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Appointments, Promotions, Transfers, and Retirements of Officers of
the New Zealand Military Forces

Army Department
Wellington, 21st September, 1948.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to approve of the following appointments, promotions, transfers, and retirements of officers of the New Zealand Military Forces:

REGULAR FORCE

The Royal N.Z. Corps of Signals

Captain John Frederick William Tonge, M.B.E., from the Reserve of Officers, Supplementary List, to be temp. Captain (on prob.), and is appointed Instructor, Signal Wing, Army School of Instruction, Trentham. Dated 13th September, 1948.

The Royal N.Z. Army Ordnance Corps

Lieutenant and Quartermaster S. H. E. Bryant to be Captain and Quartermaster. Dated 1st July, 1948.

The Royal N.Z. Chaplains Department

The Rev. Ronald Keith Dobson, Chaplain, 4th Class (temp. Chaplain, 3rd Class) (Church of England), from the Reserve of Officers, Supplementary List, is granted a short-service commission for a period of five years as from 3rd September, 1948, in the rank of Chaplain, 4th Class, with seniority from 29th September, 1939. Dated 3rd September, 1948.

Supernumerary List, N.Z. Regular Force

Major and Quartermaster J. P. O'Connor is posted to the Retired List. Dated 11th September, 1948.
Captain and Quartermaster H. D. Hunt is posted to the Retired List. Dated 11th September, 1948.
Captain and Quartermaster L. R. Stichbury is transferred to the Reserve of Officers, Class I (b). Dated 12th September, 1948.

Appointments to Commissions

The undermentioned to be Lieutenants and Quartermasters with seniority from 1st September, 1948, and are posted to the Corps as stated against their names:
Staff Sergeant Terence Curtis Hynes, New Zealand Regiment.
Sergeant John Joseph Hanvey, Royal New Zealand Artillery.
Staff Sergeant Nigel Marshall Laing, New Zealand Regiment.
W.O. II Durham Dowell Hunter, New Zealand Regiment.
Dated 1st September, 1948.

TERRITORIAL FORCE

Director of Railways

Honorary Colonel J. Sawers relinquishes the appointment of Director of Railways and the honorary rank of Colonel. Dated 16th July, 1948.
Major F. W. Aickin, O.B.E., from the Reserve of Officers, Supplementary List, is appointed Director of Railways and is granted the honorary rank of Colonel. Dated 17th July, 1948.

The Royal N.Z. Infantry Corps

The Hawke’s Bay Regiment

The undermentioned to be 2nd Lieutenants (on prob.), and are seconded to the Cadet Units (Area 7) as stated against their names:
Bernard Grinrod, Napier High School Cadets.
William Thomas Carpenter, Napier High School Cadets.
Alan Freesbury Gardiner, Gisborne High School Cadets.
Walter George McIntosh, Gisborne High School Cadets.
Dated 31st March, 1948.
Bruce Dillon Mercer, Dannevirke High School Cadets. Dated 1st April, 1948.
Montgomery Bernard Munn, Wairarapa College Cadets. Dated 2nd April, 1948.
Robert William Edgar Taylor, Gisborne High School Cadets. Dated 21st June, 1948.

The Royal N.Z. Army Dental Corps

Lieutenant (temp. Captain) J. R. Eyles, B.D.S., is posted to the Retired List with the rank of Captain. Dated 10th September, 1948.

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

Major C. M. H. Gibson, and is reposted to the N.Z. Regular Force with the rank of Lieutenant, with seniority from 14th December, 1942. Dated 9th September, 1948.
Major R. H. Smith, and is reposted to the N.Z. Regular Force with the rank of Lieutenant, with seniority from 12th December, 1944. Dated 11th September, 1948.
Captain R. W. Ryan, and is reposted to the N.Z. Regular Force with the rank of Lieutenant and Quartermaster, with seniority from 9th August, 1946. Dated 16th August, 1948.
Captain J. R. Eyles, B.D.S., The Royal N.Z. Army Dental Corps, and is reposted to the Territorial Force with the temporary rank of Captain, with seniority from 19th July, 1946. Dated 10th September, 1948.
Captain J. W. Beaumont, and is reposted to the N.Z. Regular Force with the rank of Captain and Quartermaster, with seniority from 1st May, 1948. Dated 10th September, 1948.
Captain J. S. Manning, and is reposted to the N.Z. Regular Force with the rank of Lieutenant, with seniority from 12th December, 1944. Dated 12th September, 1948.

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OFFICERS STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH OF THE 2ND NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
Lieutenant T. C. Hynes, and is reposted to the N.Z. Regular Force. Dated 31st August, 1948.
Lieutenant N. M. Laing, and is reposted to the N.Z. Regular Force with the rank of Lieutenant and Quartermaster, with seniority from 1st September, 1948. Dated 16th September, 1948.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointment and Retirements of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Department,
Wellington, 14th September, 1948.

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

TECHNICAL BRANCH

Appointment

Signals Division—

30124 Squadron Leader (temp.) Alston Leonard PARTELOW relinquishes his temporary commission and is granted a permanent commission in his present rank and seniority. Dated 1st June, 1947.
(The notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 20, dated 15th April, 1948, page 396, under the heading “Technical Branch—Appointments—Signals Division,” relating to the above officer, is hereby cancelled.)

RETIRED LIST

The undermentioned officers are placed on the Retired List:—
23103 Squadron Leader William Stanley SIMPSON, M.B.E. Dated 7th October, 1948.
23102 Squadron Leader Herbert Henry SMITH, O.B.E. Dated 1st October, 1948.

CORRIGENDUM

With reference to the notice appearing in the New Zealand Gazette No. 50, dated 16th September, 1948, page 1175, under the heading “Medical Branch—Appointments,” relative to “2530 Donald Galbraith MACNEILL, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H.,” for “in the temporary rank of,” read “in the rank of.”
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Appointment and Relinquishments of Officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force

Air Department,
Wellington, 14th September, 1948.

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

NEW ZEALAND WOMEN’S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE

Appointment

W. 6137 Thelma Mabel DICK is granted a temporary commission in the rank of Section Officer, with seniority as from 17th August, 1945. Dated 1st September, 1948.

AIR TRAINING CORPS

Relinquishments

The undermentioned officers relinquish their commissions:—
Flying Officer Horace Claude HARFORD.
Flying Officer Basil Hillyer HOWARD.
Flying Officer Edward HUTT.
Flying Officer Norman Leonard KNELL.
Dated 31st May, 1948.
F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph

General Post Office,
Wellington, 16th September, 1948.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928 (hereinafter termed the said Act), and by the regulations made on the 12th May, 1914, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 21st May, 1914, the following officers, at the addresses set against their names, are hereby appointed transmitting and receiving officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorized to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid:—
Hugh Brownlie, Postmaster, Fairlie.
Leonard Victor Pascoe, Senior Supervisor, Telegraph Branch, Palmerston North.
Thomas Frederick Rusbridge, Postmaster, Lawrence.
F. HACKETT, Minister of Telegraphs.