PROMOTION DECLINED.
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WELLINGTON, May 23.
lieutenant-Colonel Butts, who, on being retired from the command of the Wellington district, was gazetted to a full Colonelcy on the honorary unattached list New Zealand Volunteers, has addressed the following letter to the Minister of Defence:—
. Wellington, 22nd May, 189 L Sir, —With! reference to the recent " Gazette" notice, making mc Colonel on the honorary unattached list, I beg to inform you that I have no desire for such promotion, and according to No. 236 of the Volunteer Regulations, 1888, I do not think I should be placed upon that list against my wishes: I also maintain that paragraphs 234 to 238 of the regulations refer to Volunteers only, and not to officers on the Militia list. X lia.-ve -fclierezofe tixe honor, to reqneet that no" -ffffy .as my 'same " 1 ■•■ \ t -*fy-t*+ "** Gstzetete " ~x*o>£loe xmro , be cancelled. I have, eg. > . J- BL" Bt'ATli* T Lietstenant-Colonel N.Z. Milttim.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7872, 25 May 1891, Page 6
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