FOR ACTIVE SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2288, 23 October 1914, Page 6

FOR ACTIVE SERVICE

OFFICERS OF SECOND CONTINGENT LIST OF PROBATIONARY APPOINTMENTS Tho following appointments of officers to subsequent reinforcements of the Expeditionary Force have been made on probation:— Staff—Commander, Lieut.-Colonel Edmund Robert Bowler, 7th (Southland) Mounted Rifles; Staff-Officer, Captain Chas. Eric Andrews, N.Z.S.C. Mounted Rifles—Auckland Regiment: Captain Horace Saxon Whitekorn, (ate Hon. Captain Commonwealth Military Forces; second lieutenants, George Leonard Purchas Brookfield, unattached list (B); William Titley Palmer, 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles. Canterbury Regiment: Captain, G«orge Searight Hardy, Bth (South Canterbury Mounted Rifles); lieutenant, John Coe, Ist' Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry); lieutenant, Vincent Fosberry Nancarrow, Sth (South Canterbury) Mounted Rifles. 'Otago Regiment: Captain, Francis M. Twistleton, ' Officer Commanding Logiori of Frontiersmen; lieutenant, Edgar Seymour Perry, 7th (Southland Mounted Rifles). Wellington Regiment: Major William Fitzgerald Levin, 6th (Ma'nawatu) Mounted Rifles; lieutenant, Francis Arthur Nelson, Queen Alexandra's Second (Wellington-West Coast) Mounted Rifles; lieutenant, Norman Chambers Harris, 6th (Manawatu) Mounted Rifles'; licuteuaut,' Joseph Donald Kay Strang, 9th (WellingtonEast Coast) Mounted Rifles; lieutenant, Holloway Elliott Winder, Queen Alexandra's Second (Wellington-West Coast) Mounted. ■ . ■' Infantry—Auckland, Battalion: Lieutenant, Herbert George Richardson, Coast Defence Detachment, 3rd Auckland). Regiment, Countess of Ranfurly's Own; lieutenant, Lawrence Henry Gillott, 16th (Waikato) Regiment; lieutenant, Geoffrey de Bohun Devereux, 3rd. (Auckland) Regiment, Countess of Ranfurly's Own; second lieutenant, James Robert Bodlcy, 6th (Hauraki) ,' Regiment. Canterbury Battalion: Lieutenant, Loftus Joseph Gibbs, 13th (North Canterbury-West-land) Regiment; lieutenant, Frank Woolman Parker, 12th (Nelson) Regiment; lieutenant, Newman Robert Wilson, unattached list (B); second lieutenant, Arthur Frederick Richard Rohlof, Corps of "New Zealand Engineers (New Zealand Railway Battalion). Otago Battalion: Major, George Mitchell Bth (Southland) Regiment; captain, Duncan Colquhon, 14th (South Otago) Regiment; lieutenant, Frederick Arthur Ruck, unattached list (B); second lieutenant, Henry Robert Ker, 4th (Otago) Regiment, Coast Defence Detachment.: .Wellington Battalion Major, Lieut.-Colonel Alexander Bur-

nett Charters, 17th (Ruahine) Regiment ; lieutenant, Robert Davies Hardie, 7th (Wellington-West Coast) Regiment; lieutenant, Alexander Frandi, unattached list (B); lieutenant, Ivan Hirschberg, 17th (Ruahine) Regiment; lieutenant, do Auvergne Stanley Leigh Grut, unattached list (B); lieutenant, Richard William Wrightson, un? attached list (B). !

Signal Company—Lieutenant, Hector Campbell Mackenzie, unattached list (B).

Divisional train (one company): Second lieutenant, Cyril Laughton Crump, unattached list (B). Army Pay Department (at base): Major, Samuel James Bolton, P. and T. Corps- (as' captain). New Zealand Army Service Corps: Second lieutenant, George Eliot Elliott. Howitzer Battery: Major ,dr captain, Captain ■ Alfred Charles ' Cornwallis Stevens, N.Z.S.C.; captain, Norris Stephen. Falla, B Battery,- N.Z. Field Artillery; lieutenant, Reginald Miles, Royal N.Z. Artillery; lieutenant, Duncan Eric Gardner, J Battery, N.Z. Field Artillery; lieutenant, Henry James Daltry. No. 4 Company, N.Z. Garrison Artillery; second lieutenant, Leslie Victor Hulbcrt, No, 9 Company, N.Z. Garrison Artillery.

Patriotic and relief fund socials have been organised in every district surrounding Pahiatua with excellent success. A garden fete is being arranged to take place in Pahiatua next month in aid of the Belgian Relief Fund, The Pabiatiia Swimming Club, at a special meotiim this week, donated £5 to the Belgian Relief Fund, while a similar sum was contributed to the same .fund by tlio Pahiatua Honorary Territorials. —Pahiatua correspondent. SHOOTING ACCIDENT. By Tclegranh—Press Aseociation-CopyriEM (Rec. October 23, 0.5 a.m.) Sydney, October 22. A tragic shooting accident occurred at* \rundalo. A youth named Bowen, sayi'n": "If vou were a German this is v;lint°l would do to you," playfully pointed a gun which went ok and shot' his sister, aaed 21, dead,