APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1349

Royal New Zealand Artillery Officers promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the promotion of the undermentioned
officers :—
Royal New Zealand Artillery.
Lieutenant Rayner Barrington Smythe to be Captain.
Date of commission, 20th January, 1911.
Lieutenant Sydney George Sandle to be Captain. Date
of commission, 20th January, 1911.
GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officers promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the promotion of the undermentioned
officers :—
12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles.
Captain George Hepburn Stewart, from the Kelso Mounted
Rifles, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, with effect from the
17th March, 1911.
15th (North Auckland) Regiment.
Captain Thomas Herbert Steadman, from the Active List
(Unattached), to be Lieutenant-Colonel, with effect from
the 17th March, 1911.
16th (Waikato) Regiment.
Major George Barclay, V.D., from the Active List (Un-
attached), to be Lieutenant-Colonel, with effect from
the 17th March, 1911.
GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Territorial Regiments grouped into Brigades.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve, in accordance with section 6 (a) of the
Defence Act, 1909, to group the undermentioned regiments
into brigades, as shown below, and with effect from the
17th March, 1911 :—
Auckland Mounted Brigade.
3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.
4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.
11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.
Wellington Mounted Brigade.
2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.
6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles.
9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.
Canterbury Mounted Brigade.
1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry).
8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.
10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles.
Otago Mounted Brigade.
5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars).
7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles.
12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles.
Auckland Infantry Brigade.
3rd (Auckland) Regiment ("Countess of Ranfurly's
Own").
6th (Hauraki) Regiment.
15th (North Auckland) Regiment.
16th (Waikato) Regiment.
Wellington Infantry Brigade.
5th Regiment (Wellington Rifles).
7th Regiment (Wellington West Coast Rifles).
9th Regiment (Wellington East Coast Rifles).
11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles).
Canterbury Infantry Brigade.
1st (Canterbury) Regiment.
13th (North Canterbury) Regiment.
2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment.
12th (Nelson) Regiment.
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Otago Infantry Brigade.
4th Regiment (Otago Rifles).
8th Regiment (Southland Rifles).
10th Regiment (North Otago Rifles).
14th Regiment (South Otago Rifles).
GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officers promoted and appointed to Command of Brigades.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the promotion and appointment of the
undermentioned officers in the Territorial Forces of New
Zealand, and with effect from the 17th March, 1911 :—
Lieutenant-Colonel William Douthwaite Holgate
to be Colonel to command the Auckland Mounted Brigade.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Anderson Chaffey, V.D.,
to be Colonel to command the Canterbury Mounted Bri-
gade.
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Cowie Nichols
to be Colonel to command the Otago Mounted Brigade.
Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Hamilton Russell
to be Colonel to command the Wellington Mounted Rifles.
Major Charles Thomas Major, D.S.O.,
to be Colonel to command the Auckland Infantry Brigade.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Alexander Day, V.D.,
to be Colonel to command the Canterbury Infantry Bri-
gade.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Robinson Smith, V.D.,
to be Colonel to command the Otago Infantry Brigade.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Ward Tate
to be Colonel to command the Wellington Infantry Bri-
gade.
GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Territorial Force Officer appointed.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the following appointment :—
New Zealand Medical Corps.
Charles Campbell Jenkins to be Captain. Date of com-
mission, 3rd March, 1911.
GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Trustee, Petone Drill-shed Reserve, resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 12th April, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept, under Part V of the Defence Act, 1908,
the resignation of
Lieutenant Harry Stuart Norton Robinson, No. 2
Company, Wellington Division of Garrison Artillery,
as a Trustee of the Petone Drill-shed Reserve. Date of
resignation, 28th March, 1911.
GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.

Appointments of Trustees of Drill-shed cancelled.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 15th April, 1911.
HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
cancel, under Part V of the Defence Act, 1908,
the appointments of Trustees to the New Plymouth Drill-
shed Reserve, published in the New Zealand Gazette
No. 5, of the 21st January, 1904, and No. 60, of the 29th
June, 1905, as from the 15th day of April, 1911.
GEO. FOWLDS,
Acting Minister of Defence.