Nov. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3511

District Engineer appointed.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 20th November, 1911.

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

CHARLES EDWARD ARMSTRONG

as District Engineer in the Public Works Department, as from the 1st November, 1911.

R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Resignations, and Retirements of Territorial Force Officers.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 10th November, 1911.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, transfers, resignations, and retirements of the undermentioned Territorial Force Officers :—

1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry).
Lance-Corporal Francis Davison to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 21st September, 1911.

2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.
Captain Henry Haseler resigns his commission. Dated 1st August, 1911.

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.
Lieutenant Samuel Charles Schofield to be Captain. Dated 21st June, 1911.

4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.
Captain Alfred Tattersall to be Major. Dated 16th May, 1911.
Captain James George Berry is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 30th October, 1911.
Captain Augustine Neville Norton, Reserve of Officers, resigns his commission. Dated 30th October, 1911.

8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.
Vincent Fosbery Nancarrow, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant, to complete establishment. Dated 9th August, 1911.

9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.
The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants, supernumerary to the establishment :—
Montgomery Owen Grainger, Esq. Dated 10th August, 1911.
Noel Gordon Grant, Esq. Dated 3rd October, 1911.
2nd Lieutenant Charles Robert Spragg to be Lieutenant, vice Bolton, resigned. Dated 30th October, 1911.
Lieutenant William Charles Page is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 30th October, 1911.

The undermentioned officers resign their commissions. Dated 30th October, 1911 :—
Lieutenant Felix Stuart Hindmarsh Bolton.
Lieutenant Joseph Ward Sturton.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery.
Major Duncan Robertson Menzies, Reserve of Officers, to be Major. Dated 9th April, 1909.
Captain Percival Beaumont Greenhough to be Major, vice Hazard, promoted. Dated 15th July, 1911.
Sergeant Howard Burnett Rishworth to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 28th August, 1911.

Corps of New Zealand Engineers.
Sergeant Sydney William Paine to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 14th September, 1911.

1st (Canterbury) Regiment.
Ernest Thornton Sugden to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 31st July, 1911.
2nd Lieutenant Cecil Russell is transferred to the Unattached List for service with the Senior Cadets, under the provisions of paragraph 88 (b), General Regulations, 1911. Dated 30th October, 1911.

2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment.
Gerald Dighton Bailey, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 12th September, 1911.
Captain James Houlker, Reserve of Officers, is transferred to the Unattached List for service with the Senior Cadets, under the provisions of paragraph 88 (b), General Regulations, 1911. Dated 30th October, 1911.

3rd (Auckland) Regiment (“Countess of Ranfurly’s Own”).
The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants :—
Wallace Charles Ivan Sumner, Esq. Dated 23rd September, 1911.

Sergeant John Murdoch McKenzie, to complete establishment. Dated 13th October, 1911.
Corporal Henry James Gillmore, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 13th October, 1911.

5th Regiment (Wellington Rifles).
Sergeant John Richmond Cowles to be 2nd Lieutenant, to complete establishment. Dated 4th April, 1911.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants, supernumerary to the establishment :—
Colour-Sergeant Guy Campion Felton. Dated 4th April, 1911.
David Alexander Kenny, Esq. Dated 5th April, 1911.
Arthur Robert Ward Tate, Esq. Dated 6th April, 1911.
Captain James William Hutchen is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 9th October, 1911.

The undermentioned are transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 30th October, 1911 :—
Lieutenant Harold George Lewis, late Active List (Unattached).
Lieutenant Cyril George Collins, late Active List (Unattached).

6th (Hauraki) Regiment.
Quartermaster-Sergeant John Hubbard to be Lieutenant. Dated 23rd September, 1911.
Gavin Melville Abbot, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 26th September, 1911.
2nd Lieutenant Alexander James Walker resigns his commission. Dated 26th September, 1911.

7th Regiment (Wellington West Coast Rifles).
The undermentioned Captains to be Majors. Dated 30th October, 1911 :—
James McNaught.
Henry Spencer Gray Harper.
Lieutenant Edward Percy Cox is transferred to the 11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). Dated 30th October, 1911.

The undermentioned are transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 30th October, 1911 :—
Captain George Innes.
Lieutenant Charles Louisson.

8th Regiment (Southland Rifles).
Lieutenant Thomas Benjamin Salmon, v.d., retires under the provisions of paragraph 118, General Regulations, 1911, and with permission to wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 28th August, 1911.

9th Regiment (Wellington East Coast Rifles).
2nd Lieutenant Edward Robinson Wilson resigns his commission. Dated 10th October, 1911.
The seniority of Captain George Walter Cockroft is 7th December, 1910, and not as stated in New Zealand Gazette of the 24th August, 1911.

11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles).
Lieutenant Edward Percy Cox, from the 7th Regiment (West Coast Rifles), to be Lieutenant. Dated 30th October, 1911.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants :—
Colour-Sergeant Frank Locke Hartnell. Dated 22nd August, 1911.
Corporal Thomas Linton Buxton. Dated 21st September, 1911.

The undermentioned Lieutenants resign their commissions :—
William Henry Beadle. Dated 19th September, 1911.
Harold John Moule Thomson. Dated 20th September, 1911.
Captain Walter Wright is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 30th October, 1911.

13th (North Canterbury) Regiment.
George William Reginald Osborne, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 1st September, 1911.

14th Regiment (South Otago Rifles).
William Wilson Turner, Esq., to be Captain. Dated 30th October, 1911.
Lieutenant Malcolm John Morrison, late Otago University Officers’ Training Corps, to be Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 7th September, 1910.

15th (North Auckland) Regiment.
The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants :—
Eric Arnold Temple Perkins, Esq. Dated 14th September, 1911.
Alfred James Powley, Esq. Dated 14th September, 1911.