New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 5, 6 May 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

ARMY APPOINTMENTS. Per Press Association. Wellington, May 5. His Excellency the Governor has approved of the undermentioned grants of temporary rank, promotions, appointments. and resignations of officers employed with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force;—■ Staff Lieut.-Colonel W. G. Braithwaite, D. 5.0., P.S.C., Imperial General Staff, from General Staff Officer, first grade. Major Charles Shawe. reserve of officers Rifle Brigade (The Prince Con--1 sort’s Own) to be General Staff OffiI • cor. third grade, with the grant ot temporary rank. Major X. C. Hamilton, Army Service Corps,. Commanding the Divisional Train, to have the temporary rank of , Lieut.-Colonel while so employed. | The following captains of the New Zealand Staff Corps to have the temporary rank of major while serving ! with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; Captains H. J. Brown and Guy Bowles to he majors; Captain N. C. Hamilton (Army Service Corps), and Captain N. S. Falla (New Zealand i Howitzer Battery) to be captains. ] The following lieutenants (dental surgeons) to be captains:—William MacDonald, William Aitken, John Connor, Donald Stewart Milne, Kenneth McCormack, John Philip Jory, Thomas Russell Ritchie, Francis Par--1 nell Tymons, John Ballam Don, William Gladstone Scanned, George Stanley Sharpe, Bertrand Sibbald Finn. | Douglas Mannsell Beere, Arthur LunJan Logan,'Ernest Herbert Rawson, [Raymond Alfred Dearsley, Donald ,Benjamin Green, John Sanders, Fairchild. William Mackenzie j Lieut. F. Waite (New Zealand Engineers). Lieut. P. B. Greeuhough (New Zealand Field .Artillery), and Lieut. H. J. Daltry (New Zealand Howitzer Battery), Quartermaster (Hon. Captain) E. P. Coady (Canterbury Mounted Rifle Regiment), Eeomid Lie’t. H. L. Joll (Queen Alexandra’s 2nd ‘W'L.ugton West Coast Mounted Rifles' have resigned. Honorary consulting su gear. Sir Lambert Cronsby, M TV, F.B C.S., to e hovorarv consult.eg surgeon to ;ho New Zealand Expel’*unary Kc’ve v.ith the honorary rank of Lient-Colonel in the New Zealand Medical (orps. 'WJH MISCELLANEOUS. j Wellington, May . The transport which returned from (Egypt this morning brought 113 men of all ranks, under Captain Sharp, from the main expeditionary force. The party comprised 69 tank and file and two officers invalided, four prisoners to complete sentences, one officer and 11 men of the medical corps, one chaplain, one dental officer, and 24 nien classed as “undesirable.” The names of the returned men will not he available until the authorities have had time to verify the lists.

The two Germans who escaped last night from Somes Island were recaptured this afternoon at Orongorongo by a party of military police. Auckland, May <5.

Acting on the suggestion of Mr J. H. Pagui, the Auckland Rugby Union at this evening’s meeting decided to ask its delegates to place before the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union a recommendation that all suspensions be removed from the Rugby L'nion players who have left or who leave the Dominion with the expeditionary force or reinforcements. Advice has been received from Pretoria that Lieutenant Ronald Mauieson, 38 years of age, of the Imperial Light Horse, has been killed in action in German South-West Africa. He belonged to Tauranga, where his mother still resides. NEW PLYMOUTH ENLISTMENTSThe names of the twenty-two men uho Have been accepted are; — Hoy F. Daircl (-New Plymouth). " .Mu a ley Uolion (Bell Block), Henry W . beadle (.New Plymouth). Uiaf B. Bertram (Waitara). . Percy X. Cornett (Okato). William H. Falconer (New Plymouth. Aioert E. Howell (Okato). Edward .Jury (Waitara). Beorge C. ivaipo (Waitara). Bm-ige C. Plummer (Strathmore). M illiam Pearce (New Plymouth). Frederick H. Rider (New Plymouth) > Caarles S. fuutenbury (Waitara). Harry Richardson (Waitara). Henry W. G. Smyth (Opunake). Amos E. Still (New Plymouth). George 1). Skelton (Fitzroy). . , !• rederic k L. Truman (.New Plymouth). George Thornton (Waitara). Thomas M. Winiki (Midhirst). Edgar A. Whatt (Kohurataiu). Norman White (New Plymouth). SOUTH TAHANAKI LIST. The following men enlisted at Hawera yesterday:— Alfred E. Colins (Eltham). P. H. Tonaweri (Waitotara). Ernest E. Fitawater (Patea). Daniel P. O’Neill (Patea). John T. .McLeod (Okaiawa). (Tonies S. Smith (Hawera). John R. Sinclair (Manaia). Robert A. Law (Kaponga). C. F. McGechie (Kapuni). Frank O’KeifVe (Eltham). W. H. Kake (Eltham).