NEW ZEALAND ARMY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9596, 28 February 1917, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND ARMY

STAFF CORPS AND TERRITORIAL PROMOTIONS. The following appointments, resignations and transfers of the undermentioned officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force have been appiovod of by His Excellency tho Governor : NEW ZEALAND STAFF CORPS. Major Walter Harry Meddings relinquishes the appointment of assistant quartermaster-general, Canterbury Military District. (Dated January 24th.) Captain Robert Saxton Matthews relinquishes the appointment of adjutant-general. Canleibuiy - , - District (dated January 25th). and i» at>Dointod assistant-quarterrnastei-yen-o?aJ. C-torbury Military District and granted tho temporary rank of major whilst so employed. (Dated. „anuaij 25th). Ist MOUNTED IHFLES (CANTERBURY YEOMANRY CAVALRY). The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (cn probation) Thomas Firbank Gibson is confirmed. NEW ZEALAND FIELD ARTILLERY. Lieutenant Charles Ncwey Mitchell, D Battery i a granted the temporary rant of captain whilst acting as adjutant to the Wellington Field Artillery Bngaac. (Dated November 17th.) . 01lf The appointment ot 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Archibald Arnold Mo I .can. C Battery, is confirmed. CORPS OF NEW ZEALAND ENGINEERS.

Now Zealand Post and Telegraph Corps. Servant George Walter Kite to bo 2nd lieutenant. (Dated August Ist.) I INFANTRY. Ist (Canterbury) Regiment. Lieutenant Dngald Macdonald Roberteon is appointed assistant adjutant-gen-eral (temporarily), Canterbury Military District, and is granted the temporary rank of captain whilst so employed. (Dated January 25th.) 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment. Second Lieutenant Alan Arnold Barton to be lieutenant. (Dated February 9th.) 13th (North Canterbury and Westland) Regiment. Company Sergeant-Major William Shilton to be 2nd lieutenant (tempoyarily). (Dated February Bth.) John Finlaison Sutherland to be 2nd lieutenant (temporarily). (Dated February Bth.) 14th (South Otago) Regiment. Lieutenant Robert Lorimer McLatchie from tho Reserve of Officers, to be lieutenant. (Dated February Bth.) Second Lieutenant Howard W. Boddy is transferred to the Unattached List (b). (Dated February Bth.) NEW ZEALAND ARMY SERVICE CORPS. The appointments of the undermentioned 2nd lieutenants on probation are confirmed under the provisions of paragraph 111, General Regulations, 1913: Alexander Romeo Pollock and James Alfred Aitoheson. NEW ZEALAND FORCES MOTOR SERVICE CORPS. Motor-Car Section. The undermentioned captains to be majors. (Dated February 2nd) -.—John Candlish Allen and John Stewart. The appointment of 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) Clement Charles Scott is confirmed. NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL CORPS. Major Henry O’Brien Deck is appointed a member of a special district medical board and is granted the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel whilst so employed. (Dated January •_ 12th.) . James Robert Boyd to be captain. (Dated October 14th.) Captain George Basil Doyne Adams, M.D., M.R.C.S., Eng., is struck off the strength on account- of ill-health. (Dated. May 27th.) ~ j Warren Hastings Young to bo lieutenant (temporarily) whilst doing duty with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (Dated January 25th.) CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT.

David Angus Gunn, Salvation Army Chaplain (Chaplain to the Forces 4th Class), resigns his commission. (Dated December 23rd.)' UNATTACHED LIST (b).

The undermentioned 2nd lieutenants to be lieutenants. (Dated January 8th): -William Forrest Fowlds, and (under the provisions of paragraph 3, General Regulations, 1913) Martin Driscoll Rohan. Norman McLeod Speer, William Paul Richards, Robert Arthur Barstow. The appointments of the undermentioned 2nd lieutenants on probation are confirmed, under the provisions of paragraph 3. General Regulations, 1913: -Robert Fife Tait, Leonard James Bancroft Chappie, and Denis Quinlan Second Lieutenant Howard W. Boddy, from the 14th (South Otago) Regiment, to be 2nd lieutenant. (Dated February Bth,) MEMORANDUM.

Second Lieutenant (honorary captain) James William Crampton relinquishes the appointment of provost marshal and judge of the Native Court in Samoa. (Dated January 30th.) . .. Second Lieutenant James William Crampton relinquishes the honorary rank of captain, granted temporarily whilst he acted as provost marshal and judge of tho Native Court in Samoa. (Dated January 30th.)