Oct. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1929

Lieutenant Frederick George Tucker to be Captain.
Lieutenant John Cameron to be Captain.
Joseph Cashmore Freeth to be Lieutenant.
Piers Lloyd Tudor to be Lieutenant.
Edgar Warren Nelson to be Lieutenant.
Francis James Ryan (since deceased) to be Lieutenant.
Date of above commissions, 15th March, 1901.
Lieutenant Robert Stevenson to be Captain.
Lieutenant John Findlay to be Captain.
Date of above commissions, 23rd March, 1901.
George Bertram Banks to be Lieutenant.
Vernon Montgomerie Hutton to be Lieutenant.
Sydney Herbert William Crawford to be Lieutenant.
James Lewis Taylor to be Lieutenant.
Date of above commissions, 25th March, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Additional Member of Local Military Examination Board appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Captain ARTHUR GEORGE ELLTON BINGLEY,
Adjutant Canterbury Volunteer District (His Majesty’s Princess Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regiment), a member of the Local Board of Examination in New Zealand Volunteer Force.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Commissions in New Zealand Militia antedated.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the commission of

Quartermaster and Lieutenant THOMAS JOHN GARDINER,
which appears in the New Zealand Gazette No. 41, dated 25th April, 1901, as dating from 24th December, 1900, to be as from 2nd December, 1900; also that the commission of

Lieutenant PERCY JOHN OVERTON,
which appears in the same Gazette as dating from 6th April, 1901, be as from 23rd March, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignations of the commissions held by the under-mentioned officers:—

Seddon Horse Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Captain John Iredale. Date of resignation, 3rd August, 1901.

No. 1 Company, Waikato Mounted Rifle Volunteers (Hamilton).
Honorary Veterinary Surgeon F. Kilrae Kinloch. Resignation to date from 1st June, 1901.

No. 2 Company, New Zealand Native Rifle Volunteers (Auckland).
Lieutenant Charles John Francis Ratjen. Date of resignation, 22nd July, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer retired.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the retirement of the under-mentioned officer from the Unattached Active List of New Zealand Volunteers, as from 31st August, 1901:—

Lieutenant NEIL STEWART (North Otago).

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Amendment of Volunteer Regulation.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to amend paragraph No. 213 of the Regulations for Volunteer Forces of New Zealand by adding the words “when possible” after the word “headquarters.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Services of a Volunteer Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under clause 39, (1), “The Defence Act, 1886,” the services of the under-mentioned Volunteer corps:—

Castlecliff Rifle Volunteers,
with headquarters at Castlecliff, Wanganui. Date of acceptance, 10th June, 1901.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers transferred from the Unattached Active List to the Honorary Unattached List, New Zealand Volunteers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the transfer of the under-mentioned officers from the Unattached Active List, New Zealand Volunteers, to the Honorary Unattached List of New Zealand Volunteers, as from 31st August, 1901:—

Captain and Quartermaster Moritz Bowron (Canterbury).
Captain and Quartermaster Thomas C. Self (Auckland).
Captain Ernest H. Wilmot (Otago).
Captain William Ogilvie Duthie (Otago).
Captain James Hogg (Otago).
Captain William White (North Otago).
Lieutenant George Stoddart (Otago).
Lieutenant George Edward Tennet (Otago).
Lieutenant Charles Melville Brooks (Otago).

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Corps attached to Battalion.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under paragraphs 211 and 213, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of the addition of the under-mentioned cycle corps in the Wellington Military District to the “1st Battalion, Wellington Rifle Volunteers,” with effect from 1st August, 1901:—

Wellington Volunteer Cycle Corps (Wellington).

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Amendment, Page 102, Rifle and Carbine Exercises, 1900.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1901.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve that members of the Volunteer corps may be allowed to fire the following sectional practices this year, as an alternative to “Volley and Independent Firing,” page 102, Rifle and Carbine Exercises, 1900, for capitation purposes, on suitable ranges—i.e., those provided with disappearing canvas targets. Prizes for volley and independent firing to be awarded only on results of these new practices.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.