May 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1305

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 2nd May, 1919.

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

Captain ROBERT MACARTNEY, 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry),
he having a total service to the 31st January, 1919, entitling him thereto, of twenty years and one day.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Awards of Long-service and Good-conduct Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1919.

His Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 14, Appendix IX, Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, 1913, of the award of the Long-service and Good-conduct Medal to the undermentioned non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal New Zealand Artillery:

No. 944, Battery Sergeant-Major JOSEPH AMBROSE ABRAMS.

No. 942, Sergeant FRED FIELDSEND.

No. 943, Corporal JOHN PATRICK WILLIAMS.

No. 931, Gunner LEONARD VOSPER.

No. 935, Gunner HERBERT JULIUS GERRARD.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1919.

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

Lieutenant WILLIAM WALTER DUTTON, Unattached List (b),
he having a total service to the 5th April, 1919, entitling him thereto, of twenty years one hundred and seventy-three days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd May, 1919.

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

No. 20/906, Quartermaster-Sergeant WALTER HENRY KNIGHT, New Zealand Garrison Artillery,
he having a total service to the 31st March, 1919, entitling him thereto, of twenty years two hundred and ninety-five days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries of the Borough of Gisborne.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th April, 1919.

Pursuant to section 14 of the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, 1913, it is hereby notified that a petition, in accordance with regulations, signed by not less than one-fourth of the electors of the area described in the Schedule hereto, being the Town District of Mangapapa, has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General praying that the said area may be included in the Borough of Gisborne. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration 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.

Area proposed to be included in the Borough of Gisborne.
All that area in the Hawke's Bay Land District bounded by a line commencing at the northernmost corner of Whataupoko No. 3 Block; thence along the north-eastern boundary of the said Whataupoko No. 3 Block and the north-eastern and south-eastern boundaries of Whataupoko No. 4 Block to the Taruheru River, and along the left bank of that river to Allotment No. 10, Hapara; thence along the eastern boundary of that allotment to its north-eastern corner; thence across a road to the south-eastern corner of Allotment No. 31, Halstead, and along the eastern boundary of that allotment to its north-eastern corner; thence along the northern boundary of Allotment No. 32, the abutment of a road, and the northern boundary of Allotment No. 33, Halstead, to Lytton Road; thence along the western side of that road to Ormond Road; thence along a right line bearing 37° 58' to the north-eastern side of Matokitoki Road, and along the north-eastern side of that road to the south-eastern boundary of Whataupoko No. 5 Block; and thence along the south-eastern boundary of that block to the place of commencement.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Members of Waitara Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th April, 1919.

The undermentioned persons have been appointed or elected to be members of the Waitara Fire Board, constituted under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908:

Appointed by the Governor-General—
Thomas Buchanan.

Elected by the fire-insurance companies—
Leslie Samuel Halworth Clark.
Henry Thomas Harrison Grave.
Frederick Honan.

Elected by the Waitara Borough Council—
William Roland Procter.
Henry Spurdle.
Walter Frederick Jenkins.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Date of Election of Three Insurance Representatives on the Levin Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 29th April, 1919.

Pursuant to section 18 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, I, George Warren Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, and the Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint the 19th day of May, 1919, to be the day for the holding of an election of three members of the Levin Fire Board by the fire-insurance companies which for the time being are carrying on business within the said Levin Fire District.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Dates of Election of Members of the Levin Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 6th May, 1919.

Pursuant to section 18 of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, I, George Warren Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Minister charged with the administration of the said Act, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the 7th May, 1919, to be the day for the holding of an election of three members of the Levin Fire Board by the contributing local authority.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 2nd May, 1919.

The following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Stratford, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Acting Minister of Finance.

STRATFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Proposed Stratford Borough Electric-lighting Extension Loan of £7,000. — Notice of Result of Poll on Proposal to raise a Special Loan of £7,000.

Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies' Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Stratford taken on the 23rd day of April, 1919,