NEW ZEALAND COMMANDS.

Northern Advocate, 6 May 1916, Page 4

NEW ZEALAND COMMANDS.

SOME RECENT PROMOTIONS

WELLINGTON, May 4

A list cf'appointments and promotions in the principal commands and staff of the New Zealand Military Forces were announced to.day: Major-General A. J Godley is to to be temporary lieutenant-general, Brigadier-General Russell to be temporary major-general, Colonel Chaytor to be temporary brigadier gene. nil, temporary Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Charteris to be lieutenantcolonel, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Essoin to be eclonel, temporary LieutenantColonel G. T. TI all to be staff officer with rank of lieutenant-colonel. General Staff Officers: First grade, Major Pinwill to have temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel. Second Kra.de, Major Temperley and Major G. li. Reid to be A.A. and Q.M.G. with temporary rank of lieutenant. colonel, Captain C W. Melville to be brigs de-major with temporary rank c l ' major. Artillery: Major Standish to be tempo vary colonel. Infantry: Major Chesney to be brigade-major, Captain F. H. Lampden to be staff-captain, temporary Lieutenant-Colonel R. Young to be lieutenant-colonel and command A Battalion. Medical Corps: LieutenantColonel E. J O'Neil to be temporary A.D. of medical services. Lieuten. anr-Colonel Fenwick to be senior medical officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Parkes to be temporary colonel while employed as D.D. of medical services. New Zealand Rifles: Major M. M." Gardner to be brigade-major, Captain T. R. Eastwood to be staff-cap-tain. Forty.eight non-comissioned officeis are also to be given commissions.

I "Visionaries may babble of peace j (declared .Mr Hughes in one of his London speeches), but the stern lesson which for all ages must be taught j was written in letters of fire which all •i but the wilfully blind might read. If ,; we are to hold this great Empire, we } must be prepared to defend it. Since j the defenc of the country was our J primary duty it was the primary duty lof every free man, and a task which I democracy ought gladly to undertake. : The responsibility for the world's I peace, of civilisation, and future dej mocracy depended on our ability to jdo so. It was not a light task when j they looked into the spaces covered Iby Canada, Australasia, and South i Africa. Australia and Canada were ! both larger than the United States, i South Africa was larger than France j and .Germany combined. America , has a population of 100,000,000, and is ] not secure from danger. Yet these | three Dominions, to say nothing of the i Crown colonies and other Empire outi posts, only had a population of 15,----000,000. Think how the palms of na- ! tions, inflamed with the lust of con- , quest, desiring expansion and wanting a place in the sun, itch to gather those vast, rich, fertile lands within their grasp. Then you will better understand what the defence of the Empire means." For Children's Hacking Cough Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.