APRIL 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1229

Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, Retirements, and Transfers of New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force Officers.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 28th March, 1912.

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

New Zealand Staff Corps.

Captain Robert Carpenter, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, Auckland District, retires with the honorary rank of Major. Dated 30th March, 1912.

1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry).

The undermentioned officers resign their commissions :—

Captain George Edward Rhodes. Dated 14th February, 1912.

Lieutenant William Hawkins. Dated 11th February, 1912.

2nd Lieutenant Kenneth James Sinclair Murchison. Dated 23rd February, 1912.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas Morton is transferred to the Unattached List (b) for service with the Senior Cadets. Dated 11th March, 1912.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants :—

John Coe, vice Hawkins, resigned. Dated 11th February, 1912.

Horace Drummond Bailey, to complete establishment. Dated 11th March, 1912.

Supernumerary 2nd Lieutenant Francis Davison is absorbed into the establishment.

Corporal Leslie Robert Macfarlane to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 11th March, 1912.

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Sergeant-major William Harold Walters to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 11th March, 1912.

Stewart Whalley, Esq., to be Honorary Lieutenant and Bandmaster. Dated 11th March, 1912.

4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Robert John Nicholson resigns his commission. Dated 1st September, 1911.

Cornelius James, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 11th March, 1912.

5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars).

Lieutenant William Kerr resigns his commission. Dated 5th February, 1912.

9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.

Corporal Alan Standish Wilder to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 11th March, 1912.

10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant John Schaw Rutherfurd is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 11th March, 1912.

New Zealand Field Artillery.

Captain Frank William Graham Herdman is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 11th March, 1912.

2nd Lieutenant William Janson to be Lieutenant, to complete establishment. Dated 11th March, 1912.

Victor Rogers, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 11th March, 1912.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery.

Major Frederick John Courtney to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 21st January, 1912.

The undermentioned officers resign their commissions :—

Captain Francis Potter. Dated 23rd February, 1912.

Captain William Hobbard Morton. Dated 28th February, 1912.

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the Unattached List, under the provisions of paragraph 88 (a), General Regulations, 1911. Dated 11th March, 1912 :—

Major William James Strong.

Major John Archibald Paul Fredric.

Lieutenant David White.

Lieutenant Frederick Walter Skelsey.

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the 4th Regiment (Otago Rifles). Dated 11th March, 1912 :—

Lieutenant Peter Doull.

Lieutenant David Cooke.

Lieutenant (Pay- and Quarter-master) James Dickson resigns his commission. Dated 19th February, 1912.

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 11th March, 1912 :—

Lieutenant Walter Alexander Carew, with the rank of Captain. Dated 11th March, 1912.

Lieutenant Ernest Claude Rawnsley. Dated 11th March, 1912.

Arthur John Green, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 11th March, 1912.

1st (Canterbury) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Charlton Conrad Ziesler resigns his commission. Dated 11th March, 1912.

3rd (Auckland) Regiment (“Countess of Ranfurly’s Own”).

2nd Lieutenant Herbert Ivan Jacobi resigns his commission. Dated 15th February, 1912.

Eric Hardwick Tayler, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 11th March, 1912.

4th Regiment (Otago Rifles).

Lieutenant Peter Doull, from the New Zealand Garrison Artillery, to be Captain, under the provisions of paragraph 125, General Regulations, 1911. Dated 11th March, 1912.

Lieutenant David Cooke, from the New Zealand Garrison Artillery, to be Lieutenant.

5th Regiment (Wellington Rifles).

Major Charles Harcourt Turner to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Duthie, transferred to Reserve of Officers. Dated 21st January, 1912.

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the 2nd Battalion 9th Regiment (Wellington East Coast Rifles). Dated 22nd December, 1911 :—

Captain Fleming Ross.

Lieutenant Charles John Hollard.

Lieutenant Charles Lawrance Treadwell.

Lieutenant Francis Evenson Beamish, Reserve of Officers, is transferred to the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps. Dated 11th March, 1912.

6th (Hauraki) Regiment.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 11th March, 1912 :—

Colour-Sergeant Francis Walpole Keller.

Leonard Etheridge Martin, Esq.

7th Regiment (Wellington West Coast Rifles).

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 11th March, 1912 :—

Sergeant William Peachey Aldridge.

Robert Davies Hardie, Esq.

8th Regiment (Southland Rifles).

Captain James Erskine Watson to be Major. Dated 17th March, 1911.

9th Regiment (Wellington East Coast Rifles), 2nd Battalion.

Major Alexander Burnett Charters to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 21st January, 1912.

The undermentioned officers are transferred from the 5th Regiment (Wellington Rifles). Dated 11th March, 1912 :—

Captain Fleming Ross to be Captain.

Lieutenant Charles John Hollard to be Lieutenant.

Lieutenant Charles Lawrance Treadwell to be Lieutenant.

Lieutenant William Saunders Cooper, from the Unattached List (b), to be Lieutenant.

Arthur Sidney Todd Butler, Esq., to be Lieutenant.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 11th March, 1912 :—

Sergeant-major Ernest Harold Morton.

Frederick Hector Edward Morgan, Esq.

Douglas Leslie Robertson, Esq.

Hugh Halcombe Godfrey, Esq.

Edmund Robinson Wilson, Esq.