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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 90.

Taranaki Rifle Volunteers.
Walter Harold Fletcher to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 2nd June, 1909.

Otago Hussar Volunteers.
John Black to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 1st September, 1909.

No. 3 Company, Auckland Division, New Zealand Garrison Artillery Volunteers.
Frank Henry Ross Jackson to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 1st September, 1909.

Temuka Rifle Volunteers.
William Jeffries to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 1st September, 1909.

Otago Hussar Volunteers.
David Brett Shand to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 1st September, 1909.

Popotunoa Rifle Volunteers.
James Steven to be Lieutenant. Date of commission, 1st September, 1909.

1st Regiment, Otago Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
William McGregor Turnbull to be Adjutant, with rank of Lieutenant. Date of commission, 1st September, 1909.

No. 5 Company (Wellington), Field Ambulance.
Ernest Matthew Finlayson to be Quartermaster, with rank of Lieutenant. Date of commission, 15th September, 1909.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officers promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1909.

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

Hawera Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Walter Wright to be Captain. Date of commission, 2nd June, 1909.

Popotunoa Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant John Robert Garden to be Captain. Date of commission, 1st September, 1909.

3rd Regiment, Wellington (Manawatu) Mounted Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant (Adjutant) Harry Thomas Palmer to be Captain. Date of commission, 1st September, 1909.

A Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery Volunteers.
Lieutenant William Livingstone Hatchwell Burgess to be Captain. Date of commission, 11th October, 1909.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned, and appointed to Regimental Staff.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1909.

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

Lieutenant (Pay- and Quarter-master) GEORGE JAMES ROBERT DORMOR, 1st Battalion, Auckland Infantry Volunteers (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own),

and to approve of his appointment as Pay- and Quartermaster to the 4th Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers, with rank of Lieutenant, and with effect from 5th August, 1909.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned, and posted to Active List (Unattached).

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1909.

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

Honorary Captain GEORGE JAMES RASTRICK (Pay- and Quarter-master), 3rd Regiment, Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers,

and to approve that his name be placed on the Active List (Unattached), with rank of Captain, and with effect from 28th September, 1909.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Volunteer Officer resigned, and posted to Active List (Unattached).

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1909.

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

Major JOHN FINDLAY, 2nd Regiment, Otago Mounted Rifle Volunteers,

and to approve that his name be posted on the Active List (Unattached), with rank of Major; and with effect from 25th May, 1909.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Meritorious Service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 468, General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, 1906, of the award of the Meritorious Service Medal to

No. 154, Sergeant JOHN MURRAY, Royal New Zealand Artillery.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Meritorious Service Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1909.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 468, General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, 1906, of the award of the Meritorious Service Medal to

No. 150, Quartermaster-Sergeant JOHN DONCASTER, Royal New Zealand Artillery.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Amendments to Regulations re Commissions in British Army.

Defence Office,
Wellington, N.Z., 22nd October, 1909.

THE following amendments, made by Army Order No. 219 of 1909, to the Regulations under which Commissions in the British Army may be obtained by University Candidates and Officers of Colonial Military Forces, are republished for general information.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

[D. 09/3046A.]

Commissions in the Army.—The following amendments will be made to the syllabus of subjects for a leaving-certificate, and for the qualifying examination in Appendix II of the following regulations:—

(a.) Regulations under which commissions in the British army may be obtained by officers of colonial military forces, issued with Army Order No. 164 of 1907.

(b.) Regulations under which commissions in the army may be obtained by university candidates, issued with Army Order No. 191 of 1907.

Under “Elementary Mathematics, Practical Measurements”: In line 4, after “dimensions,” insert “(rectilinear figures, circles),” and in line 6, after “dimensions,” insert “(solids bounded by not more than six plane faces, spheres, right circular cones).”