SEPT. 9] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 1101

Pilot Officer Clive Gaby Ibbotson to be Flying Officer (temp.). Dated 24th July, 1942.

The notice relating to the above officer, and appearing in New Zealand Gazette No. 112, dated 17th December, 1942, page 2904, under the heading “General Duties Branch, Promotions,” is cancelled.

Pilot Officer Robert Dant to be Flying Officer (temp.). Dated 29th October, 1942.

The notice relating to the above officer, and appearing in New Zealand Gazette No. 112, dated 17th December, 1942, page 2904, under the heading “General Duties Branch, Promotions,” is cancelled.

Relinquishment

Flight Lieutenant Nathan George Leonard Scott is permitted to relinquish his commission. Dated 26th September, 1943.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION I

Appointments

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer :—

Dated 7th July, 1943—

NZ 39110 Henry Francis Gribble.
NZ 39111 James Keir Simpson.
NZ 39112 Eric Gordon McGee.
NZ 39113 Donald Allen Hogan.
NZ 39114 Thomas Edmund Douds.
NZ 39115 Henry Davies.
NZ 39116 Francis William Craig.
NZ 39117 Franklin Robert Stanley Halls.
NZ 39118 Norman Royle Shorter.
NZ 39119 Leon Abraham Manning.
NZ 39120 Henry Francis Claridge.
NZ 39121 William Alder Charlton.

Dated 20th July, 1943—

NZ 36169 Warrant Officer Gordon Henry Grantham.
NZ 4214356 A.C. 2 James Spencer Allen.

Dated 30th July, 1943—

NZ 405553 Sergeant William McMillan Smellie.
NZ 401697 Sergeant Robert Bruce Johnston.

Promotion

Pilot Officer Douglas George Lawson to be Flying Officer (temp.). Dated 16th July, 1943.

EQUIPMENT BRANCH, SECTION II

Appointments

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the rank of Flying Officer. Dated 20th July, 1943 :—

As Armament Officer—

NZ 39445 Warrant Officer Frank Hion.

As Engineer Officer—

NZ 40261 Warrant Officer Albert John Dingle.

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer. Dated 20th July, 1943 :—

As Engineer Officers—

NZ 391318 Flight Sergeant George Alexander Folster.
NZ 36124 Warrant Officer Ralph Crowther Jones.
NZ 37167 Flight Sergeant Frederick Lancelot Pearson.
NZ 391251 Flight Sergeant George Trevor Hely.
NZ 403227 Sergeant James Alexander Robb.
NZ 40323 Flight Sergeant Percy Charles Campbell.
NZ 34185 Flight Sergeant Gonville Course Benesman.
NZ 391265 Flight Sergeant George Maxwell Roberts.
NZ 39726 Flight Sergeant Charles Broadbent Barraclough.

NZ 630095 Flight Sergeant Roy Samuel Calvert Burgess.
NZ 436998 Flight Sergeant Nolan John Cram Redstone.

As Signal Officers—

NZ 401937 Sergeant Ian Robert Wallace.
NZ 391707 Sergeant Owen Leslie King.

As Armament Officers—

NZ 391323 Sergeant Harold Duval Smith.
NZ 539012 Flight Sergeant William Hubert Howe.
NZ 539081 Sergeant Charles John Malzard.

Promotions

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—

Dated 1st July, 1943 : Gordon Glassford Leask.
Dated 23rd July, 1943 : Eric Howard Patterson.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SPECIAL DUTIES BRANCH

Appointments

NZ 1925 Alexander Hanna is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Flying Officer. Dated 1st August, 1943.

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in the rank of Pilot Officer :—

Dated 8th May, 1943—

NZ 402627 Warrant Officer Leonard Victor William Dickson.

Dated 7th July, 1943 : NZ 1922 John Cowan.

Dated 20th July, 1943—

NZ 426874 Sergeant Kenneth Bolton.
NZ 40126 Sergeant Robert Lorenzo Hardie.
NZ 431526 A.C. 2 Stanley David Edmondson Weir, LL.M.
NZ 40119 Sergeant Stanley Joseph Brown.
NZ 402364 Sergeant Patrick Joseph O’Dea.
NZ 38174 Flight Sergeant Henry Hirst Hickey.
NZ 429556 A.C. 2 Alexander Thorsten Relling.
NZ 42978 A.C. 1 Kenneth Edward Haswell.
NZ 426378 Corporal Henry Mackay Brown.
NZ 426963 Sergeant Leo Geoffrey Morrow.
NZ 401551 Corporal Cyril Charles Heslop.
NZ 414223 Acting-Sergeant Finlay Robert Foote, LL.B.
NZ 391565 Sergeant Vincent Thomas Buck.
NZ 403056 Sergeant Boris Richard Brachman.
NZ 4217047 Corporal Arthur Walter McGill.
NZ 422892 Sergeant Ralph McFarlane Watt, M.A.
NZ 424739 Sergeant Henry Ernest Bainbridge.
NZ 4216126 Corporal Gerald Carolan Grace.
NZ 403903 Sergeant Hector Heathcote McKay.

As Works Officers—

NZ 414094 Sergeant Terras Wroxtan Walls, B.E.
NZ 4211302 Sergeant James William Palmer.
NZ 421660 Corporal Geoffrey Brandon Harry.
NZ 429423 Sergeant Frank Albion Harvey.

As Education Officer—

NZ 1923 Harry Jones Priestley, B.A.

Dated 30th July, 1943—

NZ 1924 John Benjamin Thurston, M.A., B.Com.

Promotions

Pilot Officer (on prob.) Roy Lewis Fisher is confirmed in his rank and granted the temporary rank of Flying Officer. Dated 14th July, 1943.

The undermentioned Pilot Officers to be Flying Officers (temp.) :—

Dated 2nd June, 1943 : William MacGregor-Turnbull, D.S.O.

Dated 22nd July, 1943—

Louis Brassell Harder.
John Cyril Pawley.
Valentine Goodricke Kynaston Barnes.
Owen Walter Baxly.
Harold Edward Haines.
Philip Leslie Courtenay Hinge.

WORKS SECTION

Dated 1st July, 1943—

John Neill Koford. Ernest Richard Boddy.

Transfer

Flying Officer Royal David Petersen is transferred to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class B, Section I. Dated 16th August, 1943.

MEDICAL BRANCH

Transfer

Flight Lieutenant Frederick Alexander Sutorum is transferred to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class B, Section I. Dated 13th September, 1943.

NEW ZEALAND WOMEN’S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE

Transfers

The undermentioned Assistant Section Officers are transferred to the Reserve :—

Dated 21st July, 1943—

Emily Rosanne Newton. Hilda Kathleen Hurley.

Dated 14th August, 1943 : Charlotte Emily Boddington.

Assistant Section Officer Hilda Kathleen Hurley is transferred to the Active List. Dated 17th August, 1943.

CORRIGENDA

In the notice appearing in New Zealand Gazette No. 112, dated 17th December, 1942, page 2904, under the heading “General Duties Branch, Appointments, As Pilots,” for “Rae Jessep Taaffe” read: “Rae Jessep Taaffe.”

In the notice appearing in New Zealand Gazette No. 46, dated 17th June, 1943, page 684, under the heading “General Duties Branch, Promotions,” for “Rae Jessep Taaffe, D.F.M.,” read “Rae Jessep Taaffe, D.F.M.”

F. Jones, Minister of Defence.