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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, Retirements, and Transfers of Royal New Zealand Artillery Permanent Staff and Territorial Force Officers.

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Department of Defence,
Wellington, 25th May, 1912.

HIS Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to confer upon the following regiments the honour of becoming their Colonel-in-Chief. Dated 8th March, 1912.

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.
1st (Canterbury) Regiment.

His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve of the 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles being designated as “Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles. Dated 8th March, 1912.

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

The Regiment of Royal New Zealand Artillery.

The undermentioned officers, on completion of their period of probation, have been confirmed in their appointments. Dated 3rd April, 1912.

2nd Lieutenant James Macdonald Richmond.
2nd Lieutenant John Lancelot Harcourt Turner.

Permanent Staff.

Regimental Sergeant-major Arthur Duvall (w.o.), Testing Officer Small-arms Ammunition, is granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant. Dated 26th April, 1912.

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the Reserve of Officers :—

Honorary Veterinary Surgeon Richard Percival Kinloch, with the honorary rank of Captain. Dated 30th April, 1912.

Lieutenant John Edward Makgill. Dated 15th April, 1912.

5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars).

Sergeant-major John McLean to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 22nd April, 1912.

10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles.

Honorary Lieutenant and Bandmaster Ernest William Rose resigns his commission. Dated 29th April, 1912.

New Zealand Field Artillery.

2nd Lieutenant Irvine Watson Cowie to be Lieutenant, to complete establishment. Dated 3rd March, 1912.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery.

The undermentioned Lieutenants to be Captains. Dated 19th March, 1912.

Albert Edward Brown, vice Morton, resigned.

Arthur Henry Hollis, to complete establishment.

Supernumerary 2nd Lieutenant Edward Wardell Pearce is absorbed into the establishment, vice Brown, promoted.

2nd Lieutenant Laurence Frederick Carson, from the Unattached List (b), to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 29th April, 1912.

Nathaniel Stuart Chalmers, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 13th May, 1912.

Leslie Victor Hulbert, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant, to complete establishment. Dated 13th May, 1912.

The date of seniority of Captain James Henderson Crawford is 17th March, 1911, and not as stated in New Zealand Gazette of the 11th April, 1912.

Corps of New Zealand Engineers.

Lieutenant Frederick William Furkert is transferred to the Unattached List, under the provisions of paragraph 88 (a), General Regulations, 1911. Dated 12th March, 1912.

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

The undermentioned supernumerary 2nd Lieutenants are absorbed into the establishment :—

Wynne Peyton Gray, vice Macfarlane, promoted.

Frederick Allen Hellaby, vice Macdonald, promoted.

Eric Hardwick Tayler, vice Berkeley, promoted.

2nd Lieutenant Colin Sydney Martyn Hamlin resigns his commission. Dated 16th April, 1912.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 13th May, 1912.

Colour-Sergeant Daniel Joseph Augustus Tole, to complete establishment.

Hugh Price Rainger Caughey, supernumerary to establishment.

5th Regiment (Wellington Rifles).

Captain Rawdon St. John Beere to be Major, vice Turner, promoted. Dated 21st January, 1912.

Lieutenant Reginald Langdale Evatt to be Captain, vice Beere, promoted. Dated 21st January, 1912.

Captain James Edward Rundle resigns his commission. Dated 28th March, 1912.

Colour-Sergeant Francis Leveson-Gower West to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 9th May, 1912.

6th (Hauraki) Regiment.

Colour-Sergeant Frederic Hugh Dodson to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 13th May, 1912.

7th Regiment (Wellington West Coast Rifles).

Lieutenant Ernest Edward Willoughby is transferred to the Unattached List (b) for service with the Senior Cadets. Dated 13th May, 1912.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 9th May, 1912.

Sergeant Terence Leslie Skerman.

William Beaumont Hart, Esq.

Peter Harvey Bell, Esq., to complete establishment.

8th Regiment (Southland Rifles).

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 9th May, 1912.

Frederick James William Stewart, Esq.

George Douglas McKenzie, Esq.

9th Regiment (Wellington East Coast Rifles).

Captain Thomas Haslett Ringland, from the Reserve of Officers, to be Captain (1st Battalion), to complete establishment. Dated 9th May, 1912.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (1st Battalion), supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 9th May, 1912.

John Inglis Chrystall, Esq.

Sergeant Leonard Handforth Jardine.

2nd Lieutenant Aubrey Jackson, from Unattached List (b), to be 2nd Lieutenant (2nd Battalion). Dated 9th May, 1912.

Wyndham William Tosswill, Esq., to be 2nd Lieutenant (2nd Battalion), supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 9th May, 1912.

10th Regiment (North Otago Rifles).

Sergeant Claude St. Clair Hamilton to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 13th May, 1912.

12th (Nelson) Regiment.

Lieutenant Harry Hobson McIntosh is transferred to the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps. Dated 29th April, 1912.

13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment.

Honorary Captain and Quartermaster George Edward Perkins to be Captain. Dated 24th April, 1912.

14th Regiment (South Otago Rifles).

Lieutenant Duncan Colquhoun to be Captain. Dated 19th March, 1912.

2nd Lieutenant Hugh Liddon Richards, from the Unattached List (b), to be 2nd Lieutenant, supernumerary to the establishment. Dated 13th May, 1912.

16th (Waikato) Regiment.

Lieutenant William Jeffries to be Captain, vice Rastrick, promoted. Dated 23rd March, 1912.

New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps.

Lieutenant Harry Hobson McIntosh, from the 12th (Nelson) Regiment, to be Lieutenant. Dated 29th April, 1912.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

Charles Fulton Pattie, Esq., to be Lieutenant. Dated 13th May, 1912.