Jan. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 53

9th (Wellington East Coast) Mounted Rifles.
Captain James Benjamin Poynter is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 3rd December, 1919.

N.Z. Garrison Artillery.
Auckland G.A. Division.
Major Robert Gardner is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 24th November, 1919.

No. 4 Company.
Captain Benjamin John Ager is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 3rd December, 1919.

3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).
Lieutenant William Lees is transferred to the 15th (North Auckland) Regiment. Dated 2nd December, 1919.

5th (Wellington) Regiment.
Lieutenant (Captain, Reserve of Officers, Temporary) John Bosley Bennett is transferred to the Reserve of Officers with the rank of Captain. Dated 21st November, 1919.

6th (Hauraki) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant (Lieutenant, Reserve of Officers, Temporary) Robert Tilsley, M.C., D.C.M., is transferred to the Reserve of Officers with the rank of Lieutenant. Dated 13th November, 1919.

8th (Southland) Regiment.
Major Frederick James William Stewart is transferred to the Reserve of Officers. Dated 28th November, 1919.

15th (North Auckland) Regiment.
Lieutenant William Lees, from the 3rd (Auckland) Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own), to be Lieutenant. Dated 2nd December, 1919.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).
The undermentioned are transferred to the Reserve of Officers, General List :—
2nd Lieutenant Albert Charles Richards. Dated 24th November, 1919.
2nd Lieutenant Ernest William White. Dated 6th December, 1919.

RESIGNATIONS AND RETIREMENTS.
N.Z. Staff Corps.
Lieutenant Edward Purdon resigns his commission. Dated 30th November, 1919.

6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles.
The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) George Frank Ranby lapses under the provisions of paragraph 89, General Regulations, 1913. Dated 26th November, 1919.
The commission of 2nd Lieutenant (temp.) Hans Alexander Martin is cancelled under the provisions of section 5 (a) of the Defence Act, 1909. Dated 26th November, 1919.

Corps of N.Z. Engineers.
N.Z. Railway Battalions (North Island).
2nd Lieutenant Charles Lewis Blackburn resigns his commission. Dated 28th November, 1919.

N.Z. Post and Telegraph Corps.
South Island Battalion.
Captain Louis James Carmine resigns his commission. Dated 3rd December, 1919.
2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Alfred Leslie resigns his appointment. Dated 2nd December, 1919.

N.Z. Forces Motor Service Corps.
Motor-car Section (Canterbury).
Lieutenant Percy Lewis Hallenstein resigns his commission. Dated 8th December, 1919.

N.Z. Dental Corps.
Honorary Captain Henry Rattray relinquishes the appointment of Deputy Assistant Director of Dental Services, Canterbury Military District, and the honorary rank of Captain. Dated 15th December, 1919.

N.Z. Army Nursing Service.
The undermentioned are struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force and posted to the Temporary Reserve List :—

Sisters.
Amelia Catherine Douglas, A.R.R.C. Dated 1st June, 1919.
Edith Grace Hay. Dated 24th November, 1919.
May McGee. Dated 24th September, 1919.
Edith Jean Thomson (Masseuse). Dated 4th January, 1920.
Gertrude Kate Garrard. Dated 25th December, 1919.
Elizabeth Smailes. Dated 28th December, 1919.
Ellen Mary Gebbie. Dated 28th December, 1919.
Ida Parkinson. Dated 29th October, 1919.
Amelia Prior Don. Dated 28th December, 1919.
Edith Annie Smith. Dated 7th November, 1919.
Svea Marie Viktoria Fogelin. Dated 26th November, 1919.
Helena Mary Newton. Dated 11th December, 1919.
Ellen Tuke. Dated 12th December, 1919.
Fanny Abbott. Dated 7th January, 1920.
Elsie Mary Emily Cooke. Dated 21st November, 1919.

Staff Nurses.
Selina Bertha Thomson. Dated 1st November, 1919.
Caroline Mary Wallace. Dated 1st November, 1919.
Alice Mary Rowntree. Dated 6th December, 1919.
Elizabeth Loosmore Baker. Dated 5th December, 1919.
Florence Winifred Upton. Dated 10th January, 1917.
Gertrude Ivy Baker. Dated 1st October, 1919.
Rita Janette Binsted. Dated 1st December, 1919.
Mary Hancock. Dated 1st December, 1919.
Isabel Couldrey Keys. Dated 5th December, 1919.
Margaret Ethel Ramsay Smith. Dated 12th January, 1920.
Elizabeth Cairns. Dated 31st October, 1919.
Isabella Burt. Dated 31st October, 1919.
Aileen Catherine Miller. Dated 17th December, 1919.
Marion McNicol. Dated 22nd October, 1919.
Frances Martha Shirtcliffe. Dated 22nd October, 1919.
Margaret May Daw. Dated 22nd November, 1919.
Winifred Ellen Waite. Dated 12th October, 1919.
Eleanor Coutts. Dated 12th December, 1919.
Violet Oppenheim. Dated 26th November, 1919.
Mary Isobel Saunders. Dated 14th December, 1919.
Margaret Hepple Thomson. Dated 26th November, 1919.
Charlotte Adams. Dated 25th December, 1919.
Elaine Howell Taine. Dated 20th October, 1919.
Irene Katherine Honeyfield. Dated 2nd December, 1919.
Gertrude Jackson. Dated 24th September, 1919.
Catherine Lynette MacKenzie. Dated 30th September, 1919.
Marion Barbara Garland. Dated 31st October, 1919.
Euphemia Laidlaw McGibbon. Dated 7th December, 1919.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).
Honorary Lieutenant Cecil Dare Bridge relinquishes the appointment of Officer in Charge Camp Records, and the honorary rank of Lieutenant, dated 3rd September, 1919, and is demobilized. Dated 1st October, 1919.

UNATTACHED LIST, GENERAL LIST.
Captain William Watson, M.C., is posted to the Retired List, under the provisions of General Headquarters Instructions No. 21, of 1st July, 1919. Dated 2nd December, 1919.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS (TEMPORARY).
The undermentioned Lieutenants relinquish their commissions :—
Benjamin West. Dated 24th November, 1919.
Randolph Norman Gray, M.C., M.M. Dated 29th November, 1919.

OFFICERS STRUCK OFF STRENGTH OF N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.
The undermentioned are struck off the strength of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force with effect from the dates mentioned :—
Lieutenant-Colonel (temp. Colonel) Charles Ernest Randolph Mackesy, C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O., relinquishes the temporary rank of Colonel. Dated 23rd November, 1919.
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Anderson Hunter, C.B.E. Dated 28th January, 1920.

Majors.
Harry McKellar Whyte Richardson, D.S.O., M.C. Dated 18th September, 1919.
Cedric Arthur Herman. Dated 28th July, 1919.
Jack Beaumont Le Mottee. Dated 23rd November, 1919.

Captains.
John Cecil Hill. Dated 1st December, 1919.
Percy Frank Phillips. Dated 14th December, 1919.
Captain (temp. Major) John Robert Cade, M.C., and relinquishes the temporary rank of Major. Dated 23rd November, 1919.
Lieutenant (temp. Captain) Charles Horatio Nelson, and relinquishes the temporary rank of Captain. Dated 27th November, 1919