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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 12

6TH (HAURAKI) REGIMENT.

Lieutenant Guy Norman Morris from the Unattached List (b),
to be Lieutenant. Dated 19th December, 1917.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Henry Thomas Gibson to be Lieu-
tenant (temp.). Dated 18th January, 1918.

11TH REGIMENT (TARANAKI RIFLES).

Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Harold Fletcher, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength with effect from
17th January, 1918, and is absorbed into the establishment
with his original rank and seniority therein, viz., Major,
as from 16th October, 1912, vide New Zealand Gazette
No. 82, of the 7th November, 1912.

N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

2nd Lieutenant Cecil Francis Jellie (No. 4 Company) to be
Lieutenant. Dated 11th January, 1918.
Lieutenant William Wilson McKinney (No. 9 Company) is
transferred to No. 7 Company. Dated 10th August, 1916.
Lieutenant William Wilson McKinney (No. 7 Company) to
be Captain. Dated 12th January, 1918.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.

Thomas Stewart, M.D., Univ. Edin., is granted the temporary
rank of Captain. Dated 7th January, 1918.

N.Z. DENTAL CORPS.

Lieutenant Ruskin Burritt Cranwell is granted the temporary
rank of Captain whilst employed at Dental Hospital,
Featherston Camp. Dated 18th January, 1918.

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Venerable Archdeacon Thomas Samuel Grace, Chaplain
to the Forces, lst Class, retires under the provisions of
paragraphs 126 and 127, General Regulations, 1913.
Dated 17th January, 1918.

N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE.

Staff Nurse Janet Nicholson McGhie is struck off the strength
of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force and is posted to the Re-
tired List. Dated 11th December, 1917.
The undermentioned to be Staff Nurses. Dated 12th
January, 1918:-
Frances Ann Taylor.
Susan Fanny Crompton.
Winifred Ellen Waite.
Margaret May Daw.
Alice Keyte.
Mai Hodges.
Bertha Shaw.
Hilda Irene North.
Eva Adeline Wallace.
Katherine Wylie.
Grace Margaret Lange.
Charlotte Leslie McIntyre.
Winifred Wilson.
Mary Hancock.
Isabella Burt.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).

Lieutenant Harman Ernest Gilbert Smith to be Captain.
Dated lst December, 1917.
Lieutenant Sidney King, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck
off the strength, with effect from 18th February, 1918,
and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority-viz.,
Lieutenant, as from 23rd April, 1916 (vide New Zealand
Gazette No. 78, of the 20th July, 1916).
Lieutenant Guy Norman Morris is transferred to the 6th
(Hauraki) Regiment. Dated 19th December, 1917.
Sergeant-Major Gordon Whitmore Nelson to be 2nd Lieu-
tenant. Dated 18th January, 1918.
Robert Joseph Mackenna to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.).
Dated 12th January, 1918.
The Christian name of 2nd Lieutenant Reginald John McGee
is as now described, and not as stated in New Zealand
Gazette No. 179, of 13th December, 1917.

UNATTACHED LIST (b), GENERAL LIST.

John Maitland Gillespie is granted the temporary rank of
Captain whilst doing duty with the N.Z. Expeditionary
Force, Samoa. Dated 14th August, 1916.
Lieutenant Leonard Parkinson, M.C., N.Z. Expeditionary
Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from 8th
February, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and
seniority-viz., 2nd Lieutenant, as from 9th August, 1916
(vide New Zealand Gazette No. 150, of the 4th October,
1917).
2nd Lieutenant Harold Speight, M.C., N.Z. Expeditionary
Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from 18th

February, 1918, and it absorbed with his original rank and
seniority-viz., 2nd Lieutenant-as from 24th July, 1916
(vide New Zealand Gazette No. 150, of the 4th October,
1917).
2nd Lieutenant Stephen Francis Newcome Waymouth, N.Z.
Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength, with effect
from 9th February, 1918, and is absorbed with his original
rank and seniority-viz., 2nd Lieutenant-as from 29th
July, 1916 (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 47, of the 15th
March, 1917).
2nd Lieutenant Cecil William Jones, N.Z. Expeditionary
Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from 18th Feb-
ruary, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and
seniority-viz., 2nd Lieutenant-as from 23rd September,
1916 (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 107, of the 21st Sep-
tember, 1916).

MEMORANDA.

Captain William Hobbs is struck off the strength of the N.Z.
Expeditionary Force, with effect from 9th February, 1918.
The undermentioned are posted for duty with the N.Z.
Expeditionary Force. Dated 24th January, 1918:

N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE.

22/206, Staff Nurse Ethel Jennings.
22/455, Staff Nurse Frances Ann Taylor.
22/456, Staff Nurse Susan Fanny Crompton.
22/466, Staff Nurse Winifred Ellen Waite.
22/462, Staff Nurse Margaret May Daw.
22/467, Staff Nurse Alice Keyte.
22/468, Staff Nurse Mai Hodges.
22/469, Staff Nurse Bertha Shaw.
22/470, Staff Nurse Hilda Irene North.
22/464, Staff Nurse Eva Adeline Wallace.
22/463, Staff Nurse Katherine Wylie.
22/471, Staff Nurse Grace Margaret Lange.

The undermentioned are posted for duty with H.M.N.Z.
Hospital Ship "Marama." Dated 29th January, 1918:

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Reverend Robert Franklin, Chaplain to the Forces,
4th Class.

N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE.

Staff Nurse Margaret E. Herbert.

ERRATUM.

With reference to the notification published in the New Zea-
land Gazette No. 5, of 17th January, 1918, relating to 2nd
Lieutenant John Worrell Langridge, for the words “2nd
Lieutenant” read “Lieutenant.”

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Precedence and Wearing of Badges of Companions of the
Orders of the Bath, the Star of India, Saint Michael and
Saint George, and the Indian Empire.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 28th January, 1918.

THE following despatch, received from the Secretary of
State for the Colonies, is published for general informa-
tion.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Received 20th December, 1917.-G.H. No. 3380/17.-
G.H.N.Z.

(New Zealand.-Honours.)

Downing Street, 17th October, 1917.
My LORD,-I have the honour to transmit to Your Excel-
lency copies of a notification dated 1st June last, issued from
the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, prescribing
the manner in which the badge of the Third Class or Com-
panions of the Orders of the Bath, the Star of India, Saint
Michael and Saint George, and the Indian Empire shall
in the future be worn, and of a further notification dated
10th August with regard to the manner in which the cost of
the necessary alterations in the badges of Companions may
be defrayed.
2. I have to explain that, as indicated in the first of these
notices, the change is due to His Majesty's decision that
henceforward the grade of Companion in these four Orders
should rank as senior to that of Commander in other Orders
which are later in date. The effect is to place the rank of
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order lower than that
of the Companionships in question. His Majesty’s com-
mends so far as they affect Companions of the Order of Saint
Michael and Saint George, which may be of more particular