Nov. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3779

New Zealand Motor Service Corps (Motor-car Section).
(Wellington Section.)
Walter Naismith to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation).
Dated 5th October, 1915.
(Canterbury Section.)
John Sead-Gowing to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation).
Dated 1st September, 1915.

MEMORANDA.
Reserve of Officers (General List).
Lieutenant Alexander McNab resigns his commission. Dated
28th August, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 8th November, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’
Decoration to Captain George Edward Perkins, 13th (North
Canterbury and Westland) Regiment, he having a total rank
and commissioned service to the 13th September, 1915, en-
titling him thereto of twenty-one years one hundred and
twenty-four days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 8th November, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’
Decoration to Captain Edgar Page Lacey, Corps of New
Zealand Engineers, he having a total rank and commissioned
service to the 3rd September, 1915, entitling him thereto of
twenty years and ninety days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Awards of the Long-service and Good-conduct Medals.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 8th November, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve,
in accordance with paragraph 14, Appendix IX, of
the Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand, 1913,
of the following awards of the Long-service and Good-conduct
Medal :—

Royal New Zealand Artillery.
No. 550, Sergeant Edward Wainhouse.
No. 765, Gunner William Ainsworth.
No. 791, Gunner Edward James Barwell.
No. 816, Gunner John Findlay Gibson.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces’ Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 8th November, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces’ Long-
service Medal to No. 20/898, Sergeant-major Robert James
Cruickshank, New Zealand Garrison Artillery, he having a
total service to the 26th August, 1915, entitling him thereto
of twenty-one years two hundred and thirty-four days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces’ Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 8th November, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces’ Long-
service Medal to No. 544, Sergeant-major Arthur Charles
Fawcett, 12th (Nelson) Regiment, he having a total service
to the 13th August, 1915, entitling him thereto of twenty
years one hundred and forty-one days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces’ Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 8th November, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces’ Long-
service Medal to No. 500, Sergeant-major John Stevenson,
2nd (South Canterbury) Regiment, he having a total service
to the 21st August, 1915, entitling him thereto of twenty-one
years two hundred and seventy-one days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, and Transfers of
Officers of the Royal New Zealand Artillery and Territorial
Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 8th November, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve
of the appointments, promotions, resignations, and
transfers of the undermentioned officers of the Royal New
Zealand Artillery and Territorial Force :—

Regiment of Royal New Zealand Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Edward Hume is granted the tempo-
rary rank of Colonel while in command of a military district.
Dated 28th September, 1915.

5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars).
The undermentioned Captains to be Majors. Dated 31st
July, 1915 :—
James Jenkins.
David Brett Shand.

9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.
Captain Claude John Hamilton to be Major, vice Selwyn
Chambers, killed in action. Dated 7th August, 1915.
The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants.
Dated 21st June, 1913 :—
Cyril Paul Hunter.
Thomas Percy Hunter.

3rd Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Milliken, from the Unattached List (b),
to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 2nd July, 1915.
2nd Lieutenant Bernard Harry Howes, from the Unattached
List (b), to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 6th September,
1915.

10th (North Otago) Regiment.
Colour-Sergeant Vincent Foster to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated
23rd September, 1915.

New Zealand Army Service Corps.
2nd Lieutenant Forbes Herbert Anderson to be Lieutenant.
Dated 9th October, 1915.
William Robert Dick to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation),
No. 2 Company. Dated 20th September, 1915.

New Zealand Medical Corps.
Doctor Hope Lewis to be temporarily attached, with the
honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, while employed as
Consulting Surgeon to the Expeditionary Forces. Dated
17th September, 1915.
The undermentioned to be Captains :—
Arthur Edward Albert Palmer. Dated 31st August, 1915
Tom Pettey, M.D., F.R.C.S., Eng. Dated 6th Septem-
ber, 1915.
James Breadalbane MacDiarmid, M.B., Ch.B. Dated
8th September, 1915.
Ventry Alexander John Smith, L.R.C.S.I., L.R.C.P.I.,
to be Captain (temporarily) during the period of the
war. Dated 7th September, 1915.

New Zealand Chaplains Department.
The undermentioned to be Chaplains to the Forces
(4th Class) :—
The Reverend Thomas Andrew Gilbert. Dated 9th
September, 1915.
The Reverend Robert Finlay Geddes. Dated 14th
September, 1915.
The Reverend Ronald Sinclair Watson. Dated 20th
September, 1915.
The Reverend Percy Temple Williams. Dated 25th
September, 1915.

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