May 6. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1693

Grant of Temporary Rank.

Major Norman Chivas Hamilton, Army Service Corps, Commanding the Divisional Train, to have the temporary rank of Lieut.-Colonel while so employed. Dated 26th February, 1915.

The undermentioned Captains of the New Zealand Staff Corps to have the temporary rank of Major while serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Dated 13th February, 1915:—

Charles Henry Jeffries Brown.
Charles Guy Powles.

The date of the grant of temporary Major to Captain Hector Gowans Reid, Army Service Corps, is 30th October, 1914, and not 10th December, 1914, as stated in New Zealand Gazette of the 11th February, 1915.

To be Majors.

Captain Norman Chivas Hamilton, Army Service Corps. Dated 30th October, 1914.
Captain Norris Stephen Falla, New Zealand Howitzer Battery. Dated 25th February, 1915.

To be Captains.

The undermentioned Lieutenants (Dental Surgeons), to be Captains. Dated 20th November, 1914:—

William Mackenzie.
William Aitken.
John Connor.
Donald Stewart Milne.
Kenneth MacCormack.
John Philip Jory.
Thomas Russell Ritchie.
Francis Parnell Tymons.
John Ballam Don.
William Gladstone Scannell.
George Stanley Sharpe.
Bertrand Sibbald Finn.
Douglas Maunsell Beere.
Arthur Lunan Logan.
Ernest Herbert Rawson.
Raymond Alfred Dearsley.
Donald Benjamin Green.
John Sanders Fairchild.

Lieutenant Frederick Waite, New Zealand Engineers. Dated 10th February, 1915.
Lieutenant Percival Beaumont Greenhough, New Zealand Field Artillery. Dated 25th February, 1915.
Lieutenant Henry James Daltry, New Zealand Howitzer Battery. Dated 25th February, 1915.

To be Lieutenants.

The appointment of Leopold George Dyke Acland, New Zealand Army Service Corps, is that of Lieutenant, and not 2nd Lieutenant, as stated in New Zealand Gazette of the 24th September, 1915, and with effect from 1st September, 1914.

Farrier-Sergeant James Edward Cockroft, 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles, for service in the New Zealand Veterinary Corps. Dated 26th February, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Montagu Wynyard Higginson, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Dated 13th March, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant James Garfield Stewart, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Dated 13th March, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Morrison Swan Cameron, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Dated 13th March, 1915.

To be 2nd Lieutenants.

Sergeant Donald Archibald McCurdy, Clerical Staff, Headquarters, Expeditionary Force. Dated 7th November, 1914.

Corporal John Dobson Dryden, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Dated 15th January, 1915.

Lance-Corporal Sydney William Paine, Field Troops, New Zealand Engineers. Dated 2nd February, 1915.

Lance-Corporal Maurice George Robert Newbould, Field Company, New Zealand Engineers. Dated 2nd February, 1915.

Sergeant Hugh Townshend Boscawen, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles. Dated 3rd February, 1915.

Sergeant Duncan Buchanan McDonald, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles. Dated 4th February, 1915.

Sergeant Ralph John Black, New Zealand Engineers. Dated 10th February, 1915.

Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant Henry McDougall, New Zealand Field Artillery (New Zealand Howitzer Battery Ammunition Column). Dated 25th February, 1915.

Sergeant William John Baxter, New Zealand Field Artillery (No. 2 Brigade Ammunition Column). Dated 25th February, 1915.

Sergeant Philip John Ellis, New Zealand Field Artillery. Dated 5th March, 1915.

Sergeant Ewen John McGregor, 4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles. Dated 5th March, 1915.

Company Sergeant-major Philip Hamilton Harper, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Dated 13th March, 1915.

Sergeant C. D. Dick-Cleland, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Dated 13th March, 1915.

To be Quartermasters.

Lieutenant Frederick Norman Marchant, 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles, with the rank of Honorary Captain. Dated 2nd February, 1915.

Lieutenant Valentine Joseph Egglestone, 4th (Otago) Regiment (Quartermaster Otago Infantry Battalion), to be Honorary Captain. Dated 6th March, 1915.

Honorary Lieutenant William Hunter Will (Quartermaster New Zealand Field Ambulance) to be Honorary Captain. Dated 6th March, 1915.

Quartermaster-Sergeant Herbert Henry Whyte, New Zealand Field Artillery, with the rank of Honorary Lieutenant. Dated 25th February, 1915.

Resignations.

Quartermaster (Honorary Captain) Edward Patrick Coady, Canterbury Mounted Rifle Regiment. Dated 29th January, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Bruce Langdon Joll, Queen Alexandra’s 2nd (Wellington West Coast) Mounted Rifles. Dated 30th January, 1915.

Honorary Consulting Surgeon.

Sir Lambert Ormsby, M.D., F.R.C.S., to be Honorary Consulting Surgeon to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, with the honorary rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the New Zealand Medical Corps. Dated 27th February, 1915.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 29th April, 1915.

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

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.

Albert Henry Richards to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 25th January, 1915.

New Zealand Field Artillery.

Lieutenant Lindo Saul Levin is transferred to the Unattached List (a). Dated 6th March, 1915.

Corporal William Geddes to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation), G Battery, supernumerary to establishment. Dated 23rd February, 1915.

John Elliot Lindsay Gardner to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation), J Battery, supernumerary to establishment. Dated 26th March, 1915.

Corps of New Zealand Engineers.

(New Zealand Railway Battalions.)

The appointments of the undermentioned Lieutenants (on probation) are confirmed:—

John Fraser.
Arthur George Aldridge.
Bertie Leonard Redding Reeve.
Cecil Robert Lynden Bell.
James Doran McComish.
Stevenson Wright.
James Goodet McPherson.
James William Curtis.
Percy Harold Morey.
Gilbert Simpson.
Jonathan Charters Schneider.
Hector Porteous West.
William Joseph Foote.
James William Woodbury.
William Valentine Robb.