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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 49

8TH N.Z. MOUNTED RIFLES (NELSON).

Major L. C. Chaytor to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 9th July, 1924.

THE N.Z. INFANTRY.

The Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly's Own).

2nd Lieutenant F. P. Frean to be Lieutenant (1st Battalion). Dated 13th June, 1924.

The Waikato Regiment.

Captain J. A. D. Ritchie is transferred to the 4th N.Z. Mounted Rifles (Waikato). Dated 14th July, 1924.

The Hawke's Bay Regiment.

Lieutenant A. S. Hogg, from the Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment, to be Lieutenant (1st C. Battalion), with seniority as from the 12th June, 1923.

2nd Lieutenant J. L. Milburn (1st Battalion) resigns his commission. Dated 9th June, 1924.

The Wellington West Coast Regiment.

The Reverend J. M. Stewart to be Captain (2nd C. Battalion). Dated 8th July, 1924.

The Canterbury Regiment.

Lieutenant W. Korner, from the Reserve of Officers, to be Lieutenant (1st Battalion). Dated 10th July, 1924.

Lieutenant J. P. C. Walshe (2nd C. Battalion) is transferred to the Reserve of Officers Class I (b) R.D. 10. Dated 1st July, 1924.

Francis Luckins Simson, D.C.M., to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation), (4th C. Battalion). Dated 11th July, 1924.

The Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment.

Ernest Robert Percival Ferguson to be 2nd Lieutenant (1st Battalion). Dated 9th July, 1924.

Lieutenant A. S. Hogg (2nd C. Battalion) is transferred to the Hawke's Bay Regiment (1st C. Battalion). Dated 11th July, 1924.

The Southland Regiment.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on probation):—

Gerald William Lane (1st Battalion). Dated 8th July 1924.

Horace William Robert Russell Chiles (2nd C. Battalion). Dated 9th July, 1924.

John Francis Walsh (1st Battalion). Dated 9th July, 1924.

N.Z. VETERINARY CORPS.

Captain A. M. Brodie, M.R.C.V.S. Eng., to be Assistant Director of Veterinary Services (temp.), Central Command, vice Lieut.-Colonel H. A. Reid, O.B.E., M.R.C.V.S., on leave out of the Dominion. Dated 3rd July, 1924.

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Reverend Ernest Northcote Merrington, M.A., Ph.D. (late Chaplain 1st Class, Australian Military Forces), to be Chaplain 3rd Class (Presbyterian). Dated 7th July, 1924.

The Reverend Joseph William Kemp to be Chaplain 4th Class (Baptist). Dated 24th June, 1924.

The undermentioned Chaplains 4th Class, to be Chaplains 3rd Class:—

The Reverend C. H. Laws, B.A. Dated 1st May, 1921.

The Reverend G. Budd. Dated 18th August, 1921.

The Reverend E. S. Wayne. Dated 28th September, 1921.

The Reverend R. Mackie. Dated 12th February, 1922.

The Reverend J. Pattison. Dated 13th March, 1923.

The Reverend W. J. Ormond. Dated 7th April, 1923.

The undermentioned Chaplains 4th Class, are transferred to the Reserve List:—

Class I, R.D. 10.

The Reverend S. J. Werren. Dated 25th June, 1924.

The Reverend H. A. Sharp. Dated 17th June, 1924.

Class II.

The Reverend B. J. James, R.D. 10. Dated 17th June, 1924.

The Reverend J. W. Kemp, R.D. 1. Dated 24th June, 1924.

The Reverend M. Mullineux, M.C. Dated 9th July, 1924.

The Reverend T. V. G. Gilfillan, Chaplain 4th Class, is posted to the Retired List, under the provisions of G.O. 184/1921, with permission to wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 9th July, 1924.

The Reverend Matiu Kapa, Chaplain 4th Class, retires under the provisions of paragraph 126 and 127, General Regulations 1913, with permission to wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 9th July, 1924.

The Commission granted to the Reverend L. H. Fenn, Chaplain 4th Class, is cancelled. Dated 9th July, 1924.

The Reverend J. M. Stewart, Chaplain 4th Class, resigns his commission. Dated 7th July, 1924.

ERRATUM.

The notice published in the N.Z. Gazette No. 48, of 17th July, 1924, relating to the appointment of 2nd Lieutenant Malcolm Niccol to the North Auckland Regiment should read “The Wellington West Coast Regiment (2nd C. Battalion)” and not as therein stated.

Dismissal from the Forces.

Department of Defence,

Wellington, 16th July, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the dismissal of the undermentioned from the New Zealand Defence Forces, under section 6 (b), Defence Act, 1909, he having been convicted by the Civil power:—

4/A/828. R. M. Ridgway, Non-effective List, Territorial Force.

Dated 1st July, 1924.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,

For Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 15th July, 1924.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Hastings, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL.

£49,000 Footpaths, Kerbs, and Channels, Sewers, and Road-surfacing Loan, 1924.

NOTICE is hereby given that a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Hastings, including all other persons entitled to vote on proposals to raise loans, was duly taken on Wednesday, the 2nd day of July, 1924, upon the following proposal:—

A proposal to borrow by way of special loan within the meaning of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and under the authority of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, and the amendments thereof respectively, the sum of £49,000, to be expended for the following purposes: (a) Footpaths, kerbs, and channels, £15,000; (b) for sewers and extension of sewers, £2,000; (c) bitumen road-surfacing, £22,330; (d) for the purchase of roadmaking machinery and plant, £5,670; cost of raising the loan, interest and sinking fund for first year, and contingencies, £4,000: total, £49,000.

At such poll the number of votes recorded was: For the proposal, 675; against the proposal, 395; informal votes, 24. I do therefore hereby declare the said proposal carried.

Dated at Hastings this 3rd day of July, 1924.

G. A. MADDISON, Mayor.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 16th July, 1924.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Council of the County of Raglan, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913.

W. F. MASSEY, Minister of Finance.

RAGLAN COUNTY COUNCIL.

Loan of £18,000 for forming and metalling various Roads in the Te Akau and Waingaro Ridings.

PURSUANT to the provisions of section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that the following is the result of a poll of the ratepayers of the Te Akau and Waingaro Ridings of the County of Raglan, taken on the 7th day of July, 1924, on the proposal to borrow the sum of £18,000 for the purpose of forming and metalling various roads in the Te Akau and Waingaro Ridings of the County of Raglan:—

Total number of valid votes recorded, 328; for the proposal, 269; against the proposal, 59.