EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLI, Issue 36, 13 September 1916, Page 644

EXTRACTS FROM NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(From Gazette, 1916, pages 2895, 2896, 2897, 2935, 2955, 2958, 2959, 2964, and 2986.)

Funds approved under Section 40 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1016.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 28th August, 1916. PURSUANT to section 40 of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916, I hereby notify for public information that I have this day approved, for the purposes of the said section, the war funds controlled by the societies named in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE. Auckland Provincial District. Name of Society. Address. Alfriston-Brookby Patriotic League .. Alfriston. Auckland Provincial Belgian Relief Association .. .. .. .. Auckland. New Zealand Herald and Auckland Weekly News Fund .. .. .. „ Navy League North Sea Relief Fund .. „ New Zealand French Red Cross Fund .. „ The Mayor’s Serbian War Relief Fund .. „ Russian Prisoners’ Relief Fund .. „ Awanui District Patriotic Committee .. Awanui. Cambridge District Local Relief Association Funds .. .. .. Cambridge. Cambridge Women’s General Hospital and War Fund .. .. .. „ Clevedon Local Relief Fund .. .. Clevedon. Northern Wairoa Wounded Soldiers Fund Dargaville. Devonport Convalescent Home Equipment Fund .. .. .. .. Devonport. Frankton Junction Women’s Patriotic Committee .. .. .. .. Frankton June, Gisborne Citizens’ Defence Committee’s Funds .. .. .. .. Gisborne. The Poverty Bay Herald Patriotic Funds ~ Poverty Bay Women’s Patriotic Fund .. „ Hamilton District Wounded Soldiers Fund Hamilton. Empire Defence Fund .. .. „ Houhora Patriotic Committee .. .. Houhora. Huntly Town Board Fund .. .. liuntly. Kaitaia Patriotic Committee .. .. Kaitaia.

Name of Society. Address. Bay of Islands Patriotic and War Relief Association (Branch of Auckland Central Association) .. .. .. Kawakawa. Kawhia Sick and Wounded Soldiers Fund Kawhia. Hokianga County Branch, Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Association .. .. .. .. Kohukohu. Manunui Patriotic Committee .. .. Manunui. Matakana Ladies’ Patriotic Committee .. Maungakaramea Patriotic Committee .. Maungakaramea Ohura County Queen Carnival Committee Ohura. Ohura Patriotic War Fund and Wounded Soldiers Fund .. .. .. ~ Onerahi Patriotic Association .. .. Onerahi. Otahuhu Patriotic Committee .. .. Otahuhu. Pakaraka Patriotic Committee . . Pakaraka. Papakura Patriotic Fund .. .. Papakura. Papa toe toe Patriotic Committee .. Papatoetoc. Port Albert Patriotic Committee .. Port Albert. Pukekohe District Patriotic Committee .. Pukekohe. Putaruru Patriotic Association .. .. Putaruru. Raglan Patriotic League .. .. Raglan. Russell Branch, Auckland Women’s Patriotic Association .. .. .. Russell. Takapuna War Relief Association .. Takapuna. Te Araroa Patriotic Committee .. Te Araroa. Hospital Ship and Wounded Soldiers Fund Te Aroha. Belgian Relief Fund .. .. .. „ Te Aroha Patriotic Fund .. .. „ Tc Awainutu War Fund Committee .. Te Awamutu. Te Awamutu and District Carnival and Wounded Soldiers Fund .. „ Thames Patriotic League (Branch of Auckland Provincial Patriotic and War Relief Association) .. .. .. Thames. Waihi Patriotic Committee .. .. Waihi. Waikino Patriotic Society .. .. Waikino. Waiuku District Patriotic Fund .. Waiuku. Whangarei Patriotic Committee .. Whangarei. Hawke's Bay Provincial District. Dannevirke Patriotic Society .. .. Dannevirke. Mayoress Patriotic Society 1 .. .. „ Ruaroa and Rokai Patriotic Committee .. „ Fcrnhill Patriotic Committee .. .. Fernhili. Hastings Patriotic Committee .. .. Hastings. Hawke’s Bay Belgian Relief Fund .. „ Havelock North Relief Fund .. .. Havelock North. Makotuku Patriotic Society .. .. Makotuku. Matamau Patriotic Committee .. .. Matamau. Napier and Hawke’s Bay War Fund Trustees .. .. .. Napier. Napier Branch of the Navy League Sailors’ Dependants Fund .. .. .. „ The Red Cross Shop Fund .. .. „ Ngamoko Patriotic Society .. .. Ngamoko. Norsewood Empire Defence Fund .. Norsewood. Ongaonga Patriotic Fund .. .. Ongaonga. Ormondville Patriotic Committee .. Ormondville. Puketapu Ladies’ Patriotic Committee .. Puketapu. Takapau Patriotic Committee .. .. Takapau. Taradale Belgian Relief, Wounded Soldiers, and British Relief Funds .. .. aradale. Taradale District Soldiers Committee .. „ Taradale Wounded Soldiers Fund .. „ Tikokino Patriotic Society .. .. Tikokino. Waipawa Equipment Fund .. .. Waipawa. Waipawa Patriotic Fund .. .. „ Waipukurau Patriotic and Relief Funds.. Waipukurau. Wairoa District War Fund .. .. Wairoa. Wounded Soldiers Fund .. .. Weber. Waikopiro and Te Uri Patriotic Society .. Whetukura. Woodville Patriotic Committee .. Woodville. Taranaki Provincial District. Belgian Sewing Guild Relief Fund .. Eltham. Eltham Patriotic and Wounded Soldiers Fund .. .. .. .. „ Hawera Patriotic and Wounded Soldiers Committee .. .. .. Hawera. Inglewood Patriotic Committee .. Inglewood. Kaimata Returned Wounded and Disabled Soldiers Fund .. .. .. Kaimata. Manaia and District Patriotic Society .. Manaia. Mangatoki Patriotic Fund .. .. Mangatoki.

Name of Society. Address. New Plymouth Patriotic Committee .. New Plymouth. New Plymouth Women’s Patriotic Committee .. .. .. .. „ Poor in Belgium, Servia, and Montenegro Fund Taranaki Herald and Budget National Patriotic and Belgian Funds .. Victoria League of New Plymouth .. „ Okaiawa Women’s Patriotic Committee .. Okaiawa. Patea and District Patriotic League .. Patea. Pihama Patriotic Society .. .. Pihama. Poor of Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgian Relief Fund .. .. .. Stratford. Stratford Patriotic Fund .. .. „ Toko Branch Stratford Patriotic Society.. „ Tariki Patriotic Society .. .. Tariki. Tikorangi Patriotic Society .. '.. Tikorangi. North Taranaki Patriotic League .. Waitara. Wellington Provincial District. Apiti Patriotic Society .. .. Apiti. Ashhurst Patriotic Committee .. .. Ashhurst. Carterton Branch, Poor of Great Britain and Allies’ Relief Fund .. .. Carterton. Kketahuna Wounded Soldiers’ and Expeditionary Forces Fund .. .. Eketahuna. Featherston Patriotic Committee (Subcommittee of Wairarapa Patriotic Association) .. .. .. .. Featherston. Foxton Patriotic Committee .. .. Foxton. Ladies’ Patriotic Guild .. .. „ Halcombe-Stanway Patriotic Empire Defence Fund .. .. .. Halcombe. Belgian, Serbian, Great Britain Relief, and Departing Volunteers Fund .. .. Hunterville. Ihakara Patriotic Society .. .. Ihakara. Levin and District Patriotic Society .. Levin. Levin Belgian Relief Women’s Committee „ West Coast Farmers’ Patriotic Fund .. „ Hutt Patriotic Guild .. .. .. Lower Hutt. Manakau Patriotic Society .. .. Manakau. Martinborough Branch, Wairarapa War Fund .. .. .. .. Martinborough. Martinborough Ladies’ Patriotic League.. „ Belgian Refugees’ Food Fund Account .. Masterton. Ohingaiti Patriotic Society .. .. Ohingaiti. Otaki Patriotic Society .. .. Otaki. Pahiatua Belgian Relief Fund .. .. Pahiatua. Manawatu Patriotic Society .. .. Palmerston N. Paraparaumu Patriotic Society.. .. Paraparaumu. Mayor of Petone’s Patriotic Distress Fund Petone. Mayor of Petone’s Wounded Soldiers Fund „ Raetihi and District Patriotic Fund .. Ractihi. Taihape Patriotic Committee .. .. Taihapc. Te Horo Self-denial League .. Te Horo. Turakina Patriotic Society .. .. Turakina. Waikanae and District Patriotic Committee .. .. .. .. Waikanae. Waitotara Patriotic Committee .. Waitotara. Wanganui Gun Club Patriotic Fund .. Wanganui. Waverley Patriotic Committee .. Waverley. British Red Cross and Order of St. John, Wellington .. .. .. Wellington. Dominion Belgian Relief Fund .. „ Mayor of Wellington’s Belgian Fund .. „ Mayor of Wellington’s Patriotic Fund .. „ Mayor of Wellington’s War Distress Fund „ Mayor of Wellington’s Wounded Soldiers, Sailors, and Dependants Fund .. „ Navy League British Sailors’ Dependants Fund .. .. .. .. „ New Zealand Railway Contingent’s Equipment and Sick and Wounded Soldiers Fund .. .. .. .. „ Railwaymen’s Belgian Relief Fund .. „ Salvation Army Fund.. .. .. „ Victoria University College War Fund .. „ Wellington Branch, New Zealand Patriotic Society .. .. .. .. „ Marlborough Provincial District. Marlborough Patriotic Fund .. .. Blenheim. Poor of Great Britain and Belgian Relief Fund .. .. .. .. „ Flaxbourne Branch, Marlborough Patriotic Fund .. .. .. .. Flaxbourne. Havelock Patriotic Society .. .. Havelock. Kaikoura Patriotic Fund .. .. Kaikoura.

Name of Society. Address. Pelorus Sound Sub-committee of Marlborough Patriotic Fund .. .. Nikau Bay. Sounds District Belgian Relief .. .. „ Okaramio Patriotic Society .. .. Okaramio. Seddon Branch, Marlborough Patriotic Fund .. .. .. .. Seddon. Rai Valley Wounded Soldiers Fund .. Timatanga. Nelson Provincial District. Dovedale Patriotic Relief Fund .. Awa. Bainham Branch, Collingwood District Patriotic and Recruiting Association .. Bainham. Brightwater Branch, Recruiting and Sick and Wounded Soldiers .. .. Brightwater. Granity Patriotic Fund .. .. Granity. Sick and Wounded Committee .. .. Karamea. Motueka Recruiting Association .. Motueka. Motueka Sick and Wounded Soldiers Fund „ Murchison Sick and Wounded Soldiers Fund .. .. .. .. Murchison. Navy League Fund for Widows and Orphans .. .. .. .. Nelson. Sick and Wounded Soldiers and their Dependants Fund .. .. .. „ Sick and Wounded Soldiers and their Dependants Fund .. .. .. Puponga. Local Defence Fund .. .. .. Reef ton. Sick and Wounded Soldiers and their Dependants Fund .. .. .. Richmond. Ladies’ Branch, Patriotic Association .. Rockville. Sick and Wounded Soldiers and their Dependants Association .. .. „ Takaka Patriotic League .. .. Takaka. Buller Patriotic Sick, Wounded, and Relief Association .. .. .. Westport. Westland Provincial District. Brunner Borough Patriotic Fund .. Brunnerton. Westland Patriotic Fund .. .. Hokitika. Ross Committee, Westland Patriotic Fund Ross. Runanga Patriotic League .. .. Runanga. Canterbury Provincial District. Ashburton County War Relief Fund .. Ashburton. Cheviot Ladies’ British, Belgian, and Patriotic Funds.. .. .. .. Cheviot. Belgian Agricultural Restoration Fund .. Christchurch Christchurch Press Company’s Funds .. „ Citizens’ Defence Corps .. .. ~ Navy League War Fund Account .. ~ Poor of Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgian Relief Fund .. .. .. „ St. John Ambulance Association Red Cross Fund .. .. .. „ Y.M.C.A. War Fund Darfield District Auxiliary War Fund .. Darfield. Mackenzie County Patriotic Committee .. Fairhe. Home and Empire League .. .. Geraldine. Greendalo District Patriotic Fund .. Greendale. Selwyn County Executive Patriotic Committee .. .. .. .. Hororata. Kaiapoi Patriotic Fund .. .. Kaiapoi. Kirwee Patriotic Committee .. .. Kirwee. Little River Patriotic Committee .. Little River. Orari Patriotic Committee .. .. Orari. Oxford Belgium Fund and Red Cross Association .. .. .. Oxford. Oxford County Patriotic Committee .. „ Rakaia Patriotic Committee .. .. Rakaia. Rangiora Patriotic Committee .. .. Rangiora. Tai Tapu Patriotic Society .. .. Tai Tapu. Poor of Great Britain, Ireland, and Belgian Relief Fund (Timaru Branch) .. Timaru. South Canterbury Patriotic War Relief Society .. .. .. .. „ Waimate Branch, South Canterbury Patriotic War Relief Society .. .. Waimate. Woodend Patriotic Committee .. .. Woodend. Yaldhurst Patriotic Committee.. .. Yaldhurst. Otago Provincial District. Alexandra Patriotic Committee .. Alexandra. Balclutha Patriotic Association .. Balclutha. Clyde Patriotic Committee .. .. Clyde.

Name of Society. Address. Cromwell Patriotic Association .. Cromwell. Dunedin Evening Star Relief Funds .. Dunedin. St. John Ambulance Association, Dunedin Centre .. .. .. „ Duntroon Red Cross and Belgian Relief and General Patriotic Funds .. .. Duntroon. Green Island Women’s Patriotic Association .. .. .. .. Green Island. Kaitangata Patriotic Committee .. Kaitangata. Lawrence Patriotic Fund .. .. Lawrence. Milton Patriotic Committee .. .. Milton. North Otago Patriotic Fund .. .. Oamaru. Oamaru Red Cross Society .. .. „ St. John Ambulance Brigade, Oamaru Division • • • • • • D The North Otago Soldiers Fund .. „ Outram Patriotic Committee .. .. Outram. Owaka and District Patriotic Society . . Owaka. Mount Benger Local Distress Fund .. Roxburgh. Mount Benger Patriotic Fund .. .. „ Tapanui Patriotic Committee .. .. Tapanui. Waikouaiti Women’s Patriotic Association Waikouaiti. Waitahuna Patriotic Committee .. Waitahuna. Southland Provincial District. Bluff Ladies’ Patriotic Guild .. .. Bluff. Bluff Patriotic Committee (Branch of Southland War Funds Association) . . „ Gore Citizens’ Defence Committee’s Funds Gore. Lumsden Patriotic Committee .. .. Lumsden. Mataura Patriotic and General Welfare . Committee.. .. .. .. Mataura. Wyndham Patriotic Fund .. .. Wyndham. General. I have also approved for the purposes of the said section all committees, branches, and sub-centres of or affiliated to the New Zealand Branch of the British Red Cross Society, Victoria League, or Lady Liverpool Funds throughout the Dominion. G. W. RUSSELL, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Persons leaving New Zealand for France.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 21st August, 1916. IT is hereby notified that persons leaving New Zealand for France must be in possession of passports, and such passports must be vised (endorsed) by the Consul for France at Auckland or the French Consular Agents at Wellington or Dunedin. In this connection it is necessary that the name of the port of disembarkation in France should be declared, in order that suoh information may be stated in the consular endorsement. It should further be noted thrt persons proposing to travel to France via England must, in addition to the above, have them vised at the Passport Bureau of the Consul-General for France at London or of the French Consulates at Liverpool, Southampton, or Folkestone. Persons failing to comply with these requirements will not be admitted into France. G. W. RUSSELL, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Hawks not to be deemed protected

LIVERPOOL, Governor ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of September, 1916.

Present : His Excellency the Governor in Council

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Animals Protection Act, 1908, as amended by the Animals Protection Amendment Act, 1910, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby suspend the operation of section ten of the said Animals Protection

Amendment Act, 1910, for the period ending on the thirty - lirst day of December, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, with respect to hawks of all species.

J. F. ANDREWS. Clerk of the Executive Council

Lands temporarily reserved.

LIVERPOOL, Governor

WHEREAS by the three - hundred - and - twenty - first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held undur pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned : And whereas by the sixty-ninth section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, it is further provided that the Governor may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of land acquired under the last-mentioned Act, provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments : Now. therefore, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands described in the Schedule hereunder written, for the purposes in the said Schedule specified at the end of the respective descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE. Auckland Land District. All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 acres 1 rood 21 perches, more or less, being Allotment 376, Parish of Waimana. Bounded towards the north by Allotment 333 of the said Waimana Parish, 932-1 links; towards the east and south-west by Allotment 363 of the aforesaid parish, 863-2 and 284-3 links respectively; towards the west generally by a road reserve along the Waimana River, 452-2 and 585-2 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on plan marked L. and S. 1/355, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (Auckland Plan No. 13979.) For a public recreation-ground. Also all that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 1 rood, more or less, being Sections 43 and 44, Block XIV, Wairere Survey District (Matamata Settlement). Bounded towards the north by Section 23, Wairere Survey District, 500 links; towards the east by a public road, 350 links; towards the south by Section 49, Wairere Survey District, 250 links ; again towards the east by the aforesaid Section 49, 100 links ; again towards the south by Section 45,. Wairere Survey District, 250 links ; and towards the west generally by Section 23 aforesaid, 500 links : be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 1/541, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. (Auckland Plan 18309). For a public recreation-ground. Hawke’s Bay Land District. All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, containing by admeasurement 3 roods 10-9 perches, more or less, being Section 11, Town of Motu Extension No. 1, Block 11, Motu Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Whinray Road, 150 links; towards the north-east by Section 10 of said Motu Extension No. 1, 523-01 links; towards the south-east by a public road, 156-65 links; and towards the south-west by Sections 12 and 13 of said Motu Extension No. 1, 568-18 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less. As the same is delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 6/7/18, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For a site for a police-station. Southland Land District. All that area in the Southland Land District, containing by estimation 2 acres, and known as Section 78, Block XVII, Town of Mataura Bridge, being an island in the Mataura River, lying to the north-west of Section 76, Block XVII, Town of Mataura Bridge aforesaid. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/1615, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon coloured red. For the improvement and protection of the Mataura River.

Also all that area in the Southland Land District, containing by estimation 6 acres, and known as Section 10, Block VIII, Town of Mataura Bridge, being an island in the Mataura River, lying to the north-west of Blocks 111 and VIII, Town of Mataura Bridge aforesaid. As the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked L. and S. 22/IGISA, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon bordered red. For the improvement and protection of the Mataura River. As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen. V 11. D. BELL, For Minister of Lands

Clerks of Licensing Committees appointed. Department of Justice, Wellington, Ist September, 1916. HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Sergeant William Arthur Matthews to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Waimarino, vice F. Mitchell; and James Jordan to be Clerk of the Licensing Committee for the District of Napier, vice F. G. Hutton. ROBERT McNAB, Minister of Justice.

MILITARY SERVICE ACT, 1916. Enrolment of Expeditionary Force Reserve. BY Proclamations dated respectively Ist and 2nd September, 1916, the enrolment of the Reserve is directed. Enrolment must be made not later than 15th September (First Division) or 16th September (Second Division). The Reserve consists of men not less than twenty and under forty-six years of age. The Reserve Register is based on the National Register. Men not already registered must supply enrolment-cards not later than 16th September. Men already registered need not supply an enrolment-card, but must, not later than 16th September, notify present address if place of abode has changed since registration. Men reaching military age, or arriving in Dominion after 16th September, must supply enrolment-cards within fourteen days thereafter. Changes of abode after enrolment must be notified within fourteen days. The Act makes the Reservist’s obligation to do any of the above things a personal one, and he is not relieved by information previously given to recruiting officer or committee. Men not enrolled may be sent straight to camp. Men who fail to notify change of address may become liable on a charge of desertion. Employers of Reservists not enrolled, or of deserters, are liable to heavy fines or imprisonment. For protection of Reservists certificates of enrolment will be issued as soon as practicable after receipt of application on form provided. Call at nearest post-office for forms, information, and assistance. Onus of proof in every case is on the defendant. MALCOLM FRASER, Government Statistician.