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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 48.

Canterbury Native Rifle Volunteers.
Lieutenant Cecil Lyttelton Hawkins to be Captain. Date of commission, 1st December, 1909.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1910.

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

2nd Battalion Otago Rifles.
The Reverend Robert Middleton Ryburn to be Honorary Chaplain. Date of commission, 9th April, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officer promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 137 (a), General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, 1906, of the promotion of

Reverend FRANK DUNNAGE (Honorary Chaplain, Fourth Class) to the rank of Major (Honorary Chaplain, Third Class),

and with effect from 1st March, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officer promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 137 (a), General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, 1906, of the promotion of

Reverend GEORGE MACMURRAY (Honorary Chaplain, Fourth Class) to the rank of Major (Honorary Chaplain, Third Class),

and with effect from 1st March, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officer promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 137 (a), General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, 1906, of the promotion of

Reverend HARRY STOCKER (Honorary Chaplain, Fourth Class) to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel (Honorary Chaplain, Second Class),

and with effect from 1st March, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1910.

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

New Zealand Medical Corps.
Captain William Allan Chapple. Date of resignation, 11th March, 1910.

Carterton Rifles.
Lieutenant William Toomath. Date of resignation, 1st April, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1910.

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

Geraldine Mounted Rifles.
Lieutenant John Christopher Rolleston. Date of resignation, 20th April, 1910.
Lieutenant William Henry Orbell. Date of resignation, 25th April, 1910.

Zealandia Rifles.
Lieutenant Frederick William Fallows. Date of resignation, 26th April, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

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

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1910.

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

Lieutenant FRANCIS DOMINICK GAFFANEY, Irish Rifles,

and to approve that his name be placed on the Active List (Unattached), with rank of Lieutenant, and with effect from 1st March, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

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

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1910.

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

Captain (Adjutant) JOHN PETER OAKES, Canterbury Division, New Zealand Garrison Artillery,

and to approve that his name be placed on the Active List (Unattached), with rank of Captain, and with effect from 19th April, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

New Zealand Militia Officers posted to the Retired List.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve that the names of the undermentioned officers, whose ages exceed sixty-five years, be struck off the List of Officers for the New Zealand Militia, and that they be posted to the Retired List, with their present rank, with effect from 11th May, 1910.

New Zealand Militia.
Major SAMUEL CHARLES SCHOFIELD.
Major WILLIAM NORRIS FRANKLYN.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Territorial Unit Disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th May, 1910.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, in accordance with section 6 (b) of the Defence Act, 1908, of the disbandment of the undermentioned corps :—

North Dunedin Rifles.
With headquarters at Dunedin. Date of disbandment, 27th April, 1910.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.