N.Z. ARMY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3015, 28 February 1917, Page 5

N.Z. ARMY

(PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. His Excellency the Governor has approved of the appointments, promotions, resignations, and transfers of officers of |<the New Zealand Staff Corps and Territorial Force!■'■;■ ._ ":'".'. .- • : ■ New Zealand Staff Corps'. ; Major Walter Harry Meddings ■. relinquishes the- appointment .of Assistant. 'JQuartermaster-General. Canterbury Military District. . ■ ; ' Captain Robert: Saxton. Matthews relinquishes tho appointment of Aesistant-''Adjutant-Genoral, Canterbury Military i)istrict. ■■-■■- ; ,'. - . Captain Bobert Saxton Matthews is apUiarnted Assistant-Quartermaster-General, -Canterbury Military District, . and is granted the . temporary rank of Major Whilst eo employed. New Zealand Field Artillery. ' ; Lieutenant Charles-Ncwe'y Mitchell, D >33attery> is granted tho' temporary rank jot' Captain whilst actios as Adjutant to (the Wellington Field Artillery Brigade. • The appointment of Second Lientenant Jon probation) Archibald Arnold M'Lcan, ;C Battery, is confirmed.. Corps of New Zealand Engineers. New Zealand. Post and Telegraph Corps.—Sergeant Georgo Walter Kite to jbe Second Lieuten'ant. '■ ,7th (Wellington' West Coast) Eegiroont. {--Second Lieutenant Alan Arnold Barton jto bo Lieutenant. -'■''.-

(New Zealand Forces Motor Service Corps. .--. Motor-Car 'Section.—Captains John Candlish Allen and John- Stewart lo bo iMajors...

Now Zealand Medical Corps. ; Major Henry O'Brien Deck is appointed fa. member of a special-District Medical '{Board, and is granted the temporary rank j>i Lieutenant-Colonel whilst so employed. "• Captain George Basil; Doyno Adams, ar.D., MJJ.C.S., Eng.. is struck off tho on account of ill-health. Warren Hastings Young to be Lieutenant (temporarily) whilst doing duty with line Now Zealand Expeditionary Forco. New Zealand Chaplains' Department. /David Angus Gunn. Salvation Armv Chaplain (Chaplain to tho Forces, -ilk iclass) resigns his commission.