ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED

COMMISSIONS GRANTED

LONDON. January 12.

Major A. Winter Evans has been promoted to command a battalion of the Now Zealand Rifle Brigade in place of Lieut.-Colonel Cowl*'?, who is. returning to New Zealand, and Major P. H. Bell succeeds Major Winter Evans. )

Captain J. L. Frazer Hurst, N.Z.M.C., of Whangarei, is returning to New Zealand.

Major E. A. Belcher, formerly headmaster of Christ's College, ha» been appointed by the Army Canteen Committee to 'organise in the coming season the increased production of local products necessary for the army at home. Major Belcher, on returning to England via America, received a commission in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, and was second in. command of a service battalion until it was absorbed. He then transferred to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Sub -Lieutenants Norman E. Bloom6eld, Thos. H. Piper, Thomas M. Alexander, Anthony C. Fell, Cedric V. Ford, ham. James A. Hardie, Witt F. Taylor, William I. Turnbull are all New Zealandei's who have been given commissions in the R.N. V.R., and have recently arrived from the Dominion to take up duty in the R.N. Auxiliary*Patrol Motorboat Service.

Lieut. D. C. O'Roike, King's Royal Rifles, son of Mr E. D. O'Rorke, of Auckland, has been promoted captain while commanding a company, the appoirtment dating from November last. Lieut. D. A. Finlayson has been transferred from the Auckland Mounted Rifles to the Auckland Infantry. Lieut. T. E. Y. Seddon, who injured liis knee in France some time ago, and has been on leave in England, has been seconded from his regiment (Canterbury) for duty as company commander at the command depot at Oodford. The following promotions from the ranks to commissions in . the N.Z.E.F. are announced in the last divisional ordei's: Private A. O. T. Chamberlin, N.Z.M.G.0.; Sergt J. W. Fraser, Canterbury Regiment; Corporal G. P. Hanna, Otago Regiment; Private H. F. Hall. Auckland Regiment; Corporal S. M. Lang, Wellington Regiment; Corporal S. Oliver, Wellington Regiment;-Lance-Corporal G. R. Bobbie, Wellington'Regiment ; Bombardier H. E. Standring, Otago Regiment; Corporal C. F. Wilkie, Otago Regiment; Corporal E. C. D. Withell, Canterbury Regiment; C.S.M. G. A. L. McLean, Wellington Regiment. They have all completed their training in officer cadet units. Mr A. J. Stewart-Richardson, of Cambridge, who joined the No. 2 Cavalry Cadet Unit at Kildare at the beginning of September, is now a second lieutenant in the Cavalry Reserve Regiment. Nurse Ella Cooke, of Auckland, saw her first military nursing with the French Flag, with whom she was for six months. She then joined Queen Alexandra's^ Imperial Nursing Service, and was a* few months at Aldershot before being sent to Egypt, where she is now on the staff of the 17th General Hospital. Nurses Martin and l*arker, of Auckland, are ■on duty in Mesopotamia. Sister C. Young, of Auckland, has returned to London from Egypt, and is to be attached to the staff of the New Zealand General Hospital at Homchurch. — Auckland Herald correspondent.