MILITARY NOTES.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5476, 18 September 1929, Page 4

MILITARY NOTES.

THE HAURAKI REGIMENT. Annual Camp. The annual camp of the battalion will be held at Paeroa this training year. Officers, n.c.o.’s, and trainees from isolated centres will assemble on February 12, and the remaining trainees on February 15. The camp will break up on February 22, The Colours. The new Colours presented to the battalion by the Paeroa Returned Soldiers will be formally presented on Thursday, February 20. On that day the ceremony of Trooping the Colours will be performed by the battalion. APPOINTMENTS. The following changes of appointment, caused through reorganisation, have been promulgated :— Hearquarters Wing. No. 1 Group.—Commanding officer, Lieut.-Colonel F. Prideaux ; second in command, Major’ E. A. Porritt, M.C.; signalling officer, Lieut. D. H. Cameron ; intelligence officer (vacant). No. 2 Group.—Anti-tank officer (vacant). No. 3 Group.—Quartermaster, (vacant) ; transport officer, 2nd. Lieut. H. R. Haeusler. Machine-gun Company.—Company commander, Major W. C. I. Sumner ; second in command, Lieut. J. M. Allen; No. 1 (m.g.) platoon, 2nd Lieut. C. J. Luxton; No. 2 (m.g.) platoon, 2nd Lieut. N. W. Steele; No. 3 (m.g.) platoon, 2nd Lieut. T. R. Birdsall ; No? 4 (m.g.) platoon, 2nd Lieut. S. Nicholson. A Company.—Company commander, Captain G. H. Nicholls ; second in command, Captain A. B. Ranby ; No. 1 platoon, (vacant) ; No. 2 platoon, Lieut. J. M. Fox ; No. 3 platoon, 2nd Lieut. K. Haslett; No. 4 platoon, 2nd Lieut. N. Corcoran. B Company.—Company commander, Captain F. G. Platt; second in command, Lieut. C. A. Le Lievre ; No. 5 .platoon, 2nd Lieut. J. H. Thomas ; No. 6 platoon, 2nd Lieut. G. E. Wilkins ; No. 7 platoon, (vacant); No. 8 platoon J (vacant). C Company.—Company commander, Major C. L. Knight, M.C. ; second in command, 2nd Lieut. J. R. Lockhead ; No. 9 platoon, 2nd Lieut. J. A. Speer ; No. 10 platoon, 2nd Lieut. A. J. Dixon ; No. 11 platoon, 2nd Lieut. J. Melville ; No. 12 platoon, 2nd Lieut. R. Jones. , Edward William Peace Massey to be 2nd-lieutenant (on probation), and posted to the Ist C. Battalion. Dated August 23, 1929. N.C.O. Promotions. Waihi.—Corporal C. Huon to be sergeant; Privates W. A. Dunstan, W. Ludwig, J. A. McConnell, and J. Toms to be corporals ; Privates R. Keane, L. J. Orchard, and W. J. Potier to be lance-corporals. Paeroa.—Sergeant I. M.,Vause to be company quartermaster sergeant; Corporals R. E. Bramley and N. A. Campbell to be sergeants ; Private L. E. Masters to be corporal. Hikutaia.—Corporal W. H. Alley to be sergeant; Privates A. C. Bailey and A. H. Darrah to be corporals ; Privates R. C. A. Hansen and F. B. Hansen to be lance-corporals.