THE DEFENCE FORCES

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 418, 29 January 1909, Page 7

THE DEFENCE FORCES

: ' ■ CENERAL ORDERS. J Orders by the Now Zealand Council ot -Defence ineludo the following- announcements:— '....,. ... Officers' pay and increments.—Disappointment having-, been expressed bj; some officers that their,, pay has not been increased , in.accordance with tho scale published in a General Orders of 1908,.attention is drawn to the proviso printed in the two lines beneath tho tabulated scale on. first page of above order,■ where it is distinotly Set forth that"the increment I on efficiency and report, and, if ■requiroU, a. qualifying examination bofore the 'same is granted. •'"... ™ T ,!??.' re-engagement of Staff Sergeant-MajorJ William Sanderson, Lincolnshire Regiment,, as ■ •Instructor in Infantry dutiee (Wellington district) for a further term with the Now Zealand •Volunteer Fo'rces, as from October, '1908; to j July, 1910, has been sanctioned by the Imperial < Government. .. ■ ■ ; . i ." Appointments, oj, acting-officers cancelled :— ,The appointments of the following acting-of-1 ;fioers nav«. been cancelled for non-compliance :with paragraph 80. of the Defence Regulations '—an •■ aoting-offiper on first appointment muat '.pass the prescribed examination not lator than : the first examination'held in his district &ftor his. having attained • one ■ year's service, eto.—■ Acting-Lieutenant :P. K. Climie; B. Battery, iN.Z.P.A.V.;-Acting-Lieutenant R. M. Taiaroa,' ■Bllesmere: Mounted' 'Eifles; and , ' Acting-Lieu-tenant N.,W...Thorns, Dunedin Cycle Corps. .Resignations,—Captain W.. P. Wall : 8.N.Z.A., .has.retired.from the.servico; the resignation of iAoting-Lieutenant•"]?.". C. Hjorring, Heretaunga Mounted Bifles, has/been Rccepted. ' ' \> ■ Surgeon-Major J. R; Purdy, ■ N.Z. Medical Corps, (will ■perform the duties . of! Principal bMedical Officer for the Wellington district ,'durin? the .absence of' Surgeon Liout.-Coloncl' ,W. E. Collins; Captain -J. W.' Anderson, N.Z. Medical Corps, has been attached to the'staff of No. 2 Battalion, Wellington Rifle Volunteers, 'Major ; J,-Hudson, N.Z.-Medical Corps, to the< iWakatu Mounted.'Bifles, and .Captain T. A. ; I Macgibbon, N.Z. Medioal.Corps, to the Hawera ■Bides, for medical duties, ■■' ; ..■■•. >. .Lieut; J./B, Andrew, Napier Guards, , has been granted a certificate for the rank of captain, v I '.■■ Appointments:—Captain Franks Archdall Raymond. Acting-Major, Soufi Canterbury Battalion ■•■lnfantry■■ Volunteers;.; Captain. Joseph Nathan; , Acting-Captain (Pay, and Quarter-Mas-ter)/; No. 2 Battalion, Auckland Infantry Vohmiteersj.Lieutenant;:Adam 1 Morrison Kattray, ! Aoting'Coptain.v No. 2, Company, Canterbury •Division, 1 :.N.Z. Garrison . Artillery Volunteers; .Norman Edmund Lee, Acting-Lieutenant, No. 1 Cornnany, Canterbury Division, N.Z. Garrison' Artillery .'Volunteers!; John.Black; Aoting-Lieu-:-.tenant,"Otagb'flussar Volunteers; David Bret' LBhjind,. Otago Hussar Volunteers;; Henry-Joseph Faulkner,'. Abting-Lieu-■Urifmt; : W.akatu.'MounteaYlline Volunteers;;Mel;villo Duncan Jones, Abtioig-Lieutenant, WakatuMounted 'Rifle Volunteers ;. James, Donald ■' Burimss,. Aoting-Lieiitenant, Baglan 'Mounted Rifles Volunteers;: Robert John Nicholson,. Acting--JJieutonant, Rafflan.Mounted >Eifie .Volunteers; John Bruce, Acting-Lieutenant, No. 8 Squadron, Waikato Monntcd., Rifle Vohmteers;:.Andrew XflHi»hroy..Graham.Holmes, Aotinß-Lieuteoant,: Rifle Volunteers, , : David. Prosser, Acting-Lieutenant, Heretaunga Mounted, ,Riflo yoltln'teers! Georpe Sheddan, Aoting-Lieu-tenant,,Clutha: Mounted Riflß.Volunteors; Lieusonant Robert Tensdale Emmerson,-Aotintr-Cap-inm'; Cavorsham Rifle. Volunteers; Lieutenant. 'John Cattahach Davidson, Acting-Captain, .Dannevirke Rifle; Vehmteers; George. Perston, Act-:ing-Lieflteti4nt; Palracrston 'North Rifle Volunteers ('• Edward Heat;' Saunder3,' Acting-HniteiK nnt,-Greytflwn Rifle.Volunteers; William Henry Jones,.Aoting-Xiwitenant. Hastings Rifle Volunteers i Peter White, Acting-lieutenant, ■ChriKtehureh Volunteer .Cycle Corps; /Captnin ! 8.-. .8.-'Bndra'an. .has been appointed : . Actin?■Maior, ■.N0....3'' Buttalion, Wellinston • Defence /.Cadets;-. , -- -■;];• ■■'..■■ ...;.; ■:■:',..■..; .■.;■. -. ■■. . ■■ .'• On'and after January 1,1909, tho annual issue .(free)/if, pull-throughs , and oil , .ttranted to Defence C&det CoTpB. will be as.follows!— Mineral ■jell v, four pounds per:'- sixty -stand of - arms; .pull-throughs, one'per-oarbine/' - ■■' fi\- -'-■■■'