NEW ZEALAND STAFF

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3158, 9 August 1917, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND STAFF

ITS WAR RECORD AT HOME AND ABROAD

' Some information regarding the war service of members'of the, New Zealand Staff is given in the annual report ot the Defence Department. When the war bean the New Zealand Staff Corps was eighty-four strong; since then seventeen cadets from the Duntroon College havo been talcen on strength, making; the total 101 The 'disposition of these in respect to Hie present war has been as follows:--Transferred to Koyal New Zealand Arti - lery and on active service, 10; left Acvv Zealand on active service, li; now awaiting embarkation for active ¥U lC \ ;'V retained in New Zealand to fill epec.al appointment, 3; wtiredl; unfit for service or over ago, 10 Eight of the Staft Corps officers have lost their lives at the front, 45 are still serving, with ,the. fccpeditionary Force, 17 are now on duty in New Zealand, 2 have retired, 1 is on leave pending retirement, and 1 is still in no*. P At'present there are twenty-nine cadets under instruction at the Royal IJiMwy College of Australia, Duntroon, who will rfceivo commissions in the New Zealand Staff Corps as they qualify, As the estab-, lishment at present authorised .will not be sufficient-to meet future requirements, an increase in the various ranks at the close of the war is under consideration, and it is proposed that a number of vacancies for lieutenants be thrown open to the warrant officers and non-comm* ■aoned officers of the E.N.Z.A. and NZ.P.S in recognition of the r services in the commissioned ranks ot the JjXpeditiona.ry Force and in temporary appointments in the Dominion 1 is morosed to mako appointments, to theso vacancies on the results of a competitive TSfsw of «,r the New-ta-land Permanent Staff was 214 strong. Since Augiwt, *. '«>'. "° New nointincnts have been made to the Zealand Permanent Staff, all vacancies bo ii" filled by temporary inetriictors who •ro en"a"cd for the duration of the war. in m"& the-' appointments preference as a ,s°possible Pl is given lo returned wldtars. The distribution of -x he New Zealand Permanent Staff is t-nown .s -ri^S^dut o^:0^: la warranty eors and non-commiesioned officers of the Hew Zealand Permanent, btaff who lett New Zealand on active service has been h, follows-.-Killed in action or died of commissioned officers of the New to ana •Permanent Staff who have been letainert stSsVKe'who have been itailed "ofduhfin New «L°Ml fit Md under orders to embark, enss ■&$; "B-B The establishment of ««1<»'». °I{,*J! twenty, or six oyer esrnhlishmfcnt. umy on active service and one n arv Force.