JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1863

Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, Resignations, and
Retirements of Officers of the N.Z. Permanent Staff and
Territorial Force.

Department of Defence,
Wellington, 27th May, 1920.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased
to approve of the appointments, promotions, trans-
fers, resignations, and retirements of the undermentioned
officers of the N.Z. Permanent Staff and Territorial Force.

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.

CORPS OF N.Z. ENGINEERS.

N.Z. Post and Telegraph Corps (South Island).
Lieutenant (temp.) Harry Whitehead to be Captain. Dated
18th May, 1920.

N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE.
Staff Nurse Edith Ramsay Webster to be Sister. Dated 8th
April, 1920.

TRANSFERS.

N.Z. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Robert Hattaway is transferred to the Re-
serve of Officers. Dated 7th May, 1920.

11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles.
2nd Lieutenant Eric George Stewart, from the Unattached
List, General List, to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated 6th
May, 1920.

1st (Canterbury) Regiment.
Lieutenant Frederick Frank James Trent is transferred to
the Reserve of Officers. Dated 18th May, 1920.

17th (Ruahine) Regiment.
2nd Lieutenant (Lieutenant, Reserve of Officers, Temporary)
Stanley Frederic Temple, from the N.Z. Rifle Brigade
(Earl of Liverpool’s Own) to be Lieutenant. Dated 14th
May, 1920.

N.Z. RIFLE BRIGADE.
Earl of Liverpool’s Own (Territorial).
2nd Lieutenant (Lieutenant, Reserve of Officers, Temporary)
Stanley Frederic Temple is transferred to the 17th (Ruahine)
Regiment. Dated 14th May, 1920.

N.Z. ARMY NURSING SERVICE.
The undermentioned are struck off the strength of the
N.Z. Expeditionary Force and reposted to the N.Z. Army
Nursing Service. Dated 1st February, 1920 :—
Sisters—
Mary Frances Looney, A.R.R.C.
Jane Letitia Campbell.
Mary Eagle.
Staff Nurse Muriel Florence Gaulstone.

The undermentioned are transferred to the Temporary
Reserve List :—
Sisters—
Mary Frances Looney, A.R.R.C. Dated 14th May, 1920.
Jane Letitia Campbell. Dated 16th May, 1920.
Mary Eagle. Dated 4th June, 1920.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).
2nd Lieutenant Alexander Craig Aitken, from the Reserve
of Officers, General List, to be 2nd Lieutenant. Dated
13th May, 1920.

UNATTACHED LIST, GENERAL LIST.
2nd Lieutenant Eric George Stewart is transferred to the 11th
(North Auckland) Mounted Rifles. Dated 6th May, 1920.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS, GENERAL LIST.
2nd Lieutenant Alexander Craig Aitken is transferred to the
Unattached List (b). Dated 13th May, 1920.

RESIGNATIONS AND RETIREMENTS.

N.Z. PERMANENT STAFF.
Honorary Lieutenant Arthur Albert Browne resigns his
commission. Dated 27th June, 1920.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.
Captain James Sutherland, M.B., is retired, under the pro-
visions of paragraph 127, General Regulations, 1913.
Dated 14th May, 1920.

UNATTACHED LIST (b).
Lieutenant James Walden Wilson resigns his commission.
Dated 15th May, 1920.
2nd Lieutenant James McKerrow Miller resigns his commission.
Dated 12th May, 1920.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS, GENERAL LIST.
Lieutenant James Blyth Austin is posted to the Retired List,
under the provisions of General Headquarters Instructions
No. 22 of 20th February, 1920. Dated 18th May, 1920.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
The undermentioned are transferred to the Reserve of
Officers, under the provisions of General Headquarters In-
structions No. 22 of 20th February, 1920. Dated 1st March,
1920 :—

3RD (AUCKLAND) MOUNTED RIFLES.
Reserve of Officers.
Lieutenant (Captain, Reserve of Officers, Temporary) Hugh
McColl Holden, with the rank of Captain.

8TH (SOUTH CANTERBURY) MOUNTED RIFLES.
Lieutenant (Captain, Reserve of Officers, Temporary) Thomas
Sinclair Gillies, M.C., with the rank of Captain.

9TH (WELLINGTON EAST COAST) MOUNTED RIFLES.
Lieutenant William Leslie Coleman.

11TH (NORTH AUCKLAND) MOUNTED RIFLES.
Lieutenant (Captain, Reserve of Officers, Temporary) Alex-
ander Pringle Speedy, with the rank of Captain.
Lieutenant Frank Norman Whitmore, M.C., with the rank of
Captain.

N.Z. FIELD ARTILLERY.
“A” Battery.
2nd Lieutenant Harry Hector Doughty, with the rank of
Lieutenant.

“D” Battery.
Lieutenant (Captain, Reserve of Officers, Temporary) Gordon
Harris Forsythe, M.B.E., with the rank of Captain.

N.Z. GARRISON ARTILLERY.
Wellington G.A. Division.
2nd Lieutenant Gordon Rae Cowie.

CORPS OF N.Z. ENGINEERS.
No. 2 Field Company.
Captain Alfred Digby-Smith, D.S.O., with the rank of Major.

1ST (CANTERBURY) REGIMENT.
Lieutenant (Lieutenant-Colonel, Reserve of Officers, Tem-
porary) Hugh Stewart, D.S.O., M.C., with the temporary
rank of Colonel.
Lieutenant John Lawson Turnbull, with the rank of Captain.
Lieutenant Montague Harry Tisdall.

2nd (SOUTH CANTERBURY) REGIMENT.
Major Earnest Arthur George Holdgate.
Major Alfred Frank Boys.

3RD (AUCKLAND) REGIMENT (COUNTESS OF RANFURLY’S OWN).
Major Cedric Arthur Herman.
Lieutenant Daniel Joseph Augustus Tole.

5TH (WELLINGTON) REGIMENT.
Lieutenant (Captain, Reserve of Officers, Temporary) Ernest
Belton Tustin, with the rank of Captain.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
Captain (Lieutenant-Colonel, Reserve of Officers, Temporary)
James William Hutchen, C.M.G., C.B.E., with the tem-
porary rank of Colonel.

6TH (HAURAKI) REGIMENT.
Captain Roy Waldo Fry Wood.

7TH (WELLINGTON WEST COAST) REGIMENT.
Captain (Lieutenant-Colonel, Reserve of Officers, Temporary)
Frank Kingdon Turnbull, D.S.O., M.C., with the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel.
2nd Lieutenant (Captain, Reserve of Officers, Temporary)
Frederick Stuart Varnham, M.C., with the rank of Captain.

8TH (SOUTHLAND) REGIMENT.
Reserve of Officers.
Major (Lieutenant-Colonel, Reserve of Officers, Temporary)
John Alexander Mackenzie, C.M.G., with the rank of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel.

9TH (HAWKE’S BAY) REGIMENT.
Captain (Lieutenant-Colonel, Reserve of Officers, Temporary)
Leonard Handforth Jardine, D.S.O., M.C., with the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Honorary Captain and Quartermaster William Fraser, with
the rank of Captain.

12TH (NELSON AND MARLBOROUGH) REGIMENT.
Lieutenant William Benzies.

15TH (NORTH AUCKLAND) REGIMENT.
Captain (Major, Reserve of Officers, Temporary) Alexander
Thomson, M.C., with the rank of Major.

16TH (WAIKATO) REGIMENT.
Lieutenant Keith Longbourne Vickerman, M.C.

17TH (RUAHINE) REGIMENT.
Lieutenant (Captain, Reserve of Officers, Temporary) Edward
Alexander Winchester, M.C., with the rank of Captain.