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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 17th April, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER SCHOLES

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Taumarunui.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Justice.

Coroners appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 18th April, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN JAMES PILKINGTON, Esq., of Ohakune; and
DAVID JOHN EVANS, Esq., J.P., of Hokitika,

to be Coroners within the Dominion of New Zealand.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Justice.

Registrar of Births and Deaths appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th April, 1916.

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

LESLIE CLIFFORD COLLETT

to be a Registrar of Births and Deaths for the District of Orepuki at Tuatapere, as from the 1st April, 1916.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 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.
FRANK LOUIS CUNNOLD .. .. Te Puke.
OLIVE LE ROY .. .. Great Barrier.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments, Promotions, Resignations, and Transfers of Officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 11th April, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, resignations, and transfers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force:—

New Zealand Staff Corps.

The undermentioned officers are attached. Dated 13th February, 1916:—

Captain Samuel Mackay McGee, V.D., Retired List, District Accountant, Canterbury District.

Captain Sydney Vincent Trask, Reserve of Officers, District Accountant, Wellington District.

Honorary Captain Arthur White, District Storekeeper, Canterbury District.

Honorary Captain Owen Paul McGuigan, District Storekeeper, Otago District.

Honorary Lieutenant Robert Henry Williams, Assistant Director of Equipment and Stores.

Honorary Lieutenant Frank Edwin Ford, District Storekeeper, Wellington District.

Douglas Gordon Hunter, District Accountant, Otago District, is granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant, and is attached.

1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry).

Captain Robert Macartney, from the New Zealand Forces Motor Service Corps, to be Captain (temp.). Dated 24th February, 1916.

8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.

Charles Leslie Orbell to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation), supernumerary to establishment. Dated 1st March, 1916.

12th (Otago) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant Samuel Barr Paterson, having been struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is absorbed into the establishment. Dated 15th March, 1916.

Corps of New Zealand Engineers.—New Zealand Railway Battalions (South Island).

Sergeant-major Neil McLeod Matheson to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 9th October, 1915.

New Zealand Army Service Corps.

Lieutenant Frederick Augustus Macdonald is transferred to the 16th (Waikato) Regiment. Dated 13th March, 1916.

4th (Otago) Regiment.

Captain Richard Jones, having been struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is absorbed into the establishment. Dated 1st February, 1916.

5th (Wellington) Regiment.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (temp.) during the absence of officers with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force:—

Victor Alfred Mills, vice Lieutenant Gasquoine. Dated 14th March, 1916.

Sergeant-major Francis Henry Sharland, vice Lieutenant Cowles. Dated 15th March, 1916.

6th (Hauraki) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant (on probation) James William Roy Penney resigns his appointment. Dated 6th March, 1916.

9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment.

Major George Walter Cockroft having been struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, is absorbed into the establishment. Dated 16th March, 1916.

13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment.

Thomas Shankland to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.), vice 2nd Lieutenant Manning, with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Dated 8th March, 1916.

16th (Waikato) Regiment.

Lieutenant Frederick Augustus Macdonald, from the New Zealand Army Service Corps, to be Lieutenant. Dated 13th March, 1916.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 73/15, of 10th June, 1915, relative to the promotion of Captain David Storer Wylie, F.R.C.S. Eng., to the rank of Major, dated 19th April, 1915, is cancelled.

Captain David Storer Wylie, F.R.C.S. Eng., to be Major during the period of the war. Dated 19th April, 1915.

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 73/15, of 10th June, 1915, relative to the promotion of Captain Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland, F.R.C.S. Eng., to the rank of Major, dated 19th April, 1915, is cancelled.

Captain Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland, F.R.C.S. Eng., to be Major during the period of the war. Dated 19th April, 1915.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on probation). Dated 14th March, 1916:—

Dallas Bradlaugh Walker.

James Alfred Jenkins.

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The undermentioned to be Chaplains to the Forces (4th Class):—

The Reverend James Branksome Hall. Dated 2nd March, 1916.

The Reverend Patrick James O’Neill. Dated 9th March, 1916.

New Zealand Forces Motor Service Corps.

(Motor-car Section.)

Captain Robert Macartney is transferred to the 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry) (temp.). Dated 24th February, 1916.

Canterbury.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on probation):—

Camille Michel Malfroy. Dated 18th December, 1915.

Arthur Eugene Moore. Dated 3rd March, 1916.

Bernard Bedingfield Wood. Dated 3rd March, 1916.