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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 95

CORPS OF N.Z. ENGINEERS.
No. 2 Field Company.
Major Frederick Joseph Williams is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 27th October, 1920.

DIVISIONAL SIGNAL COMPANIES.
No. 1 Company (No. 2 Section).
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Ernest Walter Lewis to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 2nd November, 1920.

N.Z. RAILWAY BATTALIONS.
North Island.
Lieutenant [Captain, Reserve of Officers (temp.)] Herbert Simmonds, M.C., from the South Island Battalion, to be Captain. Dated 1st August, 1920.

South Island.
Lieutenant [Captain, Reserve of Officers (temp.)] Herbert Simmonds, M.C., is transferred to the North Island Battalion. Dated 1st August, 1920.

5TH (WELLINGTON) REGIMENT.
2nd Lieutenant William John Gillies, from the Reserve of Officers (General List), to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 3rd November, 1920.

7TH (WELLINGTON WEST COAST) REGIMENT.
Lieutenant [Captain, Reserve of Officers (temp.)] Henry Mark Keesing, M.C., to be Captain. Dated 1st November, 1920.

8TH (SOUTHLAND) REGIMENT.
Lieutenant Arthur Victor Valentine is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 5th November, 1920.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
The undermentioned are posted to the Retired List, under the provisions of paragraph 126, General Regulations, 1913, with permission to retain their rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 1st November, 1920:—
Captain Ernest Arnott Nichol.
Lieutenant Frederick Reichel.

12TH (NELSON AND MARLBOROUGH) REGIMENT.
Lieutenant (temp.) Maurice James O’Connor to be Lieutenant. Dated 24th September, 1918.

N.Z. RIFLE BRIGADE (EARL OF LIVERPOOL’S OWN),
TERRITORIAL.
2nd Lieutenant [Lieutenant, Reserve of Officers (temp.)] Gwilym Owen is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Lieutenant, under the provisions of General Headquarters Instructions No. 22, of 20th February, 1920. Dated 11th November, 1920.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).
Lieutenant Henry Daniel Williams is transferred to the Reserve of Officers (General List). Dated 5th November, 1920.

Lieutenant John Frederick Atkinson is retired, under the provisions of paragraph 127, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 2nd November, 1920.

2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Harold Douglas Tait to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 2nd November, 1920.

Company Sergrant-Major Leslie Gordon Simpson to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 2nd November, 1920.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants (temp.) resign their commissions:—
George William Currie. Dated 4th November, 1920.
Henry De Denne. Dated 5th November, 1920.

2nd Lieutenant Samuel Charles Sherrard, from the Unattached List (General List), to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 3rd November, 1920.

The commission granted Lieutenant Bernard Francis Scannell is cancelled, under the provisions of section 5 (a) of the Defence Act, 1909. Dated 13th October, 1920.

UNATTACHED LIST (GENERAL LIST).
2nd Lieutenant Samuel Charles Sherrard is transferred to the Unattached List (b). Dated 3rd November, 1920.

2nd Lieutenant [Major, Reserve of Officers (temp.)] Gerald Lyon, M.C., is transferred to the N.Z. Field Artillery, “D” Battery. Dated 6th November, 1920.

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 90, of 4th November, 1920, relating to 2nd Lieutenant [Lieutenant, Reserve of Officers (temp.)] Edwin Royden Wells, M.C., is cancelled.

2nd Lieutenant [Lieutenant, Reserve of Officers (temp.)] Edwin Royden Wells, M.C., is transferred to the Reserve of Officers (General List) with the rank of Lieutenant. Dated 9th November, 1920.

The undermentioned are posted to the Retired List, under the provisions of General Headquarters Instructions No. 22, of 20th February, 1920. Dated 11th November, 1920:—
Lieutenant Herbert George Shannon.

2nd Lieutenants [Lieutenants, Reserve of Officers (temp.)], with the rank of Lieutenant—
George Reginald Park, M.C.
Douglas David Robert Creswell.
Walter Cobb, M.C.
George Henry Elstone.

2nd Lieutenants—
John William Barclay.
Stephen Francis Newcome Weymouth.
John William Nicolas, M.M.
Theodore Norris.
Clarence Bertie Reid.
Percy Lorenzo Silick.
Frederick Henry Jenkins.
Walter Lewis Manby.
George Bryce Fotheringham, M.M.
Cecil R. Howden.
Henry Walter Dixon.

MEMORANDUM.
2nd Lieutenant John Robert Miller is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, and posted to the Retired List. Dated 10th July, 1919.

R. H. RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Post Office Savings-bank.—Increase in Amounts on which Interest is payable.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 24th November, 1920.

NOTICE is hereby given that, in accordance with section 77 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, as amended by section 4 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1913, and as further amended by section 2 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1920, interest will be payable by the Post Office Savings-bank at the rate of four per cent. per annum on so much of a deposit as does not exceed £500, instead of on so much of a deposit as does not exceed £300 as at present; also that interest at the rate of three and a quarter per cent. per annum will be payable on so much of a deposit as exceeds £500 and does not exceed £5,000, instead of on so much of a deposit as exceeds £300 and does not exceed £1,000 as at present. In the case of accounts with balances over £5,000 to credit, the aforesaid rates of interest will apply only to so much of the balance of such accounts as does not exceed £5,000. Such alterations in the rates of interest and amounts on which interest is payable will take effect on 1st January, 1921.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 19th November, 1920.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Central Electric-power District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

CENTRAL ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.
Proposed Special Loan of £200,000.—Result of Poll.
I HEREBY give notice, under subsection (1) of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, that the result of the poll on the above proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 515; against the proposal, 19; informal, 11.
I therefore declare the proposal carried.

THOMAS HINTON, Chairman.
Hamilton, 13th November, 1920.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 18th November, 1920.

THE following notices, received from the Mayor of the Council of the Borough of Waipukurau, are published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

WAIPUKURAU BOROUGH COUNCIL.
Results of Polls.
Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that on the 11th day of November, 1920, a proposal was submitted by the Waipukurau Borough Council to the ratepayers in the Waipukurau Borough for the raising of a special loan of £23,000 for the purpose of installing a sanitary drainage system throughout the Borough