Dec. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3641

Registrars of Births, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, 4th December, 1913.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

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

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1913.

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

7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Richard Wilson resigns his commission. Dated 22nd October, 1913.

New Zealand Field Artillery.

Captain Henry James Daltry is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 23rd September, 1913.

Corps of New Zealand Engineers.

(New Zealand Railway Battalions.)

Colonel Thomas Ronayne resigns his appointment as Director of Railway Transport, and is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 30th September, 1913.

Ernest Haviland Hiley, Esq., to be Colonel. Dated 1st November, 1913.

Colonel Ernest Haviland Hiley to be Director of Railway Transport, vice Ronayne, transferred to Reserve of Officers. Dated 1st November, 1913.

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette of 17th July, 1913, relative to the appointment of Quartermaster (Honorary Lieutenant) Lionel Brough Stansell, is hereby cancelled.

Lionel Brough Stansell to be Captain (on probation), (North Island Battalion). Dated 7th July, 1913.

Henry Ernest Neale to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation), (North Island Battalion). Dated 7th July, 1913.

(Mounted Signal Troops and Divisional Signal Companies.)

Lieutenant Thomas Lawrence Ranstead is transferred to the Unattached List (a). Dated 15th October, 1913.

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

2nd Lieutenant Daniel Joseph Augustus Tole is transferred to the 6th (Hauraki) Regiment. Dated 5th November, 1913.

6th (Hauraki) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Daniel Joseph Augustus Tole, from the 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (“Countess of Ranfurly’s Own”), to be 2nd Lieutenant, with seniority next below 2nd Lieutenant Wynne Peyton Gray. Dated 5th November, 1913.

7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.

Lieutenant Walter Tiffen Stewart is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 6th October, 1913.

9th (Wellington East Coast) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Warren Oswald Hastings to be Lieutenant, with seniority next below Lieutenant Ernest Sirdefield Harston. Dated 19th August, 1912.

2nd Lieutenant (supernumerary to the establishment) Leonard Handforth Jardine is absorbed into the establishment. Dated 20th November, 1913.

Colour-Sergeant Allan Grindell Gardiner to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 20th November, 1913.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on probation). Dated 20th November, 1913 :—
Sergeant Reginald Francis Gambrill.
James McRae.

11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles).

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 2nd August, 1913 :—
Frank Locke Hartnell.
Thomas Linton Buxton.
Godfrey Clapham Wells.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

Lieutenant Henry Montefiore Wilson resigns his commission. Dated 17th July, 1913.

George William Gower, M.B., to be Lieutenant. Dated 14th November, 1913.

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The undermentioned Chaplains to the Forces (4th Class) are promoted to be Chaplains (3rd Class) :—
The Reverend Cecil Alexander Burns Watson. Dated 2nd September, 1913.

The Reverend George Lindsay. Dated 20th October, 1913.

The Reverend George Craig Cruickshank, Chaplain (4th Class), resigns his commission. Dated 22nd July, 1913.

Unattached List (a).

Lieutenant Thomas Lawrence Ranstead, from Corps of New Zealand Engineers (Mounted Signal Troops and Divisional Signal Companies), to be Lieutenant. Dated 15th October, 1913.

Unattached List (b).

(Senior Cadets.)

The undermentioned officers resign their commissions :—
Major Sidney Arthur Edinger. Dated 16th October, 1913.

Captain John Carington Pope. Dated 16th November, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Disbandment of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve, under section 43 (1) and (2) of the Defence Act, 1909, of the disbandment of the

Birchfield Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Birchfield, Canterbury Military District. Date of disbandment, 3rd December, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Acceptance of Services of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1913.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under section 43 (1) and (2) of the Defence Act, 1909, the services of the

Kaiapoi Defence Rifle Club,

with headquarters at Kaiapoi, Canterbury Military District. Date of acceptance, 27th November, 1913.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.