APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 947

N.Z. INFANTRY.

The Auckland Regiment (Countess of Ranfurly’s Own).

Lieutenant (temp.) M. T. Wilson to be Captain (temp.). Dated 10th January, 1942.

The undermentioned 2nd Lieutenants (temp.) to be Lieutenants (temp.). Dated 1st March, 1942:—
D. A. Holmes.
A. R. McLachlan.
J. G. Pring.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (temp.):—
Dated 23rd February, 1942—
John Tinkler.
Horace Allan Sommerville.
Neil Dudley Randall.
Thomas Rowe Walding.
Terrance Esmond Fitzgerald.
John Rex Thorne.
James Brockliss Church.
Brevat William Dynes.
William Robert Paterson.
Colin Robert Carnachan.
Patrick O’Dowd.
James Farmer Orr.
Frank Clendon Gould.
John Robert McCorquindale.
Ernest Carl Bott.
Robert Elliot Arthur Laery.
Ross David Yetton.
David Harvey Steen.
Charles Elias Anderson.
Wilfred Guild Lowrie.
Norman Euan Russell Donald.
Hugh Mainwaring Noakes.
Gilbert Harmer King.

Dated 3rd March, 1942—
    Roy McConnochie.

Dated 17th March, 1942—
    Charles Ernest Hubbard.

The Hauraki Regiment.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (temp.). Dated 23rd February, 1942 :—
Keith Dunwoodie Page.
George Sydney McLaren.

The Waikato Regiment.

2nd Lieutenant (temp. Lieutenant) N. G. Sutherland to be Captain (temp.). Dated 26th February, 1942.

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (temp.). Dated 23rd February, 1942 :—
Norman Lindsay Muller.
David Charles Darwin Cooke.

The Wellington Regiment (City of Wellington’s Own).

2nd Lieutenant (temp. Lieutenant) A. E. G. Sim to be Captain (temp.). Dated 19th January, 1942.

2nd Lieutenant E. S. Hobson to be Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 19th September, 1941.

The Wellington West Coast Regiment.

Lieutenant (temp.) H. K. Joblin to be Captain (temp.). Dated 2nd March, 1942.

Lieutenant (temp.) B. M. Silk to be Captain (temp.). Dated 3rd March, 1942.

The Hawke’s Bay Regiment.

With reference to the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 88, dated 6th November, 1941, relative to Captain G. Burns, for “with seniority from 8th September, 1941,” substitute “with seniority from 29th May, 1941.”

The Canterbury Regiment.

Captain (temp.) R. L. Anderson to be Major (temp.). Dated 20th February, 1942.

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) E. P. Wills to be Major (temp.). Dated 20th February, 1942.

The undermentioned Lieutenants (temp.) to be Captains (temp.). Dated 20th February, 1942 :—
J. S. Freeborn.
W. B. Cox.

The undermentioned to be Lieutenants (temp.). Dated 20th February, 1942 :—
2nd Lieutenant B. L. C. Partridge.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) P. H. T. Alpers.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) S. F. Shuttleworth.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) S. J. Geary.
2nd Lieutenant A. M. Vile.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) T. G. Emery.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) P. K. H. Smyth.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) D. S. Anderson.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) W. H. Prescott.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) D. R. Trolove.
2nd Lieutenant (temp.) F. S. J. Renner.

2nd Lieutenant (temp.) C. J. Bax to be Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 3rd February, 1942.

The Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment.

Captain J. W. D. McKnight to be Major (temp.). Dated 1st March, 1942.

Captain (temp.) H. G. Brodie to be Major (temp.). Dated 2nd March, 1942.

Captain (temp.) G. Mitchell, M.M., to be Major (temp.). Dated 3rd March, 1942.

Frederick Faulding to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 1st March, 1942.

The Otago Regiment.

Ernest Paul Charles Peare to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 1st February, 1942.

The New Zealand Scottish Regiment.

The undermentioned Lieutenants (temp.) to be Captains (temp.). Dated 1st January, 1942 :—
E. J. Bull.
J. E. Boult.
R. C. Bowman.
A. H. Thom.
E. Hood.

N.Z. MEDICAL CORPS.

Captain G. E. Waterworth, M.D., Ch.B., F.R.C.S. (Edin.), F.R.A.C.S., to be Major (temp.). Dated 15th December, 1941.

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) F. C. M. Shortt, M.B., Ch.B., to be Major (temp.). Dated 3rd March, 1942.

Lieutenant E. Philipp, M.D., Ch.B., to be Captain (temp.). Dated 1st January, 1942.

Allan North, M.B., Ch.B., to be Lieutenant. Dated 30th January, 1941.

The undermentioned to be Lieutenants. Dated 6th March, 1942 :—
Louis Percy Simmons, M.B., Ch.B.
Jack Dilworth Matthews, M.B., Ch.B.
Harold Charles Tuck, M.B., Ch.B.

Ivan Olliver Barr to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 6th March, 1942.

N.Z. CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

The Rev. William Gordon Parker to be Chaplain, 4th Class (Methodist). Dated 6th March, 1942.

The Rev. Hugh Kevin Halpin to be Chaplain, 4th Class (Roman Catholic). Dated 11th March, 1942.

CORPS OF N.Z. MILITARY POLICE.

Rex Bertram Winthrop to be 2nd Lieutenant (temp.). Dated 17th March, 1942.

N.Z. DENTAL CORPS.

Victor Lancaster Buckley to be Lieutenant. Dated 10th March, 1942.

Thomas Bernard Francis Judge to be Lieutenant. Dated 17th March, 1942.

John Frederick Murray to be Lieutenant. Dated 26th March, 1942.

OFFICERS CEASING TO BE SECONDED TO THE 2ND NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.

Captain W. Bourke, The Hawke’s Bay Regiment. Dated 31st January, 1942.

2nd Lieutenant (temp.) D’A. T. L. Fleming, dated 12th March, 1942, and is reposted to the N.Z. Temporary Staff with the rank of Lieutenant (temp.), dated 13th March, 1942.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointments and Relinquishments of Commissions of Officers of the Home Guard.

Army Department,
Wellington, 24th March, 1942.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve the following appointments and relinquishments of commissions of officers of the Home Guard :—

HOME GUARD.

The undermentioned to be Captains. Dated 1st August, 1941 :—
William Keith Cameron.
Oliver James Begg.
Frederick Leonard Coleman Scrivener.
Kenneth Charles Rampton.
Leslie McMillan.
Anthony Robert Andrews.
Henry Stewart Ingram.
Duncan Charles MacFarlane.
Charles Watson.
Philip Boylen.
David McCurdy.
Leslie Marshall Clark.
Cecil Petersen Beck.
Brian Wilfred Hewat.
George Gordon Denniston.
Jack Lawrence Cameron.
Stanley Allan Bell.
Joseph George Gasparich.
Charles Bargh.