MILITARY FORCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21049, 7 December 1931, Page 10

MILITARY FORCES.

OFFICERS' APPOINTMENTS. CHANGES GAZETTED. A number of promotions, appointments and transfers of officers in the New Zealand Military Forces lias been gazetted. Major "W. G. Stevens, R.N.Z.A., has been appointed general staff officer at general headquarters, replacing Captain 11. C. C. Steele, who will relinquish his post on proceeding to the Staff College at Camberley, England. Major Stevens will relinquish Ins position as officer commanding the Royal New Zealand Artillery, Central Command, but will continue his present appointment as oflicer commanding the training depot, Trentham Camp. The artillery officer commanding the Central Command will bo Captain G. B. Parkinson, who will retain his present appointment as staff captain at general headquarters. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Armstrong will relinquish command of the WellingtonEast Coast Mounted Rifles, and will be transferred to the reserve of officers, while Major H. B. Maunsell has been promoted to lieutenant-colonel and appointed to command the regiment. Among the other notifications is advice that Lieutenant. J. Veitch, of tho Auckland Mounted .Rifles, has been promoted to captain, and tho appointments of Second-Lieutenants J. S. Mackenzie and H. C: Sibley, of the Hauraki Regiment, have been confirmed.

BIVOUACS IN WAIKATO. ARRANGEMENTS ANNOUNCED. [FROM OUB, OWN COKBIiSPONDENT.] HAMILTON, S«.-nJay. Preliminary arrangements a:tL, leing made for the annual bivouacs under the revised military training scheme for units in the Waikato. Ist Battalion, Waikato Regiment, will enter camp at the beginning of February aj, either Hopu llopu or the Claudelands show grounds. It is anticipated that about 200 trainees will bo under canvas. The Bay of Plenty Squadron of the Waikato Mounted Rifles will commence training at Rotorua in May, while the other squadrons will bivouac at Cambridge during April.