THE DOMINION.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 429, 7 August 1915, Page 6

THE DOMINION.

EXPEDITIONARY FORCES PRO3IOTIOXS. fm rBMO AMOCIATIOX.I Wellington, Aug. C>. His Excellency the Governor has approved of the* following grants of

temporary rank, promotions and appointments of officers employed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Europe. Wellington Battalion.- Major Geo. Thompson Hall, New Zealand Army Service Corps. is granted the temporary rank of lieutenant-vol vnel while employed as officer commanding the base (dated May 20. 1915). '1 o be second lieutenants: Corporal Jas. Hawthorne Gray, 7th (WellingtonWest Coast) Company, vice Lieut. Lawrence William Albert Hugo, killed in action (dated May ■->. U»ls>. Private Allan Henry Preston. !*th (Hawke’s Bay) Company), vice Lieut. Edmund Robinson Wilson, killed in action (dated May 5, If* 15). Strut. Henry Masterton Clark. New Zealand Engineers, vice Lieutenant Sydney William Paine, killed in action (dated May 23, 1915).

THE REINFORCEMENTS THE SIXTH GO BACK To TRENTHAM. THE SEVENTH OX LEAVE. [m nna association. 1 Wellington, Aug. 7. The bulk of the Mounted 6th Reinf orcemeata returned to Trent ham to-dav frem Tauherenikau. The remainder trill go back to Trentham on Monday. All the Mounteds, with the balance of the Bth Reinforcements already in camp, will remain there until they leave for the front. The total number of officers and men now in Trentham is about 2600. The infantry of the 7th Reinforcements, who have been encamped at Waikanae, left- on their week’s leave yesterday. On their return they will go into camp at Tauherenikau in order to be near the rifle range at Greytown. The Waikanae camp is thus being abandoned. All the 6th Reinforcements were to have been engaged in manoeuvres daring the whole of last night, but owing to the rain, operations were not carried out.