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Zealand Roll’’ to their home units, with their local rank and seniority. This will take effect as from the date following that on which their ordinary leave expires. Officers so transferred will be struck off the ‘‘ New Zealand Roll ’’ from that date, and will cease to draw pay and allowances at Expeditionary Force rates. If required by Headquarters to take up temporary appointments in New Zealand, they will do so with the ranks and at the rates of pay assigned to the appointments by the Commandant of the Forces. Pay will commence from the date of their taking up such appointments.

35E. Officers, other than those of the N.Z.S.C. and R.N.Z.A., who are declared by the Medical Board to be ‘‘ still unfit for active or home service ’’ three months after their arrival in New Zealand are to be struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and of their home units, and their names placed on the Retired List in the New Zealand Army List, with the rank held in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force or home unit, whichever is the higher; this will take effect from a date three months after their arrival in the Dominion.

35F. Officers of the N.Z.S.C. or R.N.Z.A. returned invalided, and declared fit for active service by the Medical Board, will be attached to the Training Camps, if Headquarters intends them to return to the front with reinforcements.

If required for duty in New Zealand they will be transferred to the N.Z. Staff Corps or R.N.Z.A., with their substantive Staff Corps or R.N.Z.A. rank and seniority, as from the date of taking up such duty; but if subsequently required to rejoin the Expeditionary Force they will do so with their former rank and seniority therein.

35G. Officers of the N.Z.S.C. or R.N.Z.A. who are declared by the Medical Board to be temporarily or permanently unfit for active service, but fit for home service, will be transferred to the N.Z.S.C. or R.N.Z.A., and will resume their substantive N.Z.S.C. or R.N.Z.A. rank and seniority on the date they take up local duty.

35H. Officers of the N.Z.S.C. or R.N.Z.A. who, three months after landing in the Dominion, are declared by a Medical Board to be ‘‘ still unfit for active or home service ’’ will be transferred to the N.Z.S.C. or R.N.Z.A., with their substantive N.Z.S.C. or R.N.Z.A. rank and seniority, as from that date, and their cases will be considered by Headquarters with a view to their retirement on pension and superannuation.

35I. Warrant officers and N.C.O.s of the R.N.Z.A. or N.Z.P.S. who return to New Zealand as commissioned officers on the ‘‘ New Zealand Roll ’’ of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force will, unless detailed by Headquarters to again proceed abroad with reinforcements, be transferred to the R.N.Z.A. or N.Z.P.S., and will revert to their previous rank and seniority therein, as from the date upon which their leave expires. Their names will be recorded on the Retired List in the New Zealand Army List, in the ranks held on the date of their being struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and on leaving the R.N.Z.A. or N.Z.P.S. they may resume that rank.

35J. Warrant officers and N.C.O.s of the R.N.Z.A. or N.Z.P.S. who, three months after landing in the Dominion, are declared by a Medical Board to be ‘‘ still unfit for active or home service ’’ will be transferred from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to the R.N.Z.A. or N.Z.P.S., and their cases will be considered by Headquarters with a view to their retirement on pension and superannuation.

35K. On the New Zealand Expeditionary Force being disbanded a number of vacancies for Lieutenants in the N.Z.S.C. and R.N.Z.A. will be thrown open to the Warrant Officers and N.C.O.s of the R.N.Z.A. and N.Z.P.S. Appointments to these vacancies will be made on the results of a competitive examination.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, in the presence of—

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Honorary Crown Lands Ranger appointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 28th February, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 29 of the Land Act, 1908, been pleased to appoint

ALEXANDER ANDERSON,

of Pounawea, to be an Honorary Crown Lands Ranger for the Land District of Otago.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

Member of Christchurch Domain Board resigned.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 5th March, 1917.

HIS Excellency the Governor has accepted the resignation of

EDWARD GEORGE LEVINGE, M.D.,

as a member of the Christchurch Domain Board.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.