OCCUPATIONS OF DEFENCE OFFICERS.
An interesting return, showing the civilian occupations of the officers associated with the Defence Department, was submitted by the Hon. Sir James , Allen (Minister of Defence) in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. It was as follows :— Trentham Camp. Col. R. W. Cumming, Civil servant, Lands Department, returned officer; Major F. Waite, D.5.0., farmer, returned officer; Major J. Mounsey, auctioneer and land agent; Major D. W. Talbot, farmer, returned officer; Major D. B. M'Kenzie, manager Gore branch, Dalgety and Co., returned officer ; Captain J. W. Boon, builder and timber merchant; Lieut. G. Galloway, lawyer, returned officer, medically unfit, acted as bayonet fighting instructor at Etaples; Lieut. G. C. Fetton, Customhouse agent; Lieut. G. Bridge, Civil servant. Featherston Camp. Colonel N. P. Adams, C.M.G., barrister and solicitor; Major N. Newcomb, land and insurance agent, one of chief v|luers, Auckland City; Major D. J. Sweetzer, ex-Army (Imperial) officer; Captain A. Fairbairn, merchant (Fairbairn, Wright, and Co., Christchurch); Capt. G. M. Abbott, clerk, Bank of New Zealand; Major E; G. Fraser, accountant, returned officer; Major P. H. Johnston, station owner; Major A. R. Ryder, farmer, ex-Imperial officer; Capt. D. J. Smith, farmer; Lieut. C. Isbister, factory inspector, Imperial Board of Trade; Lieut. D. J. Smithi farmer; Lieut. F. G. M'lirtosh, draper; Lieut. N. Davies, mechanical engineer. Headquarters Staff. Col. R, W. Tate, Commanding Wellington Infantry Brigade, solicitor; Capt. A. J. Cross, schoolmaster; Major J. Osbourne-Lilly, solicitor; Capt. H. L. Spratt, solicitor; Capt. L. Miles, wool merchant; Lieut. D. Neave, bank clerk; Major Norton Francis, merchant; | Major J. H. Bartlett, farmer; Capt. M. H. Oram, solicitor; Capt. Vine, journalist; Lieut. Valentine, sheep farmer; Lieut. Milroy, Civil servant. Officers Commanding Districts. Col. G. W. Patterson (Auckland), merchant; Col. R. A. 1 Chaffey (Canterbury), sheep fanner; Colonel J. C. Nichols (Otago), sheep farmer.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 30, 4 August 1917, Page 3
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