MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 57, 7 March 1913, Page 11

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

(My Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. The following military announcements are gazetted to-day:—3rd (Auckland), Regiment ("Countess of Ranfurly's Own) : Lieutenant Francis William Strong (coast defence detachment) to be captain; Second Lieutenant John Murdoch Mclvenzie to be lieutenant to complete establishment; Second Lieutenant Colin Fraser resigns his commission; Supernumerary Second Lieutenant George Harry Woolley is absorbed into the establishment. 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles, Captain John Potter to be major. The undermentioned lieutenants to be captains: Albert Edward Wilkinson, vice Jolly, promoted; Maxwell Aldred, vice Potter, promoted. The undermentioned second lieutenants to be lieutenants: Walter Ernest Carter, vice Wilkinson, promoted; Bertram Lush, vice Aldred, promoted. The undermentioned supernumerary second lieutenants are absorbed into the establishment: John Leslie Carter, vice Ellingham, promoted; Osmond Henry, vice Carter, promoted; Douglas Swanston Kidd, vice Lush, promoted; Harry Cuthbert Northcroft to complete establishment. Lieutenant Hugh McColl Holden is transferred to the reserve of officers. 11th (North Auckland) Mounted Rifles: Lieutenant Alexander Wallace to be captain to complete establishment. 15th (North .Auckland) Regiment: Captain Robert Horatio Roy Bayly to be major. 16th (Waikato) Regiment: Lieutenant John Wyndham, -Hopkins resigns his commission.