Dec. 8.]

THE N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The undermentioned to be Chaplains, 4th Class (C. of E.):-

The Reverend Eric John Rich (R.D. 6). Dated 19th November, 1927.

The Reverend Ernest Blackwood Moore (R.D. 9). Dated 24th November, 1927.

The Reverend W. Tanner, Chaplain, 4th Class, is transferred to the Reserve List, Class I (R.D. 12). Dated 24th November, 1927.

The Reverend K. J. McFarland, Chaplain, 4th Class, is transferred from R.D. 6 to R.D. 1. Dated 28th November, 1927.

The Reverend J. D. Smith, Chaplain, 4th Class, is transferred from R.D. 8 to R.D. 11. Dated 24th November, 1927.

The Reverend J. McClroy, Chaplain, 4th Class, Reserve List, Class II, having left the Dominion, is retired. Dated 24th November, 1927.

The undermentioned Chaplains, 4th Class, are retired:-

The Reverend J. N. Thompson. Dated 24th November, 1927.

The Reverend H. G. Hercus. Dated 25th November, 1927.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.

The Hawke's Bay Regiment.

Captain W.A.G. Penlington is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Major, with permission to wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 28th November, 1927.

Wellington West Coast Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant C.M. Stanley is posted to the Retired List, with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 28th November, 1927.

F.J.ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Resignation from the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division).

Navy Office,

Wellington, 30th November, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to accept the resignation of the undermentioned officer:-

Captain John Rickards Middleton, D.S.O., R.N. (retired), as a Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division), on his appointment as Director of Royal Naval Reserves (New Zealand), to date 20th November, 1927.

F.J.ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Defence Rifle Club disbanded.

Department of Defence,

Wellington, 30th November, 1927.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has approved of the disbandment of the undermentioned Defence Rifle Club, under section 43, Defence Act, 1909:-

Upper King-country Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Matapuna. Dated 9th November, 1927.

F.J.ROLLESTON, Minister of Defence.

Confirmation of Scheme of Consolidation.

In the matter of section 6 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that a scheme of consolidation, dated the 21st day of November, 1927, dealing with Ngatimanuhiaikai Nos. 4c, 11, and 17c Blocks, as set out in the said scheme, having been prepared by the Native Land Court in accordance with the above-mentioned Act, and submitted under the seal of the said Court to the Native Minister for his approval, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, as such Native Minister, being satisfied that the scheme so submitted is just and equitable and is in the public interest, do hereby confirm the said scheme of consolidation of the 21st day of November, 1927.

Dated the 28th day of November, 1927.

J.G.COATES, Native Minister.

Authorizing the Laying-off of a Road of less Width than 66 ft.

WHEREAS in the opinion of the Minister of Lands it is inexpedient, by reason of the fact that the land shown upon the plan of Town of Waihi Beach Extension No. 2, affecting Waihi No. 3 Block and parts of Waihi Nos. 2 and 5 Blocks, in Block III, Waihi North Survey District, is intended to be used wholly for residential purposes, that the roads shown therein and named The Terrace, Seaview, Pacific, School, Scarborough, Marine Avenue, and Esplanade, should be of the width of 66 ft.

Now, therefore, I, Alexander Donald McLeod, Minister of Lands, do hereby, in pursuance of the power conferred upon me by section 17, subsection (1), of the Land Act, 1924, and of every other power me thereunto enabling, authorize the laying-off of such road of a width of 49.5 ft.: Provided always that it shall not be lawful for any person to erect or cause to be erected any building at a less distance than 33 ft. from the middle of such road.

Given under my hand, this 30th day of November, 1927.

A.D.MCLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Meetings of Taranaki Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,

Wellington, 3rd December, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in pursuance of section 54 of the Land Act, 1924, approved of meetings of the Taranaki Land Board being held at the District Lands and Survey Office, New Plymouth, at 9.30 o'clock a.m., on Wednesday the 25th January, 22nd February, 28th March, Tuesday the 24th April, Wednesday the 23rd May, 27th June, 25th July, 22nd August, 26th September, 24th October, 28th November, and 19th December during the year 1928.

A.D.MCLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Notice of Intention to take additional Land in the Borough of Hastings for Post-office Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for post-office purposes: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Hastings, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 24.69 perches.

Being part Lots 1-5, D.P. 2795, part Subdivision E, Here-taunga Block (Hawke's Bay R.D.). (S.O. 930, green.) Situated in the Borough of Hastings.

In the Hawke's Bay Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 70561, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon edged pink.

As witness my hand at Wellington, this 1st day of December, 1927.

K.S.WILLIAMS, Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 20/332/1.)

Result of Election of Trustees of Drainage Districts.

Department of Internal Affairs,

Wellington, 2nd December, 1927.

THE following results of the election of the trustees of drainage districts have been received from the Returning Officers, and are published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

G.P.NEWTON,

Assistant Under-Secretary.

Orua Drainage District: County of Manawatu— Thomas Wright. (I.A. 19/78/14.)

Raupo Drainage District: County of Otamatea— William Thomas Hunt, Walter Henry Lethbridge, William Alexander Preston, Frederick Sterling, William Sinclair Wallace. (I.A. 19/78/56.)