MILITIA BRANCH.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Auckland, 16th January; 1862. Sir, — The issue of new regulations for the enrolment of Volunteers in New Zealand necessitates the disbandment of the present force, aod I have to request you, in communicating this circumstance to the respective Commanding Officers of Volunteer Corps, to express through them to tbe officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of each corps the full appreciation by his Excellency the Governor of the public spirit which led to the formation df these corps, and to convey to them his Excellency's best thanks for the services which they have thus leudetcd to the colony in a time of difficulty.
In these sentiments His Excellency's responsible advisers cordially join. The new regulations have been framed with view to the further encouragement of the Volunteer movement and to the permanent establishment in this colony of a Volunteer force on an improved basis, and it is earnestly hoped that they will lead to the attainment of so desirable a result.
William Fox. Lieut.-Oolonel Balneavis, Deputy-Adjutant General.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1703, 25 February 1862, Page 5
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