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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

N.Z. INFANTRY.

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

2nd Lieutenant A. B. Thompson, 4th C Battalion, to be Lieutenant. Dated 4th February, 1931.

The Hauraki Regiment.

Captain F. G. Platt, 1st Battalion, to be Major. Dated 19th April, 1931.

Lieutenant J. D. McDonald, 1st C Battalion, to be Captain. Dated 13th May, 1931.

The Wellington Regiment.

Lieutenant A. H. Fear, from the Otago Regiment, to be Lieutenant, with seniority as from the 15th November, 1928, and is posted to the 5th C Battalion. Dated 27th April, 1931.

2nd Lieutenant S. Hanton, 1st Battalion, is transferred to the Otago Regiment. Dated 27th April, 1931.

The Wellington West Coast Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant H. T. Egley, 4th C Battalion, is retired. Dated 6th May, 1931.

The Taranaki Regiment.

Captain (Quartermaster) F. N. Whitcombe, 1st Battalion, to be Major (Quartermaster). Dated 27th April, 1931.

The Canterbury Regiment.

Lieutenant J. Downs, from the Otago Regiment, to be Lieutenant, with seniority as from the 13th September, 1930, and is posted to the 1st Battalion. Dated 30th April, 1931.

The Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants, 1st Battalion, to be Lieutenants:—

K. C. Hockey. Dated 24th February, 1931.

R. H. Page. Dated 25th February, 1931.

R. Catley. Dated 26th February, 1931.

The Otago Regiment.

Lieutenant A. H. Fear, 3rd C Battalion, is transferred to the Wellington Regiment. Dated 27th April, 1931.

Lieutenant J. Downs, 2nd C Battalion, is transferred to the Canterbury Regiment. Dated 30th April, 1931.

2nd Lieutenant S. Hanton, from the Wellington Regiment, to be 2nd Lieutenant, with seniority as from the 4th May, 1929, and is posted to the 1st Battalion. Dated 27th April, 1931.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.

Lieutenant F. M. Corkill is transferred from Class I (b), The Southland Regiment, to Class I (b), Corps of N.Z. Engineers (R.D. 12). Dated 30th March, 1931.

N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

Captain F. C. Gentry, M.B.E., retires. Dated 2nd May, 1931.

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Wellington, 19th May, 1931.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor, Petone Borough Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Finance.

BOROUGH OF PETONE.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, and its amendments, I hereby give notice that, at a poll of the ratepayers of that portion of the borough not comprised and included in the Korokoro Special-rating Area, and taken on the 6th day of May, 1931, on the proposal of the Petone Borough Council to borrow the sum of £35,000 for the purposes of acquiring land, the altering, removing, demolishing, or re-erecting buildings, and the paying of incidental compensation in or about the widening of such portions of Jackson Street, as the funds available permit, the voting was as follows: For the proposal, 1,313; against the proposal, 400; informal, 63.

And I declare the said proposal to be carried.

Dated at Petone, this 11th day of May, 1931.

DAVID MCKENZIE, Mayor.

Empire Day to be observed as a Holiday on King’s Birthday.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th May, 1931.

EMPIRE DAY will be celebrated on Wednesday, the 3rd June, 1931, in conjunction with the anniversary of the birthday of His Majesty the King, and that day will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout the Dominion.

A. J. MURDOCH,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

(I.A. 13/2/4.)

Prohibition of Issue of Money-orders and Transmission of Postal Correspondence in New Zealand for Mr. Walter Sparre, Brisbane.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, having reasonable ground for supposing that the person whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in promoting or carrying out a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under section 32 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, that no money-order in favour of the said person shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said person (either by his own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to the address in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

WALTER SPARRE, 396 George Street, Brisbane.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of May, 1931.

JAS. B. DONALD, Postmaster-General.

Appointing Saturday as the Statutory Closing-day in the Borough of Te Kuiti.

WHEREAS a poll to determine the statutory closing-day in the Borough of Te Kuiti was duly taken under the authority of section 20 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, on the 6th day of May, 1931:

And whereas the Town Clerk of the Borough of Te Kuiti has notified me that the majority of the votes given at such poll were in favour of the appointment of Saturday as the statutory closing-day in the said borough:

Now, therefore, I, Sydney George Smith, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 20 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, do hereby appoint Saturday as the statutory closing-day in the said borough as from the 1st day of June, 1931.

Dated at Wellington, this 12th day of May, 1931.

S. G. SMITH, Minister of Labour.

Appointing Thursday as the Statutory Closing-day in the Borough of Waimate.

WHEREAS a poll to determine the statutory closing-day in the Borough of Waimate was duly taken under the authority of section 20 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, on the 6th day of May, 1931:

And whereas the Town Clerk of the Borough of Waimate has notified me that the majority of the votes given at such poll were in favour of the appointment of Thursday as the statutory closing-day in the said borough:

Now, therefore, I, Sydney George Smith, Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 20 of the Shops and Offices Act, 1921–22, do hereby appoint Thursday as the statutory closing-day in the said borough as from the 8th day of June, 1931.

Dated at Wellington, this 16th day of May, 1931.

S. G. SMITH, Minister of Labour.

Including Additional Land in the Kaipara Development Scheme.

Office of the Native Minister,
Wellington, 13th May, 1931.

WHEREAS notice was published in the Gazette and Kahiti of the 19th June, 1930, that the Native Minister has decided to apply the provisions of subsection (3) of section 23 of the Native Land Amendment and Native Land Claims Adjustment Act, 1929, to Aoroa Lot 4b and other blocks of Native land or land owned by Natives in the Tokerau Native Land Court District: And whereas the Native Minister has now decided that the Native land or land owned by Natives