, and XII, Kairanga Survey District, bounded by a line commencing at the westernmost corner of Original Section 390, Hokowhitu Registration District; thence proceeding in a north-easterly direction along the south-eastern side of the Palmerston-Ashhurst Road to a point opposite the south-western corner of Original Section 5, Hokowhitu Registration District; thence across the road to said corner and along the south-western and north-western boundaries of said Section 5, and along the north-western boundaries of Original Sections 6, 7, 8, and 9, Hokowhitu Registration District, and along the north-eastern boundary of the last named to the Palmerston-Ashhurst Road; thence across that road and north-easterly along the south-eastern boundary of that road to a point opposite the south-western corner of Original Section 15, Hokowhitu Registration District; thence across the road to said corner, and along the south-western and north-western boundaries of said Section 15, and along the north-western boundaries of Original Sections 16, 17, and 18, Hokowhitu Registration District, and along the north-eastern boundary of the last named to and across a railway reserve ;