THE DEFENCE FORCES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 2

THE DEFENCE FORCES.

GENERAL ORDERS. ' General orders by the Now Zcalanj Council of Defence include tho follow* ing announcements — Resignations—Major W A* Bonnett, 4th Regiment, Aiiokland Mounted Rifle ; i Volunteers, to acUvo Ust (unattached), Captain W Hewitt, Alexandra South Riflo Volunteers, to active list (unattached), Captain J H Moir, Kaitanfata Rifle Volunteers, to captain (adjutant), , s ith Battalion Otngo Rifle Volunteers; Liout T T Gill, Otaraatea Mounted Tifle Volunteers, to actno list (unat- ' I taohed), Lieut E Lacey, No 2 Compan> New Zealand Engineer Volunteers (Dunedm Volunteers), to active Us , - (un> attached), Liout A H Skolten,"No 3 Company New Zealand Native Riflo Vol- r unteers Rev B T Rothwell, honorarj 1 chaplain, Hutt Valley Riflo Volunteers! Ra\ J Homo, honorary chaplain, Wallace Mounted Rifle Volunt«tr6; R H. Davis, ncting-liovltenant (on re-«loction), Ashburton Rifle Voluntesrs; Liout G. S. Hordv, acting-captain, Afthburton MonnJ tetl Riflo Vohmteer4, J B Davis, notinglieutenant, Kolburno Riflo Volunteers! W Hft^V ll '';' acting lieutenant, Cantcrburj Mounled 1 Rifle Volunteers i D Hill,' ncting lieutenant, Whansaroi Rifle A r oluntoers, E , Jl. Orr, aotmglicutcnant, Ashburfon Mounted .Riflu ' Volunteers; C C Fatcr6on, actlng-lieu-i tenant (on ro-clcction), JRangiora Rifle Volunteers, E E Crawshaw, lieutenant, Canterburj Native Riflo Volunteers! T W Ongley, lieutenant, Oamaru Rifle Volunteers, Rev H V Holbroofc, honorary chaplain, Anckland Division of New Zealand Gnrrlson Artillery Volunteers! Captain J H Moir,' captain and adjutant, 4th Battalion, Otago Rifle Vftlunteers ', Promotions —Ceptain (Abtmg-Majcr) John M Forrester 3rd Battalion. Otaw Rifle Volunteers to bo major, Lieut F. A Poarce, Wliangarei R'flo Volunteers, to be captain, Lieut H C GlcndinwK, "D" Battory, New Zoiland field Artillery Volunteers, to be cantam. Certificates of rank—Tlio ■underirentioncd officer i, having passed an etannnation under tho Central Board of » Militirj Examination, have been prnnted , certificates tor tho rank for which tnoy qualified — * Lieut G W Cockroft, Rinfurly Rifle Volunteers, fur l ahk of captam, Lient T. Prendenlle, Ckctahuna Mounted Riflo Volunteers, for mnk of cantrun. Appointments —YT R Gillcspio (for< morlv heuteilant, Huntly Riflo Volunteers) to 1)0 lieutenant on the active list ~ (unattached). N