OFFICERS' STATUS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 23 May 1919, Page 8

OFFICERS' STATUS

GOVERNMENT'S DECISION

(BY TELEGRAPH —PBESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, May 23.

It is officially notified that the posting of officers from the Expeditionary Force to the -Territorials has been suspended. Officers of the Territorial Force, who after March 25th, 1918, are struck off tihe strength of the latter, will be temporarily posted to the reserve list, in which they will retain the rank acquired on active service. These will be regarded as a".suspense" list, from which officers will afterwards be posted to (a) active list territorials; (b) reserve of officeis; (c) retired list. Those considered unsuitable for territorial service or desiring to terminate their commissions, will be retired or otherwise disposed of. It is intended to accommodate officers from the Expeditionary Force in the Territorial Force with the ranks owned on active service in so far as the interests of the service will permit, but a general allotment will not. be possible till demobilisation has further progressed.