Feb. 28.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 623

Rupert Ingram Sutton. Dated 12th March, 1917.
Henry Kiver Allison. Dated 28th May, 1917.
Charles Cecil Moffett. Dated 28th May, 1917.
George Kilgour Ingelow Stocker. Dated 12th June, 1917.
Robert Foster Johnston. Dated 26th April, 1917.
Torrance Parkinson Cuddie. Dated 12th June, 1917.
Frederick Charles Tibbs. Dated 13th August, 1917.
William James Renton. Dated 14th July, 1917.
Martin, John Ryan. Dated 5th April, 1917.
Howard, Charles Edwards. Dated 2nd April, 1917.
Charles Kay Ward. Dated 6th May, 1917.
Eric Spencer Bayley. Dated 20th September, 1917.
Arthur George Jones. Dated 14th July, 1917.

NEW ZEALAND CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Reverend John Robert Burgin, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, to be Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class. Dated 21st July, 1917.

The Reverend Graham Roy Barnett, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from the 22nd February, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority—viz., Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, as from 20th December, 1916 (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 11, of the 25th January, 1917).

NEW ZEALAND ARMY NURSING SERVICE.

The undermentioned to be Staff Nurses:—
Emily Harriett Douglass. Dated 6th November, 1917.
Ruth Lindsay. Dated 4th February, 1918.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants:—
Clifford Anderson Rowe. Dated 26th June, 1917.
Matthew Prust Stewart. Dated 26th June, 1917.
Harold William Webb. Dated 13th January, 1918.

Company Sergeant-Major Allan Barnard Ross to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 31st January, 1918.

Sergeant Walter Webb Pulman Pearce to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp). Dated 4th February, 1918.

UNATTACHED LIST (b), GENERAL LIST.

Lieutenant Valentine Stocker, M.C., N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from 28th January, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority—viz., 2nd Lieutenant, as from 1st March, 1916, (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 150, of the 4th October, 1917).

2nd Lieutenant Richard Gerald Godfrey Westenra, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from 4th March, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority—viz., 2nd Lieutenant, as from 13th January, 1917 (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 11, of the 25th January, 1917).

2nd Lieutenant John Anderson, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from 1st March, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority—viz., 2nd Lieutenant, as from the 21st December, 1916 (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 132, of the 23rd August, 1917).

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 150, of the 4th October, 1917, relating to the undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants is cancelled:—
John Joseph Moore. Dated 7th July, 1916.
Maurice Archibald Stedman. Dated 12th July, 1916.
Thomas James Denton. Dated 9th August, 1916.

The undermentioned officers are transferred to the N.Z. Rifle Brigade (Earl of Liverpool’s Own), Territorial, with effect from the dates specified:—
Captain Christopher Robert Alexander Magnay. Dated 1st February, 1916.

Lieutenants. Dated 1st October, 1915,—
Harold Eric Barrowclough.
Humphrey Holderness.
Paul Austin Elder.
Nathaniel John Reed.
Ronald Gordon Gallien.

Lieutenants. Dated 1st February, 1916,—
Kenneth Allan Henderson.
Noel Storrier Johnson.
Kenneth Cameron Clayton.

2nd Lieutenants. Dated 1st October, 1915,—
George Augustus Avey.
John Spearman D’Hauteville Birkby.
George McLean Wilford.
James Alexander Daniel Hopkirk.
Edward Holdsworth Buckeridge.
Joseph Leo McAlister.
George Brown Macmoran.
Frank George Massey.
William Lind Mitchell.

Norman Angus.
Neil Lloyd Macky.
Arthur Clifton Adford Sexton.
John Lawton Prescott.
Claude James Hunter Davidson.
Douglas Wiremu McClurg.

2nd Lieutenant. Dated 1st February, 1916,—
William Arthur Gray.
Cyprian Everard Bridge.
Charles Luke Mullaney.
Clive Duncan Philip Topliss.
Harold Wallis Shackleford.
Frederick Robert Kennedy Waring.
John Gladstone Greenwood.
Donald Kennedy.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS (GENERAL LIST.)

Lieutenant Guy Featherstone Johnston, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from 21st January, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank—viz., Lieutenant, as from 20th September, 1910.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 23rd February, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service Medal to

Major ALEXANDER GERALD BEERE, 9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment,

he having a total service to the 6th September, 1917, entitling him thereto, of twenty-one years two hundred and fifty-six days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Meritorious-service Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 20th February, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 12, Appendix IX, Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, 1913, of the award of a Meritorious-service Medal to

No. 533, Regimental Sergeant-Major HAMMOND FRASER VALENTINE, Royal N.Z. Artillery.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 22nd February, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers’ Decoration to

Major JAMES McNAUGHT, 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to the 29th January, 1918, entitling him thereto, of twenty years one hundred and ninety-six days.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Funds for the Purchase or Erection of Soldiers’ Clubs declared to be War Funds.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 21st February, 1918.

PURSUANT to section 2 of the War Funds Act, 1915, I, George Warren Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby declare any fund to be established for the purchase of landed property or the erection of buildings for the purposes of Returned Soldiers’ Clubs to be a war fund within the meaning of the said War Funds Act, 1915.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.