THE DEFENCE FORCES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15494, 21 December 1910, Page 10

THE DEFENCE FORCES.

RE-ARRANGEMENTS AT HEADQUARTERS. [Per Press Association.]

December 20. The following re-arrangements at Defence Headquarters of the duties of the' General Staff and of the department of adjutant and quarter-master general have been approved:— Dominion Section of Imperial General. Staff—Director of Military Training and Staff Duties, Lieut.-Colonel E. S. Heard, Imperial General Staff. Attached to General Staff—Captain H. H. Browne (mounted services). Captain G. S. Richardson (garrison and field artillery services). Additional officer yet to be appointed. Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, Lieut.-Col. J. T. Burnett Stuart, D. 5.0., Imperial General Staff. Attached to General Staff officer— Officers to be appointed. Department of Adjutant and Quarter-master-general—Adjutant and Quartermaster general to forces, Colonel A. W. Robin, C. 8., N.Z.M. Assistant adjutant general and assistant quarter-master general to be appointed. Subordinate departments under the Adjutant and Quarter-master General will remain for the present as they now stand. The duties hitherto carried out by the Chief of the General Staff and the Inspector-General respectively will be merged in the office of Commander of the Forces.