JUNE 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2319

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.

Captain (temp. Major) Joseph Livingstone Frazer-Hurst to be Major. Dated 3rd June, 1917.

Louis Levy, M.B., to be Captain (temp.). Dated 20th May, 1915.

Ernest Harry Williams, M.B., M.R.C.S., Eng., to be Captain (temp.). Dated 25th May, 1918.

Captain (temp.) Donald McDonald Wilson, M.C., M.B., Edin., whilst acting as a member of a Special District Medical Board, to receive the pay of Lieutenant-Colonel at Expeditionary Force rates, with effect from 25th May, 1918.

Captain (temp.) Allan Cameron Owen, M.D., whilst acting as a member of a Special District Medical Board, to receive the pay of Lieutenant-Colonel at Expeditionary Force rates, with effect from 14th May, 1918.

N.Z. VETERINARY CORPS.

Captain Alexander Adair Johnson is posted for duty to the 1st Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry). Dated 30th May, 1918.

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Right Reverend William Charles Sadlier, Chaplain to the Forces, 2nd Class, to be Chaplain to the Forces, 1st Class (temp.), whilst employed on special duty with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. Dated 24th May, 1918.

The Reverend Leo James Daly, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, with effect from 5th July, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority—viz., Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, as from 1st February, 1915 (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 30, of the 25th February, 1915).

The Reverend Herbert Louis Barton Goertz to be Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class. Dated 31st May, 1918.

N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE.

The undermentioned Staff Nurse having married, her name is as now stated :—

Staff Nurse Emily Edwina Ross, nee Beattie.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).

Captain Reginald William Fisher is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, with effect from 6th June, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority—viz., Captain, as from 12th December, 1915 (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 38, of the 6th April, 1916).

Lieutenant Alexander Knox Anderson to be Captain. Dated 11th February, 1917.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants :—

Henry Vincent Foster. Dated 23rd September, 1917.

Mervyn Wells. Dated 15th February, 1918.

Company Sergeant-Major Gavin Eugene Pollock to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 28th May, 1918.

2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Carl Albert Poulsen resigns his appointment. Dated 22nd May, 1918.

UNATTACHED LIST (b), GENERAL LIST.

Lieutenant Francis Joseph Traynor is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, with effect from 25th May, 1918, and is posted with his original rank and seniority—viz., 2nd Lieutenant, as from 11th November, 1916.

2nd Lieutenant Augustus Ofa Talan Chamberlain is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, with effect from 25th June, 1918, and is absorbed with his original rank and seniority—viz., 2nd Lieutenant, as from 4th December, 1916 (vide New Zealand Gazette No. 150, of the 4th October, 1917).

2nd Lieutenant William Thomas Longhurst resigns his commission. Dated 22nd May, 1918.

CORRIGENDA.

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazettes No. 115, of the 12th July, 1917, and No. 37, of the 14th March, 1918, relating to 2nd Lieutenant Henry Masterton Clark, for the words “Unattached List (b), General List” read “Corps of N.Z. Engineers, No. 3 Field Company.”

With reference to the notification published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 76, of the 23rd May, 1918, relating to Major John Llewellyn Saunders, D.S.O., 1st (Canterbury) Regiment, for the words “Permanent Officer Commanding Troopship” read “Permanent Officer Commanding Troops on Board a Troopship.”

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 28, of the 28th February, 1918, “Appointments, Promotions, and Transfers of Officers on Active Service with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force,” under the heading “N.Z. Rifle Brigade,” for the words “2nd Lieutenant W. G. Hendry” read “2nd Lieutenant W. G. Henry.”

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 179, of the 13th December, 1917, “Appointments, Promotions, and Transfers of Officers on Active Service with the N.Z. Expeditionary Force,” relating to Captain Herbert Henry Whyte, N.Z. Field Artillery, for the words “Dated 5th September, 1917,” read “Dated 15th September, 1917.”

ERRATUM.

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 71, of the 19th April, 1917, “Appointments of Officers proceeding on Active Service, N.Z. Expeditionary Force,” the seniority in the Mounted Rifles is as now stated :—

2nd Lieutenant Charles Joseph Harris, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Francis Gordon Treweek, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Edward Aroha Boscowan, Unattached List (b), General List.

MEMORANDUM.

Colonel the Honourable George John Smith, C.B.E. (d), performed the duties of Officer Commanding Auckland Military District from 7th January, 1918, to 11th March, 1918, vice Colonel George Warren Shaw Patterson, on leave.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence

Appointment of Officers to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 19th June, 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. Seniority to date from 5th June, 1918, unless otherwise specified.

PERMANENT OFFICER COMMANDING TROOPS ON BOARD A TRANSPORT.

Lieutenant - Colonel Edwin Heat Saunders, 17th (Ruahine) Regiment.

INFANTRY.

The undermentioned return to duty :—

2nd Lieutenant Ernest Reginald Pountney, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Lewis Allison Morison, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Malcolm Reid Stewart, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Stephen Dominic Rice, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Leslie Gerald Hill, Unattached List (b), General List.

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

2nd Lieutenant Frank Douglas Barron, N.Z. Rifle Brigade (T).

2nd Lieutenant Ernest Roy Fitzsimmons, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Victor Raymond Bernard, N.Z. Rifle Brigade (T).

2nd Lieutenant Geoffrey Innes Parker, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Douglas Alfred Raeburn, N.Z. Rifle Brigade (T).

2nd Lieutenant Allen Illingworth Leyland, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant John William Flood, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Frank Maxwell Jenkins, Unattached List (b), General List.

2nd Lieutenant Reginald Gillon Christophers, Unattached List (b), is posted for duty.

N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

2nd Lieutenant John Victor Curtis, Unattached List (b), General List.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.

Lieutenant Robert Milne Wishart, M.D.

N.Z. DENTAL CORPS.

Captain Roy Edward Bridgman.

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Reverend Edward Charles Woolridge Powell, Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class, returns to duty.

The Reverend Eric Dudley Rice, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class,