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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 5

Registrars of Births, &c., appointed.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 14th January, 1918.

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

JAMES THOMAS WILLIAM COLLIER

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Waimate Plains, as from the 22nd December, 1917.

ALBERT ERNEST MOORE

to be Registrar of Births and Deaths and Vaccination Inspector for the District of Devonport, as from the 23rd December, 1917.

LEONARD VICOROUS SAMUELS

to be Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, and Vaccination Inspector, for the District of Kahukura, as from the 5th January, 1918.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Appointment of Officers of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 9th January, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the appointment to the N.Z. Expeditionary Force of the undermentioned officers proceeding on active service. Dated the 24th December, 1917, unless otherwise specified.

INFANTRY.

Captain John Charles McKillop, 9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.

Lieutenant Barnard Calcott Kirk, 11th Taranaki Rifles.

Lieutenant John Ralph Taylor, 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles.

2nd Lieutenant John Worrel Langridge, Unattached List (b), General List, returns to duty.

2nd Lieutenant William John Rusden Hill, Unattached List (b), General List. Dated 11th May, 1917.

2nd Lieutenant John Findlayson, Unattached List (b), General List. Dated 17th May, 1917.

2nd Lieutenant James Alexander McDonald, 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant James Joseph Trainer, Unattached List (b).

2nd Lieutenant George Marshall Don, 5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars).

2nd Lieutenant Clarence Lawson Lane, 15th (North Auckland) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant John Lindsay Lethbridge, 5th Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars).

2nd Lieutenant Keith Longburn Vickerman, 16th (Waikato) Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant Aubrey Counsell Stephens, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Robert Barnes Gibbons, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Henry Carleton Williams, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant John Peter Hawke, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Thomas Howard Thorp, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Stanley Keith Siddels, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Rupert Cyril Moore, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Archibald Harry Denne, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant James Hall White, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant William Daly Revington, Unattached List (b), General List.

NEW ZEALAND MAORI PIONEER BATTALION.

2nd Lieutenant Charles Goldsmith, Unattached List (b), General List. Dated 14th July, 1917.

NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS.

Captain William David Stoney Johnston, M.B., B.S., Edin.

NEW ZEALAND ARMY NURSING SERVICE.

Staff Nurse Amy Elizabeth Bennett.

Staff Nurse Ethel Lewis.

Staff Nurse Gertrude Ivy Barker.

Staff Nurse Nora Kathleen Dempsey.

Staff Nurse Amy Harris.

CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Reverend Michael Andrew Murphy, Chaplain to the Forces (4th Class).

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

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

Wellington, 9th January, 1918.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the appointments, promotions, and transfers of officers of the N.Z. Staff Corps and Territorial Force.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Henry Peacock, N.Z. Staff Corps, is granted the temporary rank of Major whilst holding the appointment of Camp Commandant, Narrow Neck Camp. Dated 6th December, 1917.

Major Daniel James Sweetzer, Special Reserve Imperial Army (Retired List), relinquished the appointment of Infantry Instructor in N.Z. Expeditionary Force training-camps as from 11th July, 1917, and performed the duties of Camp Adjutant, Featherston Camp, from that date to 2nd December, 1917, and is appointed Camp Adjutant, Trentham Camp, with effect from 3rd December, 1917.

Captain (temp. Major) Francis Henry Lampen, N.Z. Staff Corps, relinquishes the appointment of Camp Adjutant, Trentham Camp, as from 2nd December, 1917, and is appointed to the Instructional Staff, N.Z. Expeditionary Force training-camps, with effect from the same date, and retains the temporary rank of Major whilst so employed.

2nd Lieutenant Charles Gray, 11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles), is granted the temporary rank of Captain whilst holding the appointment of Assistant Provost-Marshal in a Military District. Dated 6th December, 1917.

Captain James Sutherland, M.B., M.S., Edin., N.Z. Medical Corps, is appointed a member of a Special District Medical Board and granted the pay of Lieut.-Colonel at Expeditionary Force rates whilst so acting. Dated 25th July, 1917.

PROMOTIONS AND TRANSFERS.

NEW ZEALAND ARMY PAY DEPARTMENT.

Staff Sergeant Gerald Cave Boyes is granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant (temp.), and is attached to the N.Z. Army Pay Department whilst in charge of a section (Transport Accounts) at the War Expenses Branch. Dated 3rd August, 1917.

Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant Charles Arthur Head is granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant (temp.), and is attached to the N.Z. Army Pay Department whilst employed as Assistant Paymaster, N.Z. Expeditionary Force training-camps. Dated 6th December, 1917.

3RD (AUCKLAND) MOUNTED RIFLES.

Lieutenant Hugh McColl Holden, Reserve of Officers, ceases to be attached for duty. Dated 25th July, 1917.

4TH (WAIKATO) MOUNTED RIFLES.

2nd Lieutenant William Edward Anderson to be Lieutenant. Dated 11th December, 1917.

With reference to the notification published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 176, of the 6th December, 1917, relating to Captain James George Berry, Lieutenants William Fletcher Wallis, Francis James Short, James Thomas Tabb (Reserve of Officers), for the words “Dated 27th October, 1917,” read “Dated 27th October, 1914.”

6TH (MANAWATU) MOUNTED RIFLES.

Major John Adam Somerville, N.Z. Expeditionary Force, is struck off the strength, with effect from 21st January, 1918, and is absorbed into the establishment, with his original rank and seniority therein—viz., Captain, as from the 24th January, 1916 (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 58, of the 11th May, 1916).

CORPS OF NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS.

No. 1 Field Company.

Sergeant James Leonard Davis to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 14th December, 1917.

NEW ZEALAND POST AND TELEGRAPH CORPS.

South Island Battalion.

Sergeant-major Aubrey Dormer Baggs to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 14th December, 1917.