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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

Volunteer Officers promoted.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the promotion of the undermentioned officers:—

Taranaki Guards Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Charles Thomas Mills to be Captain. Date of commission, 7th December, 1904.

Waihi Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Harold James Rollinson to be Captain. Date of commission, 7th September, 1904.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officers appointed.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments:—

Piako Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Robert Candlish Allen to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th September, 1904.

Waihi Rifle Volunteers.
Thomas Clarke to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th September, 1904.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officers resigned.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commissions held by the undermentioned officers:—

Hastings Rifle Volunteers.
Captain Edward Varley Hudson. Date of resignation, 23rd November, 1904.

Onehunga Rifle Volunteers.
Captain William Nepean McIntosh. Date of resignation, 22nd November, 1904.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officer promoted.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the promotion of the undermentioned officer:—

Blenheim Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Edward Stone Parker to be Captain. Date of commission, 7th December, 1904.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officers appointed.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments:—

I Battery (Westport), New Zealand Field Artillery Volunteers.
Anthony Crispe Cottrell to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th December, 1904.

1st Westland Rifle Volunteers.
William Winchester to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th December, 1904.

Blenheim Rifle Volunteers.
George Winifred O’Sullivan to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 7th December, 1904.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officers resigned.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commissions held by the undermentioned officers:—

Stratford Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Honorary Chaplain the Reverend Noble Dale Boyes. Date of resignation, 3rd September, 1904.

Timaru City Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Sidney Harcourt Arthur. Date of resignation, 8th February, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Volunteer Officer resigned from Rifle Volunteer Corps, and appointed to Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation of the commission held by

Captain Ernest Charles Wilmot Porter, Queenstown Rifle Volunteers,

and to approve, under Paragraph 57, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, of his appointment as Captain to the Murihiku Mounted Rifle Volunteers, and with effect from 24th January, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Mounted Rifle Volunteer Corps disbanded.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 26th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under clause 6, (2), “The Defence Act, 1886,” of the disbandment of the undermentioned corps:—

Otaki Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

Date of disbandment, 18th January, 1905.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Award of the Imperial Long-service and Good-conduct Medal.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under Warrant dated 22nd April, 1898, published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 30, of the 28th April, 1898, of the award of the Imperial Long-service and Good-conduct Medal to

No. 300, Gunner Netterville Charles Barron, Royal New Zealand Artillery.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Applications for Nomination to Cadetships in the British Navy (1905).
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 21st February, 1905.

IT is requested that all applications for nomination (for the year 1905) to cadetships in the various branches of the British navy, under the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 15th September, 1904, may be sent in to this office at once.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.

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Clerical Cadet, Defence Department, appointed.
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Defence Office,
Wellington, 27th February, 1905.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under section 4 of “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” of the appointment of

Master David Stanley Lyons

as a clerical cadet in the Defence Department. Appointment to date from the 24th October, 1901.

ALBERT PITT,
For Minister of Defence.