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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
[No. 2
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 23rd May, 1946 : NZ 4212905 Flight Lieutenant Allan
Archibald WATSON, D.F.C.
Dated 17th December, 1946 : NZ 404855 Flight Lieutenant
Peter DURNING.
Dated 19th January, 1947 : NZ 2480 Squadron Leader William
George Charles GASQUOINE.
Dated 20th January, 1947 : NZ 4217079 Flight Lieutenant
William Keith AMIES.
Dated 23rd January, 1947 : NZ 4213877 Flight Lieutenant
Robert William Gilbert ALEXANDER.
Dated 27th January, 1947 : NZ 425850 Flying Officer Derek
MASON.
Dated 5th February, 1947 : NZ 413873 Flight Lieutenant
Lester Harold MATTSON.
Dated 16th February, 1947 : NZ 424489 Flying Officer Patrick
Joseph McCARTHY.
The undermentioned officers are transferred from the Active
List to the Reserve of Air Force Officers, Class B, Section I:-
Dated 16th December, 1946 : NZ 1996 Wing Commander
Hayden Hugh James MILLER, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C.
Dated 21st December, 1946 : NZ 2393 Flight Lieutenant
Reginald Tice MARTIN, M.B. Ch.B.
Dated 4th January, 1947 : NZ 1505 Flight Lieutenant James
Herbert CROXTON.
Dated 7th January, 1947-
NZ 1639 Flight Lieutenant Joseph FINKELSTEIN.
NZ 42205 Flying Officer David Arthur BERESFORD.
Dated 25th January, 1947 : NZ 405361 Squadron Leader
James William Aston, M.B.E.
Relinquishment
NZ 1197 Flight Lieutenant John Harold GRAY is permitted to
relinquish his commission. Dated 9th October, 1946.
Amendments
The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 1, dated
10th January, 1946, page 18, under the heading "Reserve of Air
Force Officers-Transfers," relating to "Flight Lieutenant Leslie
Thomas Elding Young," is amended to read "Dated 28th November,
1945."
The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 66, dated
26th September, 1946, page 1296, under the heading "Reserve of
Air Force Officers-Transfers," relating to "Flying Officer William
Robert MORRIS, D.F.C.," is amended to read "Dated 14th November,
1946."
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.
Honours and Awards approved by His Majesty the King
Air Department,
Wellington, 8th January, 1947.
H IS Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve
the following award to a member of the Royal New Zealand
Air Force in recognition of meritorious and gallant services rendered
during the war :-
Distinguished Flying Cross
(With effect from 19th February, 1942)
Pilot Officer Noel Callan Sharp.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.
Honours and Awards approved by His Majesty the King
Air Department,
Wellington, 9th January, 1947.
H IS Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to approve
the following awards to members of the Royal New Zealand
Air Force in recognition of meritorious and gallant services rendered
during the war :-
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
NZ 41627 Warrant Officer Charles Croall.
Mention in Despatches
NZ 403988 Warrant Officer James Robertson Ritchie.
NZ 45454 Warrant Officer John Graham Lawrence.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.
Formation of New Unit and Corps, Constitution of Generals' List
and Colonels' List, Amalgamation, Redesignation, and Dis-
banding of Corps, New Zealand Military Forces
Army Department,
Wellington, 13th January, 1947.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
approve, under section 6 (a), Defence Act, 1909, of the
formation of a new corps of the New Zealand Military Forces, a new
unit of that corps, the constitution of a Generals' List and a Colonels'
List, and the amalgamation, redesignation, and disbanding of corps
of the New Zealand Military Forces, as set out hereunder. Dated
9th January, 1947:--
(a) The following new corps is formed :-
The New Zealand Infantry Corps.
(b) The following new regiment is formed as part of the New
Zealand Infantry Corps:--
The New Zealand Regiment.
(c) The following lists are constituted as part of the New
Zealand Military Forces :-
(1) A Generals' List.
(2) A Colonels' List.
(d) The following corps of the New Zealand Military Forces are
amalgamated and redesignated as shown hereunder:--
Existing Corps. New Designation.
R.N.Z.A. and N.Z.A. ... R.N.Z.A.
N.Z.P.A.S.C. and N.Z.A.S.C. ... N.Z.A.S.C.
N.Z.A.O.C. and N.Z.O.C. ... N.Z.A.O.C.
N.Z.A.M.C. and N.Z.M.C. ... N.Z.A.M.C.
(e) The existing designation of the New Zealand Dental Corps
is abolished and this unit of the New Zealand Military Forces is
redesignated as follows :--
N.Z. Army Dental Corps.
(f) The following corps of the New Zealand Military Forces
are disbanded :--
N.Z. Staff Corps.
N.Z. Permanent Staff.
N.Z. Permanent Army Service Corps.
The General Duty Section of the N.Z. Permanent Forces.
N.Z. Artillery.
N.Z. Medical Corps.
N.Z. Veterinary Corps.
N.Z. Ordnance Corps
(g) All corps of the New Zealand Military Forces now sub-
sisting as set out in paragraph 1 of the Regulations for the N.Z.
Military Forces, as amended by Amendment No. 56, whether
expressed to be formed as corps of the Permanent Forces, the
Territorial Force, or of the New Zealand Military Forces, and
whether formed under section 6 (a) of the Defence Act, 1909, or
under any other powers thereunto enabling, shall be deemed to have
been and are hereby constituted as corps of the New Zealand
Military Forces under the said section anything otherwise expressed
in any other enactment, regulation, or decree to the contrary not-
withstanding.
(h) All references in the Regulations for the New Zealand
Military Forces 1927, or in any other regulations (hereinafter called
the said regulations) to any of the above corps which are hereby
amalgamated or redesignated shall hereafter be deemed to be
references to the appropriate new corps as hereby redesignated,
and all references in the said regulations to any of the above corps
which are hereby disbanded shall be deleted therefrom, and the
regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces 1927 are amended
accordingly.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.
Officers of the Police Force appointed
Police Department,
Wellington, 3rd January, 1947.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
appoint-
Inspector John Fox and
Inspector John Andrew Dempsey
to be Superintendents in the New Zealand Police Force, the appoint-
ment in each case to take effect on and from Ist December, 1946.
P. FRASER,
Minister in Charge of Police Department.
Appointment of Directors of the State Advances Corporation of
New Zealand
Office of the Minister of Finance,
Wellington, 6th January, 1947.
IT is notified that, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and
authorities conferred by section 9 of the State Advances
Corporation Act, 1936, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, has
appointed-
David Barnes, Esquire, and
R. G. Macmorran, Esquire,
to be Directors of the State Advances Corporation of New
Zealand, to hold office during pleasure, such appointment to take
effect on and from the 1st day of January, 1947.
W. NASH, Minister of Finance.
Justice of the Peace resigns
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 14th January, 1947.
H IS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to
accept the resignation by
Percy Horace Thompson, Esquire,
of Papanui, Christchurch, of his appointment as a Justice of the
Peace for the Dominion of New Zealand and its dependencies.
H. G. R. MASON, Minister of Justice.