Dec. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3691

16TH (WAIKATO) REGIMENT.

Captain Robert Duffus McFarland, M.C. Dated 23rd May, 1919.

N.Z. RIFLE BRIGADE.

Earl of Liverpool’s Own (Territorial).

The undermentioned (late 2nd Lieutenants, N.Z.E.F.) to be 2nd Lieutenants :—

William John Eyton. Dated 30th May, 1918.

Edgar Tregoning Beaumont. Dated 18th December, 1918.

Nelson Oswald Ebbett. Dated 3rd February, 1919.

James Glasham Jarvis. Dated 3rd February, 1919.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).

Lieutenant (late 2nd Lieutenant, N.Z.E.F.) Arthur Grosvenor Mabee. Dated 11th November, 1919.

UNATTACHED LIST, GENERAL LIST.

The undermentioned (late 2nd Lieutenants, N.Z.E.F.) to be 2nd Lieutenants :—

William Keith Cameron, M.C. Dated 29th January, 1918.

Arthur Farquharson Hercus. Dated 30th April, 1918.

Edward Laverty. Dated 2nd May, 1918.

William Dodd Wilson. Dated 17th June, 1918.

Charles Edward Mains. Dated 10th July, 1918.

Ernest Theodore McKain. Dated 29th September, 1918.

Henry Thomas. Dated 7th October, 1918.

Richard Waldemar Baumgart. Dated 14th December, 1918.

Sidney Ivan Adey Clifford. Dated 28th December, 1918.

Milton Conway Bromell, M.M. Dated 3rd January, 1919.

Thomas Brittin Johnson. Dated 27th January, 1919.

James Edward Moffitt, M.M. Dated 27th January, 1919.

Leopold Louis Jack Du Flou, D.C.M. Dated 3rd February, 1919.

Edward King, M.M. Dated 3rd February, 1919.

Gifford John McNaught. Dated 3rd February, 1919.

Frederick Arthur Haliday. Dated 3rd March, 1919.

James Hughes. Dated 14th March, 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 (temporary) :—

Lieutenant-Colonels.

Peter Harvey Bell, D.S.O. Dated 17th April, 1919.

Robert Neil Guthrie, M.C., M.B. Dated 17th November, 1919.

Major Thomas Fergus, M.B. Dated 21st November, 1919.

Major (temp.) Francis Ferdinand Aplin Ulrich, M.B. Dated 29th December, 1919.

Captains.

Arthur Stanley Addison, M.C., M.B. Dated 22nd December, 1919.

John Davis Marks, M.C., M.B. Dated 30th November, 1919.

Frederick James Mulholland, M.B. Dated 29th October, 1919.

Archibald Macdonald. Dated 29th July, 1919.

Henry Eastgate, O.B.E. Dated 11th November, 1919.

Victor Roche Bond. Dated 7th November, 1919.

John Tennant. Dated 11th October, 1919.

Lieutenants.

Malcolm Scott Galloway, M.C. Dated 1st December, 1919.

Leslie McKay Paterson. Dated 15th November, 1919.

Peter Allan Dunn. Dated 17th November, 1919.

Alfred William Johnson, M.C. Dated 20th November, 1919.

Hubert Roughton Hogg. Dated 10th November, 1919.

John McKee. Dated 6th February, 1919.

John Black. Dated 17th January, 1919.

Alasdair MacDonald. Dated 8th October, 1919.

N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.

Major Fred Thompson Bowerbank, O.B.E., M.D., is appointed a member of the Travelling Medical Board, and is granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel whilst so employed. Dated 17th November, 1919.

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 129, of 6th November, 1919, List 96, N.Z.E.F. Orders, relating to Sister A. J. Whitta, for the words “ Dated 31st December, 1919,” read “ Dated 31st December, 1918.”

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Despatch.—Nobel Peace Prize, 1920.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1919.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

J. B. HINE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.—Dominions No. 763.)

Downing Street, 29th September, 1919.

My Lord,—With reference to my predecessor’s despatch, Dominions No. 554, of the 2nd October, 1918, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of a notice issued by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, regarding nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 1920.

2. I should be glad if your Ministers would cause the conditions of the prize to be made known to those bodies and persons who are qualified to nominate candidates.

I have, &c.,
(Signed) MILNER.

Governor-General His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.M.G., G.B.E., M.V.O.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

ALL proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed December 10th, 1920, must, in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the 1st of February, 1920.

Any one of the following persons is held to be duly qualified: (a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; (b) members of Parliament and members of Government of the different States, as well as members of the Interparliamentary Union; (c) members of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague; (d) members of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau; (e) members and associates of the Institute of International Law; (f) university professors of political science and of law, of history, and of philosophy; and (g) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations.

According to the Code of Statutes, par. 8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated, and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to.

According to par. 3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print.

For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Kristiania.

[Note.—See page 1278 of New Zealand Gazette No. 57, of 1901, for first notice respecting this bequest.]

Notice respecting Proposed Borough of Ngaruawahia.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 10th December, 1919.

PURSUANT to section 13 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fifth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, praying that the said area may be constituted a borough under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1908. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed constitution within one month from the first publication of this notice. Such objections or petitions are to be addressed and forwarded to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

PROPOSED BOROUGH OF NGARUAWAHIA.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded by a line commencing at the north-western corner of Allotment 35, Parish of Waipa; thence proceeding in an easterly direction along the northern boundary of that allotment to its north-eastern corner; thence along a right line crossing the Waikato River to the middle of the road opposite the north-western corner of Suburban Section North No. 93, Town of Newcastle; thence south-easterly along the middle of the road along the north-eastern boundaries of Sections 93, 96, 97, and 102,