APRIL 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1033

N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.—SAMOAN GARRISON.

Colonel Robert Ward Tate, C.B.E., is appointed Administrator (temp.), Samoan Garrison, dated 7th January, 1919, vice Colonel Robert Logan, C.B., N.Z. Staff Corps, on leave.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Honours conferred by His Majesty the King.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 4th March, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to direct the publication in the New Zealand Gazette of notification of the following appointments made by His Majesty the King to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:—

KNIGHT GRAND CROSS.

His Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Liverpool, P.C., G.C.M.G., M.V.O., Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion.

COMMANDERS.

Colonel Ralph Anderson Chaffey, Officer Commanding Canterbury Military District.
The Honourable George Fowlds.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Anderson Hunter.
Colonel Joseph Cowie Nichols, Officer Commanding Otago Military District.
Ellen, Countess of Hardwicke.
Miss Helen Mackenzie.

OFFICERS.

Mrs. Jane Ann Bean.
Mrs. Alice Australia Gertrude Buckleton.
George Elliott, Esq.
James Arthur Flesher, Esq.
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Stanley Herbert.
Henry Charles Hodder, Esq.
Mrs. Ripeka Wharawhara Love.
Alfred Henry Miles, Esq.
Mrs. Rahera Muriwai Mutu.
Miss Frances Cochrane Rattray.
Mrs. Grace Anna Mary Wood.
Miss Etta Close.
Mrs. Agnes Dyke Empson.
George Harper, Esq.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Hill.
The Reverend Vincent George Bryan King.
Mrs. Edith Mary Macfarlane.
Mrs. Jessie Matilda Moorhouse.
Mrs. Ellen Laura Amy Rhodes.
Leonard Owen Howard Tripp, Esq.

MEMBERS.

Alfred Seymour Bankart, Esq.
Mrs. Annie Fanetta Boden.
Mrs. Elizabeth Chilton.
Mrs. Alice Maud Corry.
Mrs. Ada Maud Donaldson.
Mrs. Marion Galbraith.
Miss Helen Graham.
Mrs. Jessie Hill.
Mrs. Esther Georgina Lock.
Mrs. Isobelle Mary Agnes Mackay.
Mrs. Emily Herbert Maguire.
Miss Cecilia Margaret Morris.
Miss Sybil Caroline Nathan.
Mrs. Mary Raymond.
Miss Maggie Robin.
Charles Bowtell Smith, Esq.
George Vesey Stewart, Esq.
William Archibald Tripe, Esq.
Miss Violet Helen Webster.
Miss Helen Lucy Williams.
William Edward Bidwell, Esq.
Mrs. Constance Palgrave Abraham.
Mrs. Thyra Talvase Bethell.
Mrs. Louisa Bollard.
Robert Conn, Esq.
Mrs. Jane Duthie Crooke.
Mrs. Ellen Kent Findlay.
William Henry Harrison George, Esq.
Mrs. Margaret Isabella Grimmond.
Mrs. Jane Winifield Lee.
Miss Mabel Jane MacGibbon.
Miss Jessie Mackenzie.
Mrs. Erina Mete.
Mrs. Hannah Murphy.
Mrs. Helen Young Petrie.
Mrs. Joan Leslie Reeve.
Robert William Shallcrass, Esq.
Mrs. Mary Euphemia Roseborough Smith.
Mrs. Riria Thompson.
Mrs. Charlotte Sarah Ward.
Howitt Key Wilkinson, Esq.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

[NOTE.—The above notice is published in substitution of that published in New Zealand Gazette No. 28, of 6th March, 1919.]

Italian Consulate for Australasia at Melbourne to be temporarily in Charge of Consul-General of Belgium.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that Cavaliere E. Eles, Royal Italian Consul for Australasia at Melbourne, has been transferred, and pending the arrival of a successor the Consulate will be, as from the 4th ultimo, in charge of Monsieur E. Lauwers, Consul-General for Belgium.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

NOTE.—The above notice is published in substitution for that published on page 977 of New Zealand Gazette No. 44, of 10th April, 1919.

Amended List of Fire-insurance Companies carrying on Business in New Zealand.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th April, 1919.

THE following amended list of fire-insurance companies carrying on business in New Zealand is published in accordance with clause 11 of the rules made under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

FIRE-INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Alliance Assurance Company (Limited).
Australian Alliance Assurance Company.
Atlas Assurance Company (Limited).
British General Insurance Company (Limited).
British Traders' Insurance Company (Limited).
Commercial Union Assurance Company (Limited).
Eagle, Star, and British Dominions Insurance Company (Limited).
Excess Insurance Company (Limited).
Farmers' Co-operative Fire and Marine Insurance Association of New Zealand (Limited).
Guardian Assurance Company (Limited).
Home Insurance Company (Limited).
Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company (Limited).
London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company (Limited).
National Insurance Company of New Zealand (Limited).
New Zealand Insurance Company (Limited).
North British and Mercantile Insurance Company.
Northern Assurance Company (Limited).
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society (Limited).
Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation (Limited).
Phoenix Assurance Company (Limited).
Queensland Insurance Company (Limited).
Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation of London.
Royal Insurance Company (Limited).
South British Insurance Company (Limited).
Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company of New Zealand (Limited).
State Fire Insurance Office.
Sun Insurance Office.
Union Assurance Society (Limited).
Union Insurance Society of Canton (Limited).
United Insurance Company (Limited).
Victoria Insurance Company (Limited).
Yorkshire Insurance Company (Limited).
Hawke's Bay Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association.
Otago Farmers' Union Mutual Fire Insurance Association.
Taranaki Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Association.
Wellington Farmers' Union Mutual Fire Insurance Association.

Amended Notice fixing the Closing-hours of Hairdressers' and Tobacconists' Shops in the City of Wellington, under the Shops and Offices Act, 1908.

WHEREAS a notice, pursuant to section 25 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, was gazetted on the 18th day of July, 1918, directing that all shops in each of the trades of (a) hairdresser and (b) tobacconist in the City of Wellington be closed in the evening of working-days at the hours specified therein:

And whereas, pursuant to section 41 of the War Legislation and Statute Law Amendment Act, 1918, applications by occupiers of hairdressers' and tobacconists' shops in the City of Wellington, who observe the weekly half-holiday on Friday in certain weeks, pursuant to section 19 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1908, have been forwarded to me requesting that different but equivalent hours of closing in the evening of working-days of those weeks other than Friday should be fixed by me for all hairdressers' and tobacconists' shops in the City of Wellington which close for the statutory half-holiday on that day:

Now, therefore, I, William Herbert Herries, Acting Minister of Labour, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the said section 41 of the War Legislation and Statute Law Amendment Act, 1918...