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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 21

Appointments and Transfers of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Department,
Wellington, 7th March, 1940.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments, promotions, confirmations, transfers, and relinquishments of commissions of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force :-

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH.

Promotion.

Acting Flight Lieutenant John William Henry Bray is granted the temporary rank of Flight Lieutenant. Dated 1st January, 1940.

Confirmations.

The undermentioned officers are confirmed in their appointments on the dates shown :-

Temporary Flight Lieutenant John William Henry Bray.
Temporary Flight Lieutenant Ian Gordon Morrison. Dated 31st January, 1940.

Pilot Officer Robert Steel Grant (T.A.F.), B.E. Dated 27th October, 1939.

Pilot Officer Alfred Louis Cadman (T.A.F.). Dated 8th November, 1939.

Pilot Officer George Clifton Lewis (T.A.F.). Dated 14th November, 1939.

Pilot Officer John Roy Butcher (T.A.F.). Dated 1st December, 1939.

Pilot Officer Wilfred Arthur Hopkins (T.A.F.). Dated 4th February, 1940.

Flying Officer Maurice Howard Clare (Reserve of Officers). Dated 1st March, 1940.

Flying Officer Edgar Francis Harvie (Reserve of Officers). Dated 1st January, 1940.

Appointment to and Relinquishment of Commission.

Matthew William Coxon is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Pilot Officer (on probation) as from the 14th February, 1940, and relinquishes his commission as from the 29th February, 1940.

Relinquishments of Commissions.

The undermentioned Pilot Officers (on probation) relinquish their temporary commissions. Dated 28th February, 1940 :-

Leslie Alexander McLellan Symonds.
Clive Benis Linn.

Transfer to Retired List.

Flight Lieutenant Jack Mulcock Buckeridge (temporary commission, ex R.N.Z.A.F., Retired List) is transferred to the Retired List. Dated 1st March, 1940.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH.

Confirmations.

The undermentioned officers are confirmed in their appointments on the dates shown :-

Flying Officer George Michael Ivo Adams.
Flying Officer William Dale Aherne.
Flying Officer Arthur John Baber.
Flying Officer Francis John McWhinnie.
Flying Officer Gordon Henry Douglas.
Flying Officer Alfred Benjamin Lindop.
Flying Officer Rex Beresford Potter.

Dated 15th February, 1940.

Flight Lieutenant Graham Brook Bell, B.E., B.Sc., A.M.I.C.E. (T.A.F.). Dated 15th September, 1939.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH.

Appointments.

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the ranks shown. Dated 1st March, 1940 :-

Bruce Robert Rae, as Flight Lieutenant.
Henry Hogg McLean, as Flying Officer.

MEDICAL BRANCH.

Relinquishment of Appointment.

Major John Martin Twigg, N.Z.M.C., relinquishes the appointment of Assistant Director of Medical Services (Air). Dated 27th February, 1940.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointments to the Second N.Z. Expeditionary Force.

Army Department,
Wellington, 9th March, 1940.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments to the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force and that the officers be seconded from the units shown after their names. All ranks are temporary :-

HEADQUARTERS, 5TH NEW ZEALAND INFANTRY BRIGADE.

Colonel J. Hargest, D.S.O., M.C., V.D. (Reserve of Officers). Dated 10th February, 1940.

Major G. H. Clifton, M.C. (New Zealand Staff Corps). Dated 13th February, 1940.

28TH (MAORI) BATTALION.

Captain L. J. Bell (The Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles). Dated 1st February, 1940.

Captain H. F. Smith (The Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles). Dated 1st February, 1940.

5TH FIELD AMBULANCE.

Lieutenant C. M. Mules, M.B., Ch.B. (New Zealand Medical Corps). Dated 2nd December, 1939.

1ST NEW ZEALAND GENERAL HOSPITAL.

Lieutenant R. D. Keenan, M.B., Ch.B. Dated 16th February, 1940.

Lieutenant P. N. R. McDonald. Dated 13th February, 1940.

1ST NEW ZEALAND CONVALESCENT DEPOT.

Lieutenant J. K. F. Watson, M.B., Ch.B. Dated 13th February, 1940.

Lieutenant C.S. Preston, M.B., Ch.B. Dated 13th February, 1940.

Lieutenant C. R. Cameron (Retired List). Dated 14th February, 1940.

NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS.

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 14 of the 22nd February, 1940, relative to the granting of the acting rank of Captain to Lieutenant B. T. W. Irwin, M.D., D.P.H., for "Officer Commanding, 4th Field Ambulance" substitute "Officer Commanding, 4th Field Hygiene Section, New Zealand Medical Corps."

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 12th March, 1940.

IT is hereby notified that the undermentioned persons have been appointed to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :-

Name District.
Alexander Mather Dykes . . . . Dunedin.
Charles Frederick Lundy . . . . Wanganui.

G. G. HODGKINS, Deputy Registrar-General.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 13th March, 1940.

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

Alexander Mather Dykes,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Dunedin, as from the 4th day of March, 1940.

Charles Frederick Lundy,

to be Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths of Maoris at Wanganui, as from the 4th day of March, 1940.

S. T. BARNETT,
For Secretary.