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5. Both in the case of full and of restricted permission the matter will be submitted to the King by His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, who shall be under no obligation to consider applications for permission unless the desire of the head of a foreign State to confer upon a British subject the insignia of an order is notified to him before the order is conferred, either through the British Diplomatic Representative accredited by the head of the foreign State, or through the Diplomatic Representative of the latter at the Court of St. James.

6. When His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs shall have taken the King’s pleasure on any such application, and shall have obtained His Majesty’s permission for the person in whose favour it has been made to wear the foreign order, he shall signify the same to His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, in order that he may cause a Warrant, if it be a case for the issue of a Warrant as defined in rule 2, to be prepared for the royal sign-manual.

When such Warrant shall have been signed by the King, a notification shall be inserted in the Gazette, stating the service for which the foreign order has been conferred.

Persons in whose favour such Warrants are issued will be required to pay to His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department a stamp duty of 10s.

7. The Warrant signifying His Majesty’s permission may, at the request and at the expense of the person who has obtained it, be registered in the College of Arms. Every such Warrant as aforesaid shall contain a clause, providing that His Majesty’s license and permission does not authorize the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of His Majesty’s Realms.

8. A British subject who has received the royal permission, full or restricted, to accept and wear the decoration of a foreign order will, on application, receive permission to accept the decoration of a higher class of the same order.

9. These regulations apply only to orders of chivalry. Decorations conferred by private societies and decorations of a purely academic nature, and all decorations not being orders of chivalry, may be accepted without His Majesty’s permission, but must not be worn.

Exception is made in the case of a few foreign orders, which, though not in strictness orders of chivalry, yet are of such a high distinction that, for the purpose of these regulations, they are to be considered and treated as orders of chivalry.

Medals.

10. Medals, with the exceptions specified below, are subject to the regulations in the same manner as orders, but permission to wear is given by letter and not by royal Warrant. No permission is needed to accept a foreign medal if it is not to be worn.

11. Medals for saving or attempting to save life at sea or on land conferred on behalf of the head or government of a foreign State may be accepted and worn without His Majesty’s special permission.

12. Applications for His Majesty’s permission to wear medals, other than medals for saving life, conferred by private societies or institutions and commemorative medals cannot be entertained.

13. His Majesty will not grant permission to wear any foreign war medal if the person on whom it is to be or has been conferred was during the war acting in contravention of the Foreign Enlistment Act.

General.

14. Ladies are subject to the regulations in all respects in the same manner as men.

Foreign Office, January, 1926.

Notice respecting Proposed Alteration of Boundaries, Borough of Otaki.

Department of Internal Affairs.
Wellington, 17th August, 1926.

IT is hereby notified that a petition has been presented to His Excellency the Governor-General, under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1920, praying that the areas described in the Schedule hereto may be excluded from the Borough of Otaki and included in the County of Horowhenua. All persons affected are hereby called upon to lodge any written objections to or petitions against the proposed alteration of boundaries which they desire to lodge within one month from the first publication of this notice, such objections or petitions to be addressed to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.
AREAS PROPOSED TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE BOROUGH OF OTAKI.

ALL that area in the Wellington Land District bounded by a line commencing at a point in the middle of the Waitohu Stream in line with the eastern boundary of the Church Mission Grant; thence north-easterly generally along the middle of the said Waitohu Stream to the Old Coach Road; thence across that road and southerly along its eastern side to the westernmost corner of Pukekaraka No. 5 Block; thence across that road south-westerly along its western side to the north-eastern corner of Piritaia No. 3 Block; thence westerly and southerly along the northern and western boundaries of Piritaia No. 3 aforesaid, to the north-eastern corner of Piritaia No. 4 Block; thence north-westerly along the northern boundary of the said Piritaia No. 4 to the eastern boundary of the Church Mission Grant aforesaid; thence northerly along that boundary to the point of commencement.

Also all that area in the Wellington Land District bounded by a line commencing from a point on the boundary of the Borough of Otaki, being the junction of the western boundary of Maungapiharau Block with the northern side of the old course of the Otaki River; thence towards the south by the northern side of the old course of the Otaki River to the junction thereof with the south-western boundary of Takapu Block; thence by the western boundary of Takapu Block to the southern boundary of Takapuotoiroa No. 3 Block; thence generally by the southern and western boundaries Takapuotoiroa Blocks Nos. 3 and 1 to the south-western corner of Waiariki No. 1A Block; thence by the south-western boundaries of Waiariki 1A and 1B Blocks to the northern corner of Paremata No. 12 Block; thence generally by the north-western boundary of Paremata No. 12 Block and the eastern boundary of Paremata Subdivision No. 4 to the southern side of the Rangiruru Creek; thence along the southern side of the Rangiruru Creek to the eastern side of Beach Road; thence along the eastern side of Beach Road to a point on the northern side of and distant 40 links from the northern side of the Rangiruru Creek; thence generally by a line parallel to the northern side of Rangiruru Creek, 324·9 links, 225·1 links, and 226 links, to a point on the western boundary of Taumanuka 3D Block; thence generally by the western and northern boundaries of the said Taumanuka 3D Block and the eastern boundary of Taumanuka 3C 2 Block to a point thereon distant 309·5 links from the northern boundary of Taumanuka 3D Block; thence by a right line, 495·2 links and 201·4 links, to the westernmost corner of the Church Mission Grant; thence towards the east by the western boundary of the Church Mission Grant to the southern side of the Maringiawai Stream; thence along the southern side of the Maringiawai Stream to the northern corner of the Maungapiharau Block; thence by the western boundary of the said Maungapiharau Block to the point of commencement.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Results of Polls for Proposed Loans.

Wellington, 11th August, 1926.

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

WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

PETONE BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Loan of £10,000.

PURSUANT to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, and its amendments, I hereby give notice that on the 4th day of August, 1926, a proposal was submitted by the Petone Borough Council to the ratepayers of the Petone Eastern Special-rating Area, as defined by a resolution passed by the Petone Borough Council on the 14th day of December, 1914, for raising a special loan of £10,000 for the acquisition of land, alteration, removal, demolition, or re-erection of buildings, and the payment to any person or persons of any incidental compensation, for the purpose of widening such portions of Jackson Street as the funds available permit, in order that the said street may conform to the new alignment as defined upon the Surveyor’s plan, which alignment and plan were formally adopted by the Petone Borough Council on the 3rd day of May, 1926, and for doing all such street-formation work as the widening may entail.

The number of votes recorded respectively for and against the proposal were as follows: For, 316; against, 288; informal votes, 17.

I declare the said proposal to be carried,