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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

Captain G. S. Sharp, M.B. (Major, Reserve of Officers, temp.), to be Major. Dated 12th July, 1925.
Captain O. J. Reid, M.B., ceases to be attached to the 6th N.Z. Mounted Rifles (Manawatu). Dated 17th November, 1926.
George Herbert Thomson, M.B., to be Lieutenant. Dated 1st October, 1926.
Alexander Lionel Caselberg, D.C.M., M.B., to be Lieutenant, and is attached for duty to the 8th N.Z. Mounted Rifles (Nelson) as supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 15th November, 1926.

THE N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.
The Reverend Henry Benny to be Chaplain, 4th Class (Methodist), R.D. 9. Dated 11th November, 1926.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
The undermentioned are posted to the Retired List under the provisions of G.O. 184/21, with permission to retain their rank and wear the prescribed uniform.
Major C. H. Gordon, M.B. Dated 18th November, 1926.
Captain J. L. Haselden. Dated 19th November, 1926.
Lieutenant F. K. Pearce. Dated 18th November, 1926.
The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 71 of 21st October, 1926, relating to Captain J. Chivers is hereby cancelled. Dated 15th November, 1926.
F. J. ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.
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Wellington, 29th November, 1926.
THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Waitomo Electric-power District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

WAITOMO ELECTRIC-POWER BOARD.
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Notice of Result of Poll.
Pursuant to section 12 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1913, I hereby give notice that at a poll of ratepayers of the Waitomo Electric-power Board District taken on the 1st day of September, 1926, on the proposal of the Waitomo Electric-power Board to borrow the sum of £20,000 (twenty thousand pounds) for the purpose of installing electrical and other equipment for consumers and for the purchase of electrical and other equipment to sell to consumers, as provided for under sections 88 to 90 of the Electric-power Boards Act, 1918, and amendments, also the first year’s interest and sinking-fund charges on the loan, together with the expenses of raising the loan and taking the poll in connection therewith, as set out fully in the issues of the King Country Chronicle of the 31st July, the 7th, 14th, and 21st August, 1926.
The number of votes recorded for the proposal was 90; the number of votes recorded against the proposal was 23.
I therefore declare the proposal was carried.
W. A. LEE, Chairman.
Dated this 1st day of November, 1926.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.
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Wellington, 29th November, 1926.
THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Board of the Elstow Drainage District, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.
WM. DOWNIE STEWART,
Minister of Finance.

ELSTOW DRAINAGE BOARD.—ELSTOW SPECIAL RATING AREA.
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Special Loan of £1,450.
Pursuant to section 13 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, notice is hereby given that the result of the poll taken on 15th October, 1926, on the proposal to raise a Special Drainage Works Loan of £1,450 for the benefit of the Elstow Special-rating Area of the Board’s district is as follows:—
For the proposal, 12; against the proposal, nil; informal votes, nil.
I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.
W. J. ANDREWS,
Chairman, Elstow Drainage Board.
Dated at Waihou, 19th November, 1926.

Result of Election of Members of the Mount Roskill Fire Board by Fire-insurance Companies.
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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th November, 1926.
THE following result of the election of members of the Mount Roskill Fire Board by fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908:—
Mount Roskill Fire Board—
Stuart Ernest Forbes.
William Charles Kemble.
George Harry Brialey.

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

Despatch, Nobel Peace Prize, 1927.
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Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 30th November, 1926.
THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, is published for general information.
RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

(New Zealand.—Dominions No. 470.)
Downing Street, 15th October, 1926.
SIR,—With reference to my despatch, Dominions No. 432 of the 29th September, 1925, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copies of a circular issued by the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament regarding nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize for 1927.
2. I should be glad if your Ministers would cause the conditions of the prize to be made known to those bodies and persons who are qualified to nominate candidates.
I have, &c.,
L. S. AMERY.

Governor-General, His Excellency General Sir C. Fergusson, Bart., LL.D., G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O. &c.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.
All proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed December 10th, 1927, must, in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before the first of February of the same year.
Any one of the following persons is held to be duly qualified; (a) Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed at the Norwegian Nobel Institute; (b) members of Parliament and members of Government of the different States, as well as members of the Interparliamentary Union; (c) members of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague; (d) members of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau; (e) members and associates of the Institute of International Law; (f) university professors of political science and of law, of history and of philosophy; and (g) persons who have received the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Peace Prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations.
According to the Code of Statutes, par. 8, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must be stated, and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to.
According to par. 3, every written work, to qualify for a prize, must have appeared in print.
For particulars, qualified persons are requested to apply to the office of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, Drammensvei 19, Oslo.
[Note.—See page 1278 of New Zealand Gazette No. 57, of 1901, for first notice respecting this bequest.]

Amending Restricted Limits for the Port of Gisborne.
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Marine Department,
Wellington, 30th November, 1926.
WHEREAS by Warrant dated the 2nd day of February, 1926, and published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 6 of the 4th day of the same month, limits were defined for the Port of Gisborne within which restricted-limit steamships and ships propelled by mechanical power other than steam, and to which restricted-limit certificates are issued,