New Zealand.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 84, 7 August 1915, Page 5

New Zealand.

CASUALTY LIST. DIK1) OF KXTEKIC FEVER Field Engineers. Supper A. I). G. Qua vie. Field Artillery. Gunner F. A. Scholium'. Ota go Battalion. Private F. Gillespie. Canterbury .Mounted. Sergeant S. C. Everitt.

DIED OF WOUNDS

GREEK HOSPITAL. ALEXANDRIA

Canterbury Battalion Private J. A. Hewitt

ARRIVED AT BASK DEPOT FROM .M AL'I A. CON V AI . ESCENT.

Field Artillery. Corporal J. J. Cowan Auckland Mounted. Trooper Elsenhut Trooper T. Stiehbury Trooper C. Wood Otago Mounted. Trooper C. Cowan Trooper R. E, Weddge Wellington Mounted. Trooper F. W. Sylvis Trooper W. C. Snell SICK NOW CONVALESCENT

Auckland Battalion. Private A. Caldwell Private H. T. Ford Canterbury Battalion. Private C. Strang Private C. J. Malloy Otago Battalion. Private H. A. Carruthers Wellington Battalion Lance-Corporal B. Cooke Private, S. E. Cole Private H. Gibble Field Engineers. Sapper F. F. E. Baker Auckland Mounted. Trooper E. S. Hall

Canterbury Mounted. Trooper (.'. A. Peek EMBARKED FOR ENGLAND Field A m Iml hi ice. Private \V. A. MeNiven

Field Engineers. Sapper J. l'\ -Moriarty PRONOUNCED OUT OF DANGER

Wellington Battalion. Major J. W. Brunt ADMITTED TO EGYPTIAN ARMY HOSPITAL, ABSSYA. CAIRO.

O.tago Battalion. Private 1. P. Corbet! Private W. B. Cruickshank Private \V. O'Halloran Private T. C. Wade Private G. B. Knight Private E. J. Bartlett Private W. S. Lindsay Private P. J. McGill Private A. Shipiaan Otugo Mounted. Corpora! \V. K. Cameron Corporal W. M. Dwyer Wellington Battalion. La nce-Corpora 1 S.'" FT' Tverr Private H. Sewell Private W. Wallace

Wellington Mounted Trooper C. D. Campion Trooper S. J. Mitchell Trooper H. G. T. Duley Trooper S. G. Gilmour Trooper G. H. Patton

Canterbury Battalion. Lance-Corporal T. L. Franklin Private W. E. Fearon Canterbury Mounted. Trooper W. B. Starkey Trooper M. A. B. [nglis Trooper L. Nicholas Private J. Lott Private H. Armstrong Private H. Samuels Auckland Battalion. Lieut. A. B. Hatt Corporal G. J. Ware Private A. L. Neilson Private H. L. Hey wood Auckland Mounted. Trooper B. De L Campbell Field Engineers. Sapper F. H. Bath Sapper G. Millar Field Artillery. Corporal H. L. Patterson Medical Corps. Private H. Allen PROMOTIONS IN THE FORCES. Per Press Association'. Wellington, August 6. . The Governor has approved of the following" grants oi : temporary rank promotions and appointments of officers employed with the New Zealand expeditionary forces in Europe:— Wellington Battalion—Major George Thompson Hall. New Zealand Army Service Corps, is granted the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, while employed as officer commanding the base of details; dated May 20. 1915. To be second lieutenants. —Corporal James Hawthorn (.'ray. 7th (Wellington and West Coast) Company, vice Lieutenant Lawrence William Albert Hugo, killed in action; dated May 5, LOT"). Private Allan Henry Preston, fHh Hawke's Bay) Company, vice Lieutenant Kdninnd Robinson Wilson, killed ia action; dated May 3, 1915. Sergeant "Henry Masterton Clark. NewZealand Engineers, vice Second Lieutenant Sydney William Paine. killed in action ; dated Mav 28, 191").

THE NEW BATTALIONS

Wellington, August li

The effect of the Government's cleeision to enlarge the New Zealand in-

lantry lorco by two now battalions will 1 be to raise the strength of the infantry section of the force in. field to I two lull brigades of 8000 rifles. New j Zealand originally sent away one infantry brigaue of four battalions, and in April last it was decided to send another two battalions, or half a brigade, which have since been the Treutbam Regiment Lord Liverpool's Own). The raising of two new battalions, pins the Ist reinforcements, will mean the calling up ol 220 men. and thereafter 300 men p;«r month to

reinforce them throughout the duration of the war. The new battalions, !to establish ami maintain in the held, will thus require 3SOO for the first twelve months, and thereafter 3600 •men per annum. The new battalions in all probability will not be called tip until the Tivntham Regiment leaves New Zealand. This will enable the authorities to provide proper accommodation and equipment for them. Jn the meantime New Zealand, when the new units go into camp, will then have some 11.200 men in training, and will have despatched some 25.000 to the front. •