Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby set apart the land described in the Schedule hereto
for disposal under the section of the Act mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 17, Block VII, Opoe Survey District: Area, 161 acres.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 21st day of July, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Secondary Education Endowment in the Taranaki Land District,
set apart as an Addition to a Site for a Secondary School.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by section five of the Education Reserves
Amendment Act, 1911, it is enacted that the Go-
vernor-General may, on the recommendation of the Land
Board of the district in which are situated any reserves or
endowments vested in the Crown by or in pursuance of section
two of the Education Reserves Amendment Act, 1910, set
apart as sites for public schools, secondary schools, or technical
schools any part of such reserves or endowments:

And whereas the Land Board of the Taranaki Land Dis-
trict has duly passed a resolution recommending that the
secondary-education endowment described in the Schedule
hereto should be set apart as an addition to a site for a
secondary school, and it is expedient to give effect to such
recommendation:

Now, therefore, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pur-
suance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Acts
aforesaid, do hereby set apart the secondary-education endow-
ment described in the Schedule hereto as an addition to a site
for a secondary school.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by
admeasurement 5 acres 2 roods 22 perches, more or less,
being parts Sections 2162, 2163, and 2164, Sections 2178 and
2179, parts Sections 2180, 2181, 2182, and 2183, Sections 2193,
2194, 2195, and 2196, parts Sections 2197 and 2198, Sections
2208, 2209, 2210, and 2211, part Section 2212, Sections 2223,
2224, 2225, and 2226, part Section 2227, and Section 2347,
Town of New Plymouth, and being all the land comprised
in certificate of title, Volume 55, folio 46, New Plymouth
Registry.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 27th day of July, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces amended.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority
conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its
amendments, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor-General of the Dominion on New Zealand, do
hereby amend in the manner and to the extent set forth
in the Schedule hereto the Regulations for the Military
Forces of New Zealand, 1913, and I do hereby declare that the
amendments hereby made shall take effect as from the date
of publication thereof in the Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES,
1913.

Section IV. Promotion of Officers of the New Zealand Perma-
nent Forces.

PARAGRAPHS 112 to 112D inclusive, as published in the New
Zealand Gazettes of the 24th July, 1919, and the 29th July,
1920, are hereby revoked, and the following substituted:-

112. The promotion of officers in the Permanent Forces
     will be governed by establishment, and will be made by
     selection, subject to the following conditions:-

(i.) Lieutenants will be promoted to the rank of Captain
after seven years' commissioned service.

(ii.) In making selections for promotion to the rank of Major
and upwards the chief considerations will be pro-
fessional qualifications, efficiency, and character,
and only when these are approximately equal, in
the cases of two or more candidates, will considera-
tion be given to length of service.

(iii.) No officer will be considered eligible for promotion
until he has passed the necessary qualifying examina-
tion for the higher rank as laid down for Officers of
the British Regular Forces.

(iv.) Except as provided for in subparagraph (vii) hereof,
in addition to the requirements mentioned in sub-
paragraph (iii) hereof, a Captain, before being
eligible for promotion, will require to have served
for five years in the rank of Captain.

(v.) Officers will require to be reported upon as in all
respects efficient and qualified for promotion, and
to be passed as medically fit for service in the field.

(vi.) Officers suffering from disabilities as a result of active
service in the field may, on the recommendation of
the Board of Selection referred to in paragraph 112A,
be promoted notwithstanding such disabilities, pro-
viding they are in other respects eligible.

(vii.) Officers specially recommended for accelerated promo-
tion may at any time, on the recommendation of
the Board of Selection, be promoted to the next
higher rank, to complete establishment.

112A. The selection of officers for promotion will be made
by a Board consisting of-
The G.O.C., as Chairman,
The Chief of the General Staff, and
The Colonels-Commandant of Commands.

112B. The promotion of officers in the N.Z. Army Pay
Corps will be governed by the same conditions as those
governing promotion in the N.Z. Staff Corps, except that the
necessary qualifying examination will be one set specially for
the N.Z. Army Pay Corps.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 28th day of July, 1925.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Appointing a Member of the Nelson Harbour Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

WHEREAS it is provided by subsection three of section
thirty-eight of the Harbours Act, 1923, that in the
event of an extraordinary vacancy in the office of a non-
elective member of a Harbour Board, the Governor-General
shall, by Warrant under his hand, appoint some qualified
person in his place:

And whereas Ralph Benjamin Jackson, a non-elective
member of the Nelson Harbour Board, being deceased, an
extraordinary vacancy in the membership of the Board has
been created, and it is desirable to appoint some qualified
person in his place:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of
the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise
of the hereinbefore-recited power and authority, doth hereby
appoint
Albert Gilbert
to be a member of the Nelson Harbour Board, in place of
the said Ralph Benjamin Jackson, deceased.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General this 27th day of July, 1925.

G. JAS. ANDERSON, Minister of Marine.

Inspector under the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, appointed.
Notice No. Ag. 2511.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 28th July, 1925.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to appoint
Tom Edwin Woolliams
to be an Inspector for the purposes of the Noxious Weeds
Act, 1908, for the Borough of Rotorua, the appointment to
date as from the 24th July, 1925.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

Member of Canterbury Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 2lst July, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-
General has been pleased to reappoint
Robert Macaulay
to be a member of the Canterbury Land Board as from the
21st August, 1925.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.