Oct. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3441

Lieutenant Archibald Burnett Sievwright, Unattached List (b), Wellington District.
Lieutenant Gordon Leslie McClure, 8th (Southland) Regiment.
Lieutenant Charles Henry Gouud Joplin, Unattached List (b), Wellington District.
2nd Lieutenant Lionel Heber Bailey, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District.
2nd Lieutenant Charles Hastings Alexander Senior, Unattached List (b), Auckland District.
2nd Lieutenant (Quartermaster Honorary Lieutenant) William Richard Wakelin, New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps.
2nd Lieutenant Launcelot Logan Thomson Bush, 1st (Canterbury) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant Frank Alwyn Taylor, Unattached List (b), Auckland District.
2nd Lieutenant William Hugh Stanley Widdowson, 10th (North Otago) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant Daniel Joseph Augustus Tole, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).
2nd Lieutenant Christopher Ingram, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).
2nd Lieutenant Cecil McLean Smith, Unattached List (b), Otago District.
2nd Lieutenant Robert Leslie Jamieson, New Zealand Railway Battalions.
2nd Lieutenant Ernest James Fawcett, 12th (Nelson) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant George Sissmore Lavie, Unattached List (b), Canterbury District.
2nd Lieutenant Montague Steele, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Gerland Horton Fell, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant George Sainbury Strack, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Neville Stanley Joyce, Unattached List (b), General List.

New Zealand Army Service Corps (No. 5 Company).
Captain William Charles Page, New Zealand Army Service Corps.
Lieutenant Robert Martin Quinn, New Zealand Army Service Corps.
2nd Lieutenant Stanley Herbert Crump, New Zealand Army Service Corps.
2nd Lieutenant George Rowland Hutchinson, New Zealand Army Service Corps.

New Zealand Medical Corps.
Major H. H. Barcroft.
Captain Kenneth Gordon.
Captain Herbert Hilton Cheeseman.
Captain Hardman A. Gordon.
Captain James Garfield Crawford.
Captain Norman Henry Prior.
Captain Douglas Wilson.
Captain Herbert Myer Goldstein.
Captain Frederick Noel Johns.
Captain Daniel Frank Myers.
Captain James Ayson Marshall.
Captain R. Kennon, R.A.M.C.
Captain Douglas Gordon McPherson.
Captain Peter McNab.
Captain James Nelson.
Captain Chisholm Lee.
Captain Norman Hitchcock.

New Zealand Chaplains Department.
Reverend Arthur Mitchell, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.
Reverend Edward Elliott Malden, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.
Reverend John Thomas Brennan, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class.
Reverend William Grigg, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, vice Reverend John Alfred Luxford, Chaplain, 3rd Class, invalidated.
Reverend Walter McLean, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, vice Reverend William Grant, Chaplain, killed in action.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Abolition of the Designation of “The Trentham Regiment” (The Earl of Liverpool’s Own) and its Formation into a Rifle Brigade.

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

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to abolish the designation of “The Trentham Regiment” (The Earl of Liverpool’s Own), as published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 27th May, 1915, and to approve of its formation into a brigade to be designated as under:—

“The New Zealand Rifle Brigade” (The Earl of Liverpool’s Own). Dated 1st October, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Europe).—The New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool’s Own), 1st and 2nd Battalions.

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 Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool’s Own), 1st and 2nd Battalions, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, with the ranks set against their respective names, and in cases in which an officer holds in the New Zealand Staff Corps or permanent unit of the Territorial Force a rank different from the rank here set against his name, to approve that he shall hold such latter rank temporarily during the period of his employment with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool’s Own), New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and with effect from 1st October, 1915:—

Lieutenant-Colonels.
(1.) Harry Townshend Fulton, D.S.O., 2nd King Edward’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles).
(2.) Alexander Edward Stewart, 14th (South Otago) Regiment.

Majors.
(1.) William Sommers Austin, 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment.
(1.) William Kay, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).
(2.) Rawdon St. John Beere, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.
(2.) Arthur James Childs, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment.

Captains.
(1.) Joseph Garrett Roache, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.
(1.) Edward Puttick, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.
(1.) George Ernest Simeon, Unattached List (b), Wellington District (Quartermaster).
(1.) Peter Harvey Bell, 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.
(2.) Alfred Digby-Smith, Corps of New Zealand Engineers.
(2.) John McDonald Johnston, Unattached List (b), Wellington District.
(1.) James Pow, Unattached List (b), Otago District.
(1.) John Richmond Cowles, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.
(1.) Charles Kimbell Gasquoine, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.
(2.) Alfred James Powley, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment, (Coast Defence Detachment).
(2.) William John Pritchard Guinness, New Zealand Railway Battalion, Auckland District.
(1.) Alan Innes Walker, Unattached List (b), Auckland District.
(2.) William Alfred Bowring, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment, (Coast Defence Detachment).
(1.) Robert Oliver Brydon, New Zealand Railway Battalions, Wellington District.
(2.) Honorary Captain and Quartermaster William Ernest Christie, 5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars).

Lieutenants.
(2.) (Temporary Captain) Andrew Haitley Burn, New Zealand Staff Corps.
(1.) (Temporary Captain) John Bishop, New Zealand Staff Corps.
(2.) (Temporary Captain) Thomas Martin Wilkes, New Zealand Staff Corps.
(1.) (Temporary Captain) Robert Gleadow Purdy, New Zealand Staff Corps.
(1.) Bernard Russell Lankshear, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.
(2.) Herbert Henry Christophers, New Zealand Railway Battalion (Wellington District).
(2.) John Bosley Bennett, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.
(2.) Harold Eric Barrowclough, Unattached List (b), General List, (Wellington District).
(2.) Ernest Astley Harding, 15th (North Auckland) Regiment.
(2.) Lindsay Merritt Inglis, 2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment.
(1.) Humphrey Holderness, Unattached List (b), General List.
(1.) Paul Austin Elder, Unattached List (b), General List, Wellington District.
(1.) Duncan Buchanan Macfarlane, 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment.
(2.) Kenneth Sholto Caldwell, 5th (Wellington) Regiment.
(2.) Philip Felton McRae, 15th (North Auckland) Regiment.