APRIL 11. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1283

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

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 6th April, 1912.

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

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Major James Gladwin Wynyard, from the Reserve of
Officers, to be Major. Dated 25th March, 1912.

The undermentioned officers resign their commissions :-
Captain Ernest Adam Vipond. Dated 2nd March, 1912.
2nd Lieutenant Gordon Keir Hamilton. Dated 29th
December, 1911.
Supernumerary 2nd Lieutenant Bertram Lush is absorbed
into the establishment, vice Hamilton, resigned.

New Zealand Field Artillery.

2nd Lieutenant Gilbert Edward Archey, from the Un-
attached List (b) to be 2nd Lieutenant.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery.

Lieutenant James Henderson Crawford to be Captain, to
complete establishment. Dated 11th March, 1912.
Lieutenant Cyprian Bridge Brereton is transferred to the
12th (Nelson) Regiment. Dated 25th March, 1912.
2nd Lieutenant William Howard Johnson is absorbed into
the establishment, vice McKellar, transferred.

New Zealand Railway Corps.

2nd Lieutenant Augustine Stuart Henderson to be Lieu-
tenant. Dated 27th November, 1911.

2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment.

Douglas Playfair Fraser, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant.
Dated 25th March, 1912.

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

Lieutenant Herbert Swainson Atkinson resigns his com-
mission. Dated 29th February, 1912.

5th Regiment (Wellington Rifles).

Lieutenant George Ernest Simeon is transferred to the
Unattached List (b) for service with the Senior Cadets.
Dated 25th March, 1912.
Lionel Lancelot Hitchings, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant,
supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 25th
March, 1912.

6th (Hauraki) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Stephen Shepherd Allen to be Lieutenant,
vice Merrielees, promoted. Dated 27th November, 1911.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants, super-
numerary to the establishment. Dated 25th March,
1912 :-
Jeremiah William Melville, Esq.
Robert Nicoll Morpeth, Esq.

8th Regiment (Southland Rifles).

Sergeant Peter Mackenzie to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated
11th March, 1912.

10th Regiment (North Otago Rifles).

Jules Caesar Malfroy, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated
25th March, 1912.

12th (Nelson) Regiment.

Lieutenant Cyprian Bridge Brereton, from the New Zea-
land Garrison Artillery, to be Lieutenant under the
provisions of paragraph 125, General Regulations, 1911.

14th Regiment (South Otago Rifles).

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the Un-
attached List (b) for service with the Senior Cadets.
Dated 25th March, 1912 :-
Lieutenant Gilbert Simpson.
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Carson.

15th (North Auckland) Regiment.

The date of seniority of Major James Preston Stevenson
is 17th March, 1911, and not as stated in New Zealand
Gazette of the 14th March, 1912.
Nowlan Francis Knight, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant,
supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 25th March,
1912.

16th (Waikato) Regiment.

The date of seniority of Major Roy Cumming is 17th
March, 1911, and not as stated in New Zealand Gazette
of the 14th March, 1912.

New Zealand Signal Corps.

Sergeant John Caskie McDonald to be 2nd Lieutenant,
supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 25th March,
1912.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

Captain Charles Edward Bucknill, from the Reserve of
Officers, to be Captain. Dated 25th March, 1912.
Charles Ernest Howden, M.R.C.S., Eng., to be Lieu-
tenant. Dated 25th March, 1912.

Unattached List (b).
(Senior Cadets.)

The undermentioned lieutenants resign their commis-
sions :-
James Milne Adam. Dated 4th March, 1912.
Colin John Gray. Dated 7th March, 1912.
Hugh Scott Hannah. Dated 9th March, 1912.
Lieutenant George Ernest Simeon, from the 5th Regiment
(Wellington Rifles), to be Captain. Dated 25th March,
1912.
Lieutenant William Mackenzie, from the Reserve of
Officers, to be Lieutenant.
Lieutenant Gilbert Simpson, from the 14th Regiment
(South Otago Rifles), to be Lieutenant. Dated 25th
March, 1912.
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Carson, from the 14th Regiment
(South Otago Rifles), to be Lieutenant. Dated 25th
March, 1912.
2nd Lieutenant Gilbert Edward Archey is transferred to
the New Zealand Field Artillery. Dated 25th March,
1912.

The undermentioned are appointed for service with the
Senior Cadets under the provisions of paragraph 88 (b),
General Regulations, 1911, with the rank specified. Dated
25th March, 1912 :-

Captain.
William Hartshone, Esq.

Lieutenants.
Robert Charles Moore, Esq.
Spencer Gannon Smith, Esq.
Percy Braithwaite, Esq.
Hector Campbell Mackenzie, Esq.
Clive Heathcote Falk Statham, Esq.
Thomas Gilbert Robertson, Esq.
Owen Vivian Davies, Esq.

2nd Lieutenants.
Graham Alexander Mills, Esq.
George Arthur Reginald McKoy, Esq.
Ethelbert Joseph James Welch, Esq.
Robert Prain Boyne, Esq.
Henry Newell Waymouth, Esq.
Henry Alexander Callander, Esq.
Hugh Liddon Richards, Esq.
Ivan Scott Orbell, Esq.
Nicol Cook, Esq.
Frank Leslie Hunt, Esq.
George Edington Waite, Esq.
Cedric Rolfe Sargood, Esq.
Raymond Murray Watson, Esq.
William James Bevis, Esq.
Robert Turnbull, Esq.
Francis Dennison Maurice, Esq.
Henry White Oak Slater, Esq.
Frederick James Brooks, Esq.
Henry Eugene Voyce, Esq.
Lorenz Wilfred Meuli, Esq.

ARTHUR M. MYERS,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service
Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 6th April, 1912.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary
Forces Long-service Medal to

Colonel JAMES ALLEN, New Zealand Garrison Artil-
lery,

he having a total service to the 20th March, 1912, entitling
him thereto of twenty years three hundred and thirty days.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.