MAY 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1625

New Zealand Chaplains Department.

The Reverend Arthur Mitchell, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, to be 3rd Class. Dated 1st January, 1916.

New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps.

No. 12/689. Sergeant Alfred James Bond to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 19th January, 1916.

New Zealand Pay Corps.

No. 15/121. Sergeant James Seaton Martin to be Honorary Lieutenant. Dated 1st February, 1916.

New Zealand Rifles.

Major Murray Menzies Gardner to be Brigade Major.
Captain Thomas Ralph Eastwood to be Staff Captain.
Captain Alfred James Powley to be temporary Adjutant.
Band-Sergeant P. E. Cole to be Honorary 2nd Lieutenant.
Dated 11th January, 1916.

Maori Contingent.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 15th November, 1915:—
No. 15/161. Sergeant-major Henry Ray Vercoe.
No. 16/518. Sergeant Edward Renata Muhunga Broughton.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Officers to New Zealand Military Forces.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 29th April, 1916.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned appointments of officers to the New Zealand Military Forces with the ranks specified, and with effect from 29th April, 1916:—

Mounted Rifles.

Captain Thomas Butler Bax, late 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Alexander Rueul Livingstone, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Alexander Byers Johnstone, Unattached List (b), General List.

New Zealand Field Artillery.

Lieutenant William Henry Jones, “F” Battery.
2nd Lieutenant William Eric Maitland Lees, Unattached List (b) General List.
2nd Lieutenant James Alexander Guild, Unattached List (b), General List.

New Zealand Engineers.

Lieutenant Silston Cory-Wright, New Zealand Garrison Artillery, Auckland Division.
2nd Lieutenant Edward Morton, Unattached List (b), General List.

Signal Units.

2nd Lieutenant James Francis Flynn, Unattached List (b), General List.

Cyclist Units.

Major Charles Hellier Davis Evans, Reserve of Officers, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant James Thompson Steven, 8th (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant George Leslie Comer, 10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant George Clark-Walker, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Charles George Gordon Johnston, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Reginald William Kebbell, Unattached List (b), General List.

Infantry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Roy William Cumming, 16th (Waikato) Regiment.
Captain Lawrence Victor Porteous, Unattached List (b).
Captain James Blackwood Neely, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) John Henry Grover, New Zealand Staff Corps.
Lieutenant Ernest Edmund Somervell, Unattached List (b).
Lieutenant Lawrence Henry Gillett, 16th (Waikato) Regiment.
Lieutenant Colin McGregor Littlejohn, Unattached List (b).
Lieutenant Alfred George Bryan, Unattached List (b), General List.
Lieutenant George Brooke Carter, Reserve of Officers, New Zealand Garrison Artillery.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Brewer, 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own), Coast Defence Detachment.
2nd Lieutenant John Southward, Unattached List (b).
2nd Lieutenant John James Kernohan, 4th (Otago) Regiment, Coast Defence Detachment.
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Sager Bailey, Unattached List (b).
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Russell Baker, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Reginald George Armitage, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Frederick Edwin Ashby, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Walter George Gibbs, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant William Nixon Elliott, Unattached List (b) General List.
2nd Lieutenant William Scott-Higginson, Unattached List (b) General List.
2nd Lieutenant John Grierson Foster, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Henry Sorley Maclean, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Walter William Chapman, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Lionel Marmaduke Dixon, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Andrew Douglas Bremner, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Frederick William Medcalf, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Digory Warne Pearce, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Armstrong Edward Pennefather, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Victor R. S. Scott, Unattached List (b), General List.

New Zealand Rifles.

Captain Charles John Hollard, Reserve of Officers, 17th (Ruahine) Regiment.
Lieutenant John Peter Shea, New Zealand Garrison Artillery, Auckland Division.
2nd Lieutenant Thomas Brown, Unattached List (b).
2nd Lieutenant Alexander Hamilton, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant John Patterson Jerrat, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Clifford Long, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant James Harold Clark, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Geoffrey Fitzhardinge Kingscote, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Selwyn Gorton Woods, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Francis Taylor Pennington, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant William Robert Setter, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Charles Cairns Best, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Robert Joseph Grant, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Athelstone Harold Marshall, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Robert Goldsman, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Edward Hulbert, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Alexander Gunn Polson, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant James Russell, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Robert William Turner, Unattached List (b), General List.
2nd Lieutenant Erling Ziesler, Unattached List (b), General List.

New Zealand Army Service Corps.

2nd Lieutenant George Gabriell Stephenson, Unattached List (b), General List.