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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 89

Deputy Official Assignee appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 20th July, 1915.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

THOMAS RICHARD ALLEN

to be Deputy Official Assignee at Masterton for the purposes of the Bankruptcy Act, 1908, as from the 1st day of August, 1915, vice W. B. Chennells.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

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

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 19th July, 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 Permanent Staff and Territorial Force:—

The Regiment of Royal New Zealand Artillery.

Regimental Sergeant-major Hans Christian Peterson (W.O.) to be Honorary Lieutenant. Dated 1st July, 1915.

Permanent Staff.

Staff Sergeant-major Samuel Mellows, New Zealand Permanent Staff, to be Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport (Auckland District), and is granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant, and is attached to No. 1 Company New Zealand Army Service Corps while so employed, vice Captain William Charles Page, transferred to No. 5 Company, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Dated 14th July, 1915.

Sergeant-Instructor John Edward Packman, New Zealand Permanent Staff, to be Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport (Canterbury District), and is granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant, and is attached to No. 7 Company, New Zealand Army Service Corps while so employed, vice Lieutenant (temporary) Ronald Martin Quinn, transferred to No. 5 Company, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Dated 14th July, 1915.

1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry).

Lieutenant-Colonel William Nathaniel Carlon Bond, from the Reserve of Officers, 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, Reserve of Officers. Dated 15th October, 1914.

8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Nathaniel Carlon Bond (Reserve of Officers) is transferred to the 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry) Reserve of Officers. Dated 15th October, 1914.

New Zealand Field Artillery.

Henry Chynoweth Cock, to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) supernumerary to establishment. Dated 7th June, 1915.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery.

The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Kenneth Duncan Ambrose, is confirmed.

Corps of New Zealand Engineers.

(Mounted Signal Troops.)

Lieutenant Lancelot Tuckwell Herbert, to be Captain. Dated 16th February, 1915.

(Divisional Signal Companies.)

Lieutenant Harold Gladstone Bradley, to be Captain. Dated 16th February, 1915.

New Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants. Dated 19th March, 1915:—

George Birnie.
William James McNiece.
Charles Edward Reid.
William Albert Gundy.
Joseph Patrick O’Reilly.
John Patrick O’Sullivan.
Charles Joseph Walton Lockie.
James Macmorran.
James Chivers.
Frederick Cecil Hubbard.
Bertie Hedgland Parker.
John Norman Rauch.

1st Canterbury Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Richard Leslie Anderson is transferred to the 9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment. Dated 25th March, 1915.

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

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the Reserve of Officers:—

Lieutenant John Murdoch McKenzie. Dated 2nd February, 1915.

Lieutenant Frederick Allen Hellaby. Dated 14th May, 1915.

Coast Defence Detachment.

2nd Lieutenant Cyril Leonard Fleming, is transferred to the New Zealand Army Service Corps. Dated 29th May, 1915.

4th (Otago) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Peter William Gordon Spiers, to be Lieutenant, vice Jones, promoted. Dated 16th February, 1915.

7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.

Sergeant Alfred Cranstone Cowie to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 5th June, 1915.

9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Richard Leslie Anderson, from the 1st (Canterbury) Regiment, to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 25th March, 1915.

11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles).

Lieutenant Frank Locke Hartnell to be Captain. Dated 12th May, 1915.

Company Sergeant-major Frank Edward Clarke to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 8th June, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Robert Henry Espiner, from the Unattached List (b) to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 31st May, 1915.

12th (Nelson) Regiment.

William Norris Masefield to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 29th May, 1915.

The appointments of the undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants (on probation) are confirmed:—

Cyril Robert Rout.
Eric Stubbs.
Edward John Harvey.
William David Stoney Johnston.
Cyril Fuller Carey.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Everard Maunsell Stace is transferred to the 16th (Waikato) Regiment. Dated 28th May, 1915.

13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment.

Lieutenant Henry Gillies Livingstone, from the Unattached List (b), to be Lieutenant. Dated 26th May, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant Cyril Edwin Bell, from the Unattached List (b), to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 26th May, 1915.

14th (South Otago) Regiment.

Sergeant Robert William Stanley Botting to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 14th June, 1915.

15th (North Auckland) Regiment.

Lieutenant Lionel Hugh Titchener, from the Unattached List (b), to be Lieutenant. Dated 9th April, 1915.

16th (Waikato) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Ronald Bampton Morton, from the Unattached List (b), to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 7th May, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Everard Maunsell Stace, from the 12th (Nelson) Regiment, to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 28th May, 1915.

New Zealand Army Service Corps.

Captain William Charles Page to be Captain (on probation) to command No. 5 Company, New Zealand Army Service Corps, on relinquishing his position as Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, Auckland District. Dated 14th July, 1915.

Lieutenant (temporary) Ronald Martin Quinn to be Lieutenant (on probation) No. 5 Company, New Zealand Army Service Corps, on relinquishing his position as Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport (Canterbury District). Dated 14th July, 1915.

2nd Lieutenant John Christopher Holland to be Lieutenant. Dated 14th June, 1915.

George Rowland Hutchinson to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 26th June, 1915.