May 12.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1253

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Resignations, and
Retirements of Officers of the N.Z. Military Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 6th May, 1932.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to approve of the appointments, promotions, transfers,
resignations, and retirements of the undermentioned
officers of the New Zealand Military Forces :-

COMMAND.

The period of command of Major T. O. Lambie, Central
Depot, N.Z. Corps of Signals, is extended to 31st May,
1933.

N.Z. STAFF CORPS.

Lieutenant E. G. Moncrief, M.C., is transferred to the Reserve
of Officers, Class I (b). Dated 30th April, 1932.

REGIMENT OF N.Z. ARTILLERY.

2nd Lieutenant N. Smith, 8th Field Battery, resigns his
commission. Dated 24th April, 1932.

THE HAWRAKI REGIMENT.

Jack Conolly to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation), and is
posted to the 2nd Cadet Battalion. Dated 1st April, 1932.

THE NORTH AUCKLAND REGIMENT.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants :-
W. C. J. Perry, 2nd Cadet Battalion. Dated 1st October,
1931.
A. G. Coulam, 3rd Cadet Battalion. Dated 2nd October,
1931.
G. J. Seoats, 2nd Cadet Battalion. Dated 3rd October,
1931.
G. W. Foote, 1st Cadet Battalion. Dated 4th October,
1931.

The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) T. D.
Scott, 2nd Cadet Battalion, is confirmed.

THE HAWKE’S BAY REGIMENT.

Lieutenant E. B. M. Laseron, 2nd Cadet Battalion, is posted
to the Retired List, with permission to retain his rank
and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 22nd April, 1932.

THE CANTERBURY REGIMENT.

The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) W. Moffat,
2nd Cadet Battalion, is confirmed.

N.Z. CHAPLAIN’S DEPARTMENT.

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, No. 15,
dated 19th February, 1920, relative to the Reverend T. A.
Williams, Chaplain, 4th Class, is cancelled and the following
substituted :-

"The Reverend T. A. Williams, Chaplain, 4th Class, is
posted to the Retired List, with permission to retain his
rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 21st
January, 1920."

JOHN G. COBBE, Minister of Defence.

Appointment in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 5th May, 1932.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointment in the Public Service :-

Malcolm Fraser, Esquire,

to be Under-Secretary for Internal Affairs, as from the 4th
day of May, 1932.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 5th May, 1932.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following
appointments in the Public Service :-

William James Vernon

to be Maintenance Officer at the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington,
for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment
Act, 1926, as from the 1st day of July, 1931.

James Demetrius O’Brien

to be Clerk of the Magistrates’ Courts at Paeroa and Te
Aroha, for the purposes of the Magistrates’ Courts Act, 1928 ;
Clerk of the Wardens’ Courts, Receiver of Gold Revenue, and
Mining Registrar at Paeroa and Te Aroha, for the Hauraki
Mining District, constituted under the Mining Act, 1926,
as from the 3rd day of May, 1932.

T. MARK, Secretary.

Appointment of Districts and Places for collecting Beer Duty
under Part III of the Finance Act, 1915.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon me by Part III of the Finance Act,
1915, 1, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Customs, do
hereby revoke so much of the Schedule to the warrant of
appointment made by the Minister of Customs on 1st July,
1929, and published in the New Zealand Gazette on 4th July,
1929 (under which certain districts and places were appointed
for the purposes of Part III of the said Act), as is set forth
in the First Schedule hereto; and I do hereby appoint the
districts mentioned in Column No. 1 of the Second Schedule
hereto as districts for the purpose of levying and collecting
the beer duty imposed under Part III of the said Act or any
Act amending the same, and I direct that each district shall
respectively comprise the counties the names of which are
set opposite to the name of such district in Column No. 2
of the said Second Schedule; and (save as otherwise appears
from the entries in the said Column No. 2) all boroughs and
town districts which are within the outer boundaries of those
counties, or which are bounded by those counties, or are
between those counties or any part thereof and the sea ;

And I do further appoint that the places mentioned in
Column No. 3 of the said Second Schedule shall be places
in the said districts at which the duty (beer duty) imposed
as aforesaid shall be paid, received, and collected.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

APPOINTMENT OF DISTRICTS AND PLACES REVOKED.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DISTRICTS AND PLACES APPOINTED.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 6th day of May,
1932.

WM. DOWNIE STEWART, Minister of Customs.

Oxford County Council.—Cancellation of Unexercised Loan
Authority.

In the matter of section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans
Act, 1926.

WHEREAS the Oxford County Council has been duly
authorized to borrow by way of special loan the sum of four thousand pounds for erecting a Town Hall, and the consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loan was given by Order in Council made on the 26th day of April, 1930, and published in the Gazette on the 1st day of May, 1930, at page 1511 ;

And whereas in respect of the said sum of four thousand pounds there has been raised and borrowed for the purposes aforesaid the sum of three thousand pounds, and it has not been found necessary to borrow the whole of the amount so authorized ;

And whereas the Minister of Finance has duly notified the Oxford County Council in writing of his intention to cancel the loan authority in so far as it has not been exercised :

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers in that behalf conferred upon me by section 118 of the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, as amended by section 46 of the Finance Act, 1931 (No. 4), and of all other powers me in this behalf enabling, I, William Downie Stewart, Minister of Finance, do hereby