CHANCES TOR WARRANT OFFICERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1630, 23 December 1912, Page 4

CHANCES TOR WARRANT OFFICERS.

OPENINGS VOn COMMISSIONS, It has been decided as a special measure tw throw open nine commissions as lieutenant in tho Permanent Forces of tho Dominion to warrant officers and staff mrg<MiA-iati.iwa of the Jtoyal Now Zealand Artillery and of the Now Zealand Permanent Staff. Seven, of those commissions will l>e in tlis New Zealand Staff Corfu ami two in the lioyal New Zealand Artillery. Tho reason for tho adoption of this coiirw) is that it hag bten found impossible for the existing staff ol permanent officers to continue to duplicate the duties of ftroii officer and adjutant, «s they have hitherto had to do, till Uμ first batch of codnta from tho Boycl Australian Military Collejjo have graduated in 1915. Both the Government arid tho iJe/ene* authorities aro glad t/» have this opportunity of rei/nrninx tho fp.nitiT warrant and nnn-corn-tnissAwhA officers of thft Permanent Forces for the ff/A work imrn by them with the old Volunteerx, and in tho starting of the ii/;vf ■"i.'r.'frit/irift) fort*. The prospects of th<; c&deU now under training for officers at tlio il'jyul Miliary College of Australia will »/>t r/i \fP;)n<\\i-jA by the advance-w-.ni '4 lh'-% warrant and non-commis-ikowA offif/tre te mrnmiwsioned rank. 'I'hcrft h Tiii inUMi'm in th<; future of il'ipiitiiiiii U'nn th«j ni!<!, made on. lord KiU'.h'iJi'-ya advice, that the corps of ofil<*r« (shall )/; i<rtnii*/A by graduatra of thf! Military GoUejfo, for which the comIK;l.itiv<s critranr/j <;zarriiriatiOTi is opea to all htiyn ot all olaay« between the cges of K and II 'J'h') nin<j vcarrant and N.C.O.'s for mmmiim'im will te selected by competitive examination, an<l those desirons of (/imr/;tin({ fchould at obco kiul in their n;itn«i to district headquarters. The examination wili be- held at ■Wellington about the middle of January, and will be of such a nature es to ensure that those candidate) who are best fitted to be officers in a modern army are selected. It wiil be conducted partly on paper and partly in the field.