DEFENCE DEPARTMENT.
STAFF CHANGES.
(PEESS ASSOCIATION TEMECSASIS.) • WELLINGTON, May 27: . ,=- It is reported that several important changes in connexion with the general -._;. staff are likely to take place shortly. 'H ' As las already bceu officially ao-- -\<, nouiieed, Colonel £. S. Heard, chief of. '~\t tho General Staff, will bo returning td, *• }; England in July, and it is (stated that X*[: Colonel E. W. C. Cboytor, officer «om-' )] ■ manding Wellington Military Distr«:u '> ■with .headquarters at .Palmerston ■ -..:.- Noith, is to bo promoted to Doinimou ■. \ headquarters, Wellington, though what -»/> offiofi ho ia to fill has not been men- .; It is also stated, that Colonel Chaytor - ~X v to be succeeded at Palmerston-NnrtD • ."'- ---by Major Johnetone, an Imperial officer 3 who Is at present in-Mew. Zealand op . ; - furlough from India. ■ ■
Colonel V. S. Smyth, officer commanding the Canterbury Military IJI7-. trkt u-tll bo leaving for England shortly on twelve months. , leave of absence, and while ho is awavhurduties will be carried on b- R. A. Chaffey, Bnaadier of the Canterbury Mourn-;. Rifles Brigade.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14979, 28 May 1914, Page 6
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168DEFENCE DEPARTMENT. Press, Volume L, Issue 14979, 28 May 1914, Page 6
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