Mar. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 849

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd March, 1916.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :

Name. District.
CHARLES JOSEPH HUGH CURRY .. Mangaroa.
GEORGE EDWARD MACAULAY .. Dargaville.
ARTHUR WOLLESTON PYM HEWITT .. Whakatane.
DORA SHEPHERD .. .. Matakanа.
LILIAN SOPHIA HILL .. .. Stewart Island.
HENRY EDSER .. .. Wyndham.
ROBERT FOSTER .. .. Pelorus.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

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

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 14th March, 1916.

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

1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry).
Lieutenant John Coe having been struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force is absorbed into the establishment. Dated 16th February, 1916.

4th (Waikato) Mounted Rifles.
Sergeant Fabian Eric Spain to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 8th February, 1916.

6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles.
Charles William Liggins to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.), vice Lieutenant Bird, with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Dated 5th February, 1916.

New Zealand Field Artillery.
2nd Lieutenant Edwin James Phillips to be Lieutenant. Dated 2nd September, 1915.

New Zealand Garrison Artillery.
2nd Lieutenant (on probation) George Herbert Malis Moir resigns his appointment. Dated 13th January, 1916.

Corps of New Zealand Engineers.
(New Zealand Railway Battalions.—North Island.)
John William Dayman to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.) during the period of the war. Dated 14th January, 1916.

11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles).
Captain Frank Locke Hartnell, having been struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is absorbed into the establishment. Dated 22nd February, 1916.

15th (North Auckland) Regiment.
Sergeant Robert Hugh Harris to be 2nd Lieutenant (supernumerary to establishment). Dated 12th February, 1916.

New Zealand Medical Corps.
The undermentioned to be Captains :
Thomas Gilray. Dated 28th January, 1916.
Alexander Hendry. Dated 3rd February, 1916.
Gavin Addie Forrest, M.B., B.S., to be Captain while employed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Dated 18th February, 1916.
William Haddow Pettit, M.B., to be temporary Captain while employed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Dated 28th January, 1916.
Lieutenant Philip Blaxland Benham is granted the temporary rank of Captain. Dated 9th February, 1916.
Captain Ernest Augustus Boxer, having been struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is absorbed into the establishment. Dated 14th February, 1916.

New Zealand Dental Service Corps.
Major Norman John Rishworth to be Assistant Director. Dated 28th January, 1916.
Sergeant Howard Charles Edwards to be Lieutenant. Dated 2nd February, 1916.

New Zealand Chaplains Department.
The Reverend Archibald McNeur to be Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class. Dated 1st February, 1916.

Unattached List (b).
The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants :
Hugh Alexander Forrest. Dated 21st August, 1915.
Herbert Andrew Lewis. Dated 21st August, 1915.
Gilbert Walpole Coombe. Dated 28th January, 1916.
2nd Lieutenant Percy Samuel Kisby Mason, General List, is granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant. Dated 12th January, 1916.
Alexander Douglas Jack to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 24th January, 1916.
Rudolph Hynes to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 8th November, 1915.

The appointments of the undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants (on probation) are confirmed :
Cuthbert Henry Adams.
William Phillips Endean.
Barton Albert Ginger.
Vernon Weston Holden.
Claude McCarthy.
Stanley Ruddock.
Kenneth Alexander Snedden.
George Tooman.
Clinton Henry Wynyаrd.

Memorandum.
Lieutenant Richard Edward Joseph Martin, Unattached List (b), is appointed for duty as Ship’s Quartermaster on H.M.N.Z. Transport “Aparima,” with his present rank. Dated 19th February, 1916.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 14th March, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to Major James Sandilands Douglas, 4th (Otago) Regiment, he having a total rank and commissioned service to 31st December, 1915, entitling him thereto of twenty years one hundred and eighty-seven days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 14th March, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the award of a Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to the Reverend Percy Scott Smallfield, Chaplain to the Forces, 2nd Class, New Zealand Chaplains Department, he having a total commissioned service to the 12th January, 1916, entitling him thereto of twenty-one years one hundred and fifty days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Medical Officers to the New Zealand Military Hospital, Walton, England.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 17th March, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned appointments of Medical Officers to the New Zealand Military Hospital, Walton, England. Dated 21st December, 1915 :
Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Myers, New Zealand Medical Corps, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Major Thomas Mill to be Registrar, with rank of Major.
Honorary Captain Edmund Harry Colbeck, M.D., F.R.C.P., New Zealand Medical Corps, to be Major.

To be Captains :
Herbert Donald Robertson, M.B., New Zealand Medical Corps.
Richard Charles Staples-Browne.
Norman Howard Maxwell Dalston.

To be Lieutenants :
George William Matthews, New Zealand Medical Corps.

To be 2nd Lieutenants :
Hector Bruce Mackenzie.
John Hoad.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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