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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 115

Unattached List (b).
2nd Lieutenant Milton Rowley Aldridge is transferred to the Corps of New Zealand Engineers (New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps). Dated 1st September, 1915.
Sergeant Keith Longbourne Vickerman to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 14th September, 1915.
Arthur Grosvenor Mabee to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 8th September, 1915.

Memoranda.
The undermentioned officers are appointed for permanent duty as Ship’s Quartermasters on the undermentioned Transports, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, with the ranks specified while so employed :—

H.M.N.Z. Transport “Willochra.”
Lieutenant Thomas John Linton Buxton, 11th (Taranaki) Rifles, to be Honorary Captain. Dated 10th August, 1915.

H.M.N.Z. Transport “Tofua.”
2nd Lieutenant Ethelbert Joseph James Welch, Unattached List (b), to be Honorary Lieutenant. Dated 10th August, 1915.

H.M.N.Z. Transport “Tahiti.”
Captain (Quartermaster) Cecil Turley Cox, 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment, to be Captain. Dated 14th September, 1915.

H.M.N.Z. Transport “Aparima.”
Captain George Priclor, Reserve of Officers (South Africa), to be Honorary Captain. Dated 23rd September, 1915.

H.M.N.Z. Transport “Maunganui.”
Captain (Quartermaster) William H. Fraser, 9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment, to be Captain. Dated 27th September, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Acceptance of Services of a Mounted Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 16th September, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under section 43 (1) and (2) of the Defence Act, 1905, the services of the

New Zealand Farmers’ Union Mounted Defence Rifle Club,
with headquarters at Pokeno (Auckland Military District). Date of acceptance, 16th September, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Resignation of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 18th September, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve that the Te Puke Defence Rifle Club, with headquarters at Te Puke (Auckland Military District), whose services were accepted by notification in New Zealand Gazette No. 79/15, dated 1st July, 1915, be redesignated the

Te Puke Farmers’ Union Mounted Defence Rifle Club,
and with effect from 23rd June, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Acceptance of Services of a Defence Rifle Club.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 7th September, 1915.

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

Farmers’ Union Defence Rifle Club (Mangere Branch),
with headquarters at Mangere (Auckland Military District). Date of acceptance, 6th September, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Dismissal of a Member of the Territorial Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 7th September, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to dismiss from the New Zealand Forces, under section 6 (b) of the Defence Act, 1909, the undermentioned member of the Territorial Force :—
No. 44/601. Private Robert Gibbons, 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment. Dated 20th August, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Europe) 7th Reinforcements.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 5th October, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the following appointments of officers to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (7th Reinforcements) with the ranks specified, and with effect from 1st October, 1915 :—

Mounted Rifles.
Captain Eric Hamilton Orr, 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.
Captain George Darcy Hamilton, 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles.
Captain John James Raynes, Reserve of Officers, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.
Lieutenant Cyril Blakeney, 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.
Lieutenant Harry Holman Hayhurst, New Zealand Motor Service Corps.
Lieutenant John Robert Loudon, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District.
Lieutenant Clifton Stewart Geddis, Unattached List (b), Wellington District.
2nd Lieutenant Malcolm McKechnie, Unattached List (b), Auckland District.
2nd Lieutenant William Leslie Coleman, 9th (Wellington) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Alexander John Mackay Manson, Unattached List (b), Wellington District.
2nd Lieutenant Walter Woolton Averill, Unattached List (a), Wellington District.
2nd Lieutenant James Robertson, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Lancelot Fairfax Jones, 9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant William Richard Foley, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Claude Albert Marchant, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Harry Campbell Hemphill, 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Albert Richards, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Edward John Grey, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Struthers Williams, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Claude Hall Clark, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Cecil Bertrand Lockyer, Unattached List (b), General List.

New Zealand Field Artillery.
Captain Joseph Sadlier Gill, New Zealand Garrison Artillery (Westport Division), with the rank of Major, temporarily until disembarkation.
Lieutenant William Robert Golden, New Zealand Garrison Artillery (Auckland Division).
Lieutenant Robert Wakelin Dunn, New Zealand Garrison Artillery (Wellington Division).
Lieutenant Joseph Abel, New Zealand Garrison Artillery (Wellington Division).
2nd Lieutenant William Geddes, A Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery.

Infantry.
Captain William David Jolly, 10th (North Otago) Regiment.
Captain Gavin William Wardrop, 17th (Ruahine) Regiment.
Captain Cedric Arthur Herman, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment, (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).
Lieutenant Ernest Charles Parry, Unattached List (b), Auckland District.
Lieutenant John Llewellyn Charles Merton, Unattached List (b), Wellington District.
Lieutenant Peter Mackenzie, 10th (North Otago) Regiment.
Lieutenant William Ward, Unattached List (b), Otago District.
Lieutenant William James Bevis, Unattached List (b), Otago District.
Lieutenant William Henry Cannan, Unattached List (b), Wellington District,