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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

4TH (OTAGO) REGIMENT.

2nd Lieutenant Alexander Strachan Hart is transferred to the 9th (Hawke’s Bay) Regiment. Dated 17th April, 1919.

9TH (HAWKE’S BAY) REGIMENT.

Captain (temp.) Edward Varley Hudson resigns his commission. Dated 17th April, 1919.

2nd Lieutenant Alexander Strachan Hart from the 4th (Otago) Regiment to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 17th April, 1919.

14TH (SOUTH OTAGO) REGIMENT.

Major Duncan Colquhoun, D.S.O., is posted to the Reserve of Officers (temp.), with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 20th May, 1919.

N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

No. 4 Company.

2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Gifford Sydney Remington from the Unattached List (b), to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 11th April, 1919.

N.Z. FORCES MOTOR SERVICE CORPS.

Motor-car Section (Auckland).

Lieutenant James Alfred Thomson resigns his commission. Dated 23rd April, 1919.

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Reverend Samuel Wilson Currie, Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class, retires under the provisions of paragraphs 126 and 127 (a), General Regulations, 1913, with permission to retain his rank and wear the prescribed uniform. Dated 26th April, 1919.

The Reverend James Samuel Ponder, Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, is retired under the provisions of paragraph 127 (a), General Regulations, 1913. Dated 26th April, 1919.

The undermentioned Chaplains to the Forces, 4th Class, performed the duties of Chaplain in a N.Z. Expeditionary Force training-camp:—

The Reverend Harold Angus Sharp, from 15th August, 1918, to 16th April, 1919.

The Reverend John Thomas Taylor, from 29th October, 1918, to 7th November, 1918.

N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE.

Staff Nurse Ethel Swayne to be Sister. Dated 3rd December, 1917.

Masseuse Eileen Matilda Alice Nelson to be Staff Nurse. Dated 17th April, 1919.

The undermentioned are struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force and posted to the Retired List:—

Sister Ruth Josephine Mirams. Dated 19th April, 1919.

Sister Jean Cormack. Dated 1st April, 1919.

Sister Annie Buckley, A.R.R.C. Dated 1st May, 1919.

Sister Mabel Alleyne. Dated 11th April, 1919.

Sister Anne Catherine Westoby. Dated 2nd April, 1919.

Staff Nurse Barbara Mildred Tilly. Dated 4th April, 1919.

The undermentioned are posted to the Retired List:—

Staff Nurse Elsie Milstead Owen Johnson. Dated 28th January, 1919.

Staff Nurse Agnes Mary Burgess. Dated 10th May, 1919.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).

2nd Lieutenant Roy Gardner, from the 17th (Ruahine) Regiment, to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 22nd March, 1919.

2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Gifford Sydney Remington is transferred to the N.Z. Army Service Corps. Dated 11th April, 1919.

2nd Lieutenant (temp.) William Gilbert resigns his commission. Dated 17th April, 1919.

William Patrick Dumphy to be 2nd Lieutenant (on probation). Dated 23rd April, 1919.

UNATTACHED LIST (b), GENERAL LIST.

Lieutenant (temp.) Arthur Tyndall relinquishes the appointment of Camp Works Engineer Officer in Trentham Camp on the staff of the Director of Railways and Works and the temporary rank of Lieutenant. Dated 14th April, 1919.

Lieutenant George Nelson Moffat is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force and is attached for duty at General Headquarters, with effect from 15th September, 1916.

ADDENDA.

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 35, of 20th March, 1919, relating to Captain Charles Henry Wheeler, M.D., N.Z. Medical Corps, Reserve of Officers, add the words “and is struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force. Dated 21st June, 1917.”

CORRIGENDUM.

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 37, of 27th March, 1919, relating to Major (temp.) Herbert Reginald Ryder, Officer Commanding Tauherenikau Camp, is cancelled, and the following substituted:—

Major (temp.) Herbert Reginald Ryder relinquished the appointment of Officer Commanding Tauherenikau Camp, with effect from 21st November, 1917, and was attached to Headquarters, Featherston Canvas Camp, from 21st November, 1917, to 5th February, 1919, relinquishing the temporary rank of Major in the N.Z. Military Forces from 5th February, 1919.

ERRATUM.

The notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 3, of 16th January, 1919, List 76, N.Z.E.F. Orders, relating to Lieutenant (temp. Captain) F. R. Baker, Auckland Regiment, is cancelled.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Award of Long-service and Good-conduct Medal.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 11th May, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve, in accordance with paragraph 14, Appendix IX, Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces, 1913, of the award of the Long-service and Good-conduct Medal to

No. 941, Sergeant EDWARD HUNTER, Royal New Zealand Artillery.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Empire Day to be observed as a Holiday on King’s Birthday.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 5th May, 1919.

EMPIRE Day will be celebrated on Tuesday, the 3rd June, 1919, the anniversary of the birthday of His Majesty the King, and that day will be observed as a public holiday in the Government offices throughout the Dominion.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Belgian Consulate for the States of New South Wales and Queensland, and the British Possessions in the Pacific, to be in Charge of Hon. Consul of Belgium.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th May, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that Dr. M. Watteeuw, Consul of Belgium at Sydney for the States of New South Wales and Queensland, and the British Possessions in the Pacific, has been transferred, and pending the arrival of a successor the Consulate will be in charge of M. Balthazar, Hon. Consul of Belgium.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Appointment of Consul of Japan at Auckland recognized provisionally.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 8th May, 1919.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that, in accordance with instructions from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has recognized provisionally, pending the receipt of the King’s Exequatur, the appointment of

H. D. HEATHER, Esq., of Auckland,

as Consul for Japan at Auckland.

G. W. RUSSELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

First Meeting, Waitara Fire Board.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 12th May, 1919.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Fire Brigades Act, 1908, I, George Warren Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Dominion of New Zealand, hereby appoint the