Promotions

Flight Lieutenant (temp.) Francis Roy McBride to be Acting
Squadron Leader (paid). Dated 8th June, 1945.
Flying Officer John Herbert Kemnitz to be Flight Lieutenant
(temp.). Dated 2nd July, 1944.
The undermentioned Flying Officers (temp.) to be Acting
Flight Lieutenants (paid):
Dated 11th June, 1945—
Sydney Faber Fookes. Kenneth Howard Bayliss.
Dated 18th June, 1945 : Stanley David Edmondson Weir.

Transfer

Flying Officer John Douglas Guy is transferred from the
General Duties Branch to the Administrative and Special Duties
Branch in his present rank and seniority. Dated 1st April, 1945.

Relinquishment

Flying Officer Lawrence Arthur Staig is permitted to
relinquish his temporary commission. Dated 17th July, 1945.

Amendment

The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 43, dated
21st June, 1945, page 817, under the heading “Administrative
and Special Duties Branch—Transfer,” relating to “Flying Officer
Philip Wallis Vautier,” is amended to read “Flying Officer
(Acting Flight Lieutenant).”

Cancellation

The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 30,
dated 3rd May, 1945, page 455, under the heading “Administrative
and Special Duties Branch—Promotions,” relating to “Flying
Officer Malcolm Douglas Beresford Graham,” is cancelled.

WORKS SECTION

Appointments

The undermentioned are granted temporary commissions in
the rank of Pilot Officer:
Dated 17th June, 1945—
NZ 428895 Sergeant Neil John Miller.
NZ 425892 Acting Sergeant Alan James Flanagan.
NZ 43966 Warrant Officer Thomas Henry Henshall.
NZ 4212609 Flight Sergeant William Louis Purcell
Tapper.
NZ 40808 Acting Flight Sergeant Lewis Godfrey
Larsen.
NZ 434175 Flight Sergeant John Richard Moore.
NZ 4210362 Flight Sergeant Henry Sargison.

Promotions

Flying Officer (Acting Flight Lieutenant) Tom Learmont to
be Acting Squadron Leader (paid). Dated 1st June, 1945.
The undermentioned Flying Officers (temp.) to be Acting
Flight Lieutenants (paid):
Dated 18th June, 1945—
Frederick Almond Sisson. Harold Bateman Godfrey.

MEDICAL BRANCH

Promotion

Flight Lieutenant John Arthur Keeling, M.B., Ch.B., to be
Squadron Leader (temp.). Dated 7th July, 1945.

RESERVE OF AIR FORCE OFFICERS

Transfers

The undermentioned officers are transferred from the Active
List to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class A, Section I:
Dated 14th July, 1945 : Wing Commander Ian Reid Salmond.
Dated 15th June, 1945 : Squadron Leader Cecil Leslie Monk-
Ton.
Dated 26th June, 1945 : Squadron Leader Derrick Fitzgerald
Westera, D.F.C.
Dated 13th June, 1945 : Flight Lieutenant Francis Kenneth
Woodward.
Dated 15th June, 1945—
Flight Lieutenant Graham Henry Fish.
Flight Lieutenant Peter Franklin Robertson.
Dated 21st June, 1945 : Flight Lieutenant Arthur Stapley
Cutfield.
Dated 23rd June, 1945 : Flight Lieutenant William Gray
Thorp.
Dated 25th June, 1945—
Flight Lieutenant Peter Macgregor Walker, D.F.C.
Flight Lieutenant John Ernest Rountree, D.F.C.
Flight Lieutenant Peter Mercer.
Flight Lieutenant Ian Connon McColl.
Dated 26th June, 1945—
Flight Lieutenant Frederick James Malcolm Palmer.
Flight Lieutenant James Edward Mortimer, D.F.C.
Flight Lieutenant Gordon Roger Hewlett, D.F.C.
Dated 27th June, 1945 : Flight Lieutenant Ronald Arnott
Kear.
Dated 29th June, 1945—
Flight Lieutenant Ian Roderick McKenzie (NZ 414997).
Flight Lieutenant Jack Selwynne Burke.

Dated 5th July, 1945 : Flight Lieutenant James Stewart
Frame, D.F.C.
Dated 7th July, 1945—
Flight Lieutenant Walter Desmond Reevely, D.F.C.
Flight Lieutenant Sydney Lawrence Emil Weggery.
Dated 5th June, 1945 : Flying Officer Gordon Maurice George
Kirk.
Dated 15th June, 1945—
Flying Officer Edward Desmond O'Reilly, D.F.M.
Flying Officer James Bayly.
Dated 24th June, 1945 : Flying Officer Thomas Richard
Palmer, D.F.C.
Dated 25th June, 1945—
Flying Officer Homer Cecil Hurt, D.F.C.
Flying Officer Wilfred Everleigh Wildey.
Flying Officer Ernest Charles Ingram.
Dated 26th June, 1945—
Flying Officer Carrick Noel O'Kane.
Flying Officer Jabez Alexander McDowell.
Dated 27th June, 1945—
Flying Officer Andrew Stanley Miller, D.F.M.
Flying Officer Kenneth Henry Sutherland.
Flying Officer George Wirepa.
Dated 28th June, 1945 : Flying Officer Reuben John Smith.
Dated 30th June, 1945 : Flying Officer George Herbert
Sanders.
Dated 1st July, 1945 : Flying Officer Harold Binnie Cassie.
Dated 5th July, 1945 : Flying Officer Sidney Nicholas
Etridge, D.F.C.
Dated 10th July, 1945 : Flying Officer David John Stanley
Walker-Redmond.
Dated 26th July, 1945 : Flying Officer Edward George Paterson.

The undermentioned officers are transferred from the Active
List to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class B, Section I:
Dated 27th June, 1945—
Squadron Leader Edward Coupe Gorton.
Flight Lieutenant Haydn Louis Hope.
Dated 1st July, 1945 : Flight Lieutenant Richmond Kenneth
Bird.
Dated 4th July, 1945—
Flight Lieutenant Francis Harloe Thompson.
Flight Lieutenant Milton Albert Greenslade.
Dated 5th July, 1945 : Flight Lieutenant Harold Edward
Peart Wilson.
Dated 28th July, 1945 : Flight Lieutenant Arthur Gethin
Creagh, D.F.C.
Dated 2nd August, 1945 : Flight Lieutenant Graeme Athol
Price.
Dated 15th June, 1945 : Flying Officer Esdaile George Brown.
Dated 18th June, 1945—
Flying Officer John Gascoyne Murray Gibbes.
Flying Officer Kenneth Potter.
Dated 20th June, 1945 : Flying Officer Henry Forrest Marsh.
Dated 25th June, 1945 : Flying Officer Ian Greville Watt.
Dated 26th June, 1945 : Flying Officer Owen Spalding.
Dated 28th June, 1945 : Flying Officer James Dobson Campbell.
Dated 29th June, 1945 : Flying Officer Gordon Robert Lyall.
Dated 4th July, 1945 : Flying Officer Clive Allister Morton.
Dated 10th July, 1945—
Flying Officer Drummond Muir Hall.
Flying Officer Joseph William Murphy.

Amendment

The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 37, dated
31st May, 1945, page 613, under the heading “Reserve of Air
Force Officers—Transfers,” is amended, so far as it relates to
“Flying Officer Thomas Alexander, A.F.C.,” to read “Dated
11th June, 1945.”

Corrigendum

In the notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 8,
dated 17th February, 1944, page 135, under the heading “Chaplains Branch—Appointments,” for “NZ 2021 The Reverend
Ronald Charles Hart” read “NZ 2021 The Reverend Roland
Charles Hart.”

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Honours and Awards conferred by His Majesty the King

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 27th June, 1945.

His Excellency the Governor-General directs the publication
in the New Zealand Gazette of the honours and awards
conferred by His Majesty the King on the occasion of the observance
of His Majesty’s Birthday in the United Kingdom:

MILITARY DIVISION

Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.)
Temporary Brigadier Albert Edward Conway, O.B.E., A.D.C.,
New Zealand Staff Corps, of Wellington.

Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.)
Acting Air Commodore Ronald Burns Bannerman, D.F.C. and
Bar, A.D.C., Royal New Zealand Air Force, of Wellington.