THE TERRITORIALS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2522, 24 July 1915, Page 11

THE TERRITORIALS

SOME PROMOTIONS,

The following promotions and appointments in tho New Zealand Territorial Forces have been approved by His Excellency tho Governor: Corps of New Zealand Engineers. Mounted Signal Troops. Lieut. Lancelot Tuckwell Herbert, to bo captain.' 7th (Wellington West Coast) Regiment. Sergt. Alfred Cranstone C'owie, to bo 2nd lieutenant. 9th (Hawke's Bay) Regiment. 2nd Lieut. Richard Leslie Anderson, from the Ist (Canterbury) Regiment, to be 2nd lieutenant. lltli Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). Liout. Frank Locke Hartnell, to be captain. . t Company Sorgt.-Major Frank Edward Clarke, to be 2nd lieutenant. 2nd Lieut, (on probation) Robert Henry Espiner, from tho Unattached List (b), to be 2nd lieutenant (on probation). Now Zealand Medical Corps). Thomas Harcourt Ambrose Valintiiui, M.R.C.S.. L.R.C.P., D.H.P., Chief Health Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals, is granted tho honorary rank of coloneL The notice published in the New Zealand . Gazette dated January 28, 1915, relative to tho appointment of Edward Yeates. F.R.C.5.1., as captain, is cancelled at his own request.

One day recently one of the coal lumpers engaged in No. 3 hold of tho collier Koonyong, lying at Port Adelaide, drove his shovel through what is believed to he a plug of geliguito. The man discovered that ho had l driven his shovel witliiu an inch of a detonator, used in the gelignite. Attached to the detonator was a piece of fuse. He. handed his find over to Captain Chapman, the manager of tho coal depot, and it was impounded. Whether tho gelignite had been placed there by design or whether it got there accidentally as an unexploded charge from tho colliery at which tho coal was obtained is a matter for conjecture. Captain Chapman inclines to'the view that it was intentionally lodged in tho hold, as this was the third instance of a similar kind ho had heard of recently. Tho weight of the plug would be from three to four ounces, and if it.hadl been exploded could have caused serious damage. The Wellington branch of the New Zealand Boot Trade Federated Employees' Union is urging its Executive' Council to make representations to the Boot Manufacturers' Association to agree to a scheme whereby New Zealand-made footwear shall bear a distinctive mark of origin. The local branch holds that this is a good time to-initiate such a scheme, as tho craze for imported footwear is' decreasing.