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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

N.Z. ARMY SERVICE CORPS.
2nd Lieutenant (temp. Captain) J. H. Phillips, commanding 2nd Composite Company, relinquishes the temporary rank of Captain, and is granted the temporary rank of Major. Dated 20th March, 1941.
Captain and Quartermaster (temp.) J. T. Thomson, from the Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles, to be Captain and Quartermaster (temp.), with seniority from 1st March, 1941, and is posted to the 2nd Composite Company. Dated 8th April, 1941.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.
Eric Howard Manley Luke, M.B., Ch.B., to be Lieutenant, Central Military District (unattached). Dated 14th March, 1941.
Lieutenant A. E. Park, M.B., Ch.B., from the Reserve of Officers, to be Lieutenant, Central Military District (unattached). Dated 1st April, 1941.

RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
N.Z. Medical Corps.
Captain A. T. McCaw, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), is posted to the Retired List. Dated 15th April, 1941.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

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

Air Department,
Wellington, 21st April, 1941.

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

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH.
Promotions.
Flying Officer Eric Neville Griffiths (Temporary Commission), to be Flight Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 1st January, 1941.
The undermentioned Acting Flying Officers are confirmed in the rank of Flying Officer. Dated 1st July, 1940:—
Robert Maxwell McKay.
George Robert Brabyn.
John Henry Arkwright.

Transfer.
Pilot Officer Harvey Colin O’Loughlin is transferred from the Administrative and Special Duties Branch to the General Duties Branch in his present rank and seniority. Dated 8th April, 1941.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION I.
Promotion and Transfer.
Flying Officer Harold Willis de Castro (Temporary Commission), to be Acting Flight Lieutenant, and is transferred from the Administrative and Special Duties Branch to the Equipment Branch, Section I. Dated 8th April, 1941.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH.
Appointments.
Gordon Francis Anderson is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 15th April, 1941.
Herbert Rogers-Jenkins is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 18th April, 1941.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointments, Promotions, and Relinquishment of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Air Department,
Wellington, 23rd April, 1941.

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

GENERAL DUTIES BRANCH.
Promotions.
Flying Officer Wilfred Maurice Chalk Williams, D.F.C., to be Acting Flight Lieutenant. Dated 3rd April, 1941.
Flying Officer Frank Edwards (T.A.F.), to be Acting Flight Lieutenant. Dated 1st April, 1941.
Flying Officer William Angus Cameron (Temporary Commission), to be Acting Flight Lieutenant. Dated 21st April, 1941.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION I.
Relinquishment.
Flying Officer William Robert Esquilant (Temporary Commission), relinquishes his commission. Dated 14th April, 1941.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II.
Appointment.
Edmund Dolbel Edmundson, B.E., is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Flying Officer. Dated 5th May, 1941.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH.
Appointments.
William Henry Shepherd is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Flight Lieutenant (Honorary Squadron Leader). Dated 7th April, 1941.
Henry Worrall is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 28th April, 1941.

Cancellation.
The entry on page 2636 of the New Zealand Gazette No. 103 of 10th October, 1940, relating to the granting of a temporary commission in the Reserve of Officers, Section I, Class A, to Flight Lieutenant Christopher Griffiths, R.A.F.O., is hereby cancelled.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

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

Air Department,
Wellington, 24th April, 1941.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments and promotion of officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force:—

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION I.
Appointment.
Frederick Charles Macdonald is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Pilot Officer (on prob.). Dated 1st May, 1941.

Promotion.
Flying Officer Montague Frederick Foate (Temporary Commission), to be Flight Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 1st January, 1941.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH.
Appointments.
Flying Officer Neville Forsyth Harston (Retired List), is re-employed in the temporary rank of Flying Officer. Dated 1st May, 1941.
Edward Arthur Robinson is granted a temporary commission in the Reserve of Officers, Section II, Class B, in the rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 1st April, 1941.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Member of Hawke’s Bay Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 29th April, 1941.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, pursuant to section 49 of the Land Act, 1924, been pleased to reappoint

Oswald Hugh Orr

to be a member of the Land Board of the Land District of Hawke’s Bay for a further term of two years from the 27th day of April, 1941.

THOS. POUND, Assistant Under-Secretary.
(L. and S. 22/748/2.)

Deputy Registrar of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 18th April, 1941.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by the Marriage Act, 1908, and the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1924, I, Gilbert Graham Hodgkins, Deputy Registrar-General, do hereby appoint

Douglas William McAlister

to be the Deputy of the Registrar of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the District of Balfour.

G. G. HODGKINS,
Deputy Registrar-General.