UNIT QUARTERMASTERS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9634, 14 April 1917, Page 11

UNIT QUARTERMASTERS

A NEW SYSTEM. The system, of allocating the duties of adjutant and quartermaster in Territorial units to one officer, which has prevailed in the past, has now been cancelled and a new order of procedure introduced as follows; — In future the duties of adjutant and quartermaster of units will be performed by separate individuals, and will not be combined in the person of a permanent officer.

Officers commanding units will appoint regimental officers of lower rank than held rank to act as regimental quartermasters for terms not to exceed two years. These officers will continue to serve under the same terms rcg.arding promotion, seniority, and examinations as the other officers of their ranks. The word “quartermaster," in brackets, will follow, in the Army X»ist. the name of the officer acting as quartermaster to his unit pro tem. Officers who at present hold appointments as regimental quartermasters and who have passed tho nrescribed examination as combatant officers in that arm may be absorbed into establishment, with the rank for which their examination qualified them, and a quartermaster detailed. Officers of this class who have not so qualified for combatant rank, but who discharge their duties efficiently, may retain their present appointments until they reach the age-limit of their rank, and will continue to he shown in the Army hist as at present; but in future no officer will be appointed or promoted purely as a quartermaster-