Mar. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 705

the eighth year of His Reign, and the seventeenth day of June one thousand nine hundred and nine in the ninth year of His Reign, His late Majesty, being desirous of recognising more fully than had theretofore been possible the faithful and meritorious services rendered to Him by Members of the Civil Services of the various parts of His Empire, did, for Himself, His Heirs and Successors institute and create a new Civil Order of Distinction—to be designated the Imperial Service Order—and a Medal—to be designated the Imperial Service Medal—and He was graciously pleased to Make, Ordain, and Establish Statutes and Ordinances for the government of the same, reserving to Himself, His Heirs and Successors full power of annulling, altering, abrogating and augmenting, interpreting and dispensing with those Statutes by a notification under the Sign Manual of the Sovereign of the Order.

AND WHEREAS We by Warrant under Our Sign Manual dated the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, did consolidate and amend the said Statutes and Ordinances:

AND WHEREAS We are minded to make certain amendments and additions to the Statutes of the Order:

Sixteenthly.—(Abrogated by the Warrant dated 11th January, 1937, q.v.)

Given at Our Court of Saint James’s, the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, in the Eleventh Year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty’s Command,

EDWARD SHORTT.

GEORGE R. I.

GEORGE THE FIFTH, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, Sovereign of the Imperial Service Order, to all to whom these Presents shall come: Greeting!

WHEREAS by Warrants under Our Sign Manual, dated the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and the sixteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, We were graciously pleased to Make, Ordain, and Establish Statutes and Ordinances for the government of the Imperial Service Order and the Imperial Service Medal, reserving to Ourselves, Our Heirs and Successors full power of annulling, altering, abrogating and augmenting, interpreting and dispensing with those Statutes by a notification under the Sign Manual of the Sovereign of the Order:

AND WHEREAS reproductions of the Badges of the said Order, known as Miniature Badges, are worn on certain occasions, and it appears to Us to be expedient that the size and pattern of such Miniature Badges should be clearly defined:

Now We do by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, Make, Ordain and Establish the following additional Statutes and Ordinances:—

Firstly.—It is ordained that the Miniature Badges worn by the Companions of the Imperial Service Order shall be half the size of the Badges of the Companions of the said Order.

Secondly.—It is ordained that Sealed Patterns of the said Miniature Badges shall be deposited and kept in the Central Chancery of Our Orders of Knighthood.

AND it is Our Will and Pleasure that these special Statutes shall be taken and received as part and parcel of the Statutes of the said Order.

Given at Our Court of Saint James’s, this seventeenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three, in the Fourteenth Year of Our Reign.

By His Majesty’s Command,

W. C. BRIDGEMAN.