DEFENCE APPOINTMENTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 214, 19 December 1910, Page 5

DEFENCE APPOINTMENTS

THE NEW SCHEME.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.

The following officers and non-com-missioned officers, having been recommended for posts as adjutants and instructors under the new defence scheme, have been warned to attend the camp of instruction near Wellington about January 7th next. They are to be distinctly given to understand that their attendance at the camp gives no guarantee that they will be taken on permanently,' and that they will be liable to dismissal* from the camp at any time during their six months' probation should they be found unsuitable.

Adjutants. Auckland: Mounted,' Captains Bosworth, Hay and Nutsford; infantry, Captains Cumming and Burgess, Lieut. Morton.Wellington. —Mounted, Captains Morrison, Glendinning, and Blair, Lieutenants Spragg, Richardson, and Couper j infantry, Captain Roche, Lieutenants Wheeler, Campden, and F. G. Hume. Nelson.—Mounted, Captain R. S. Matthews ; infantry, Captain C. J. A. Brown. Canterbury.—Mounted, Captains Meddings and Hawkins; infantry, Captains Finnis, C. E. Andrews, and Mcßean. Otago—Mounted, Captain Turnbull, Lieutenant Banks; infantry, Captains W. A. Mackenzie, Fraser, and F. Hudson. Instructors. —Auckland: Mounted, H. J. Dunham, Sergt.-Major R. Simpson; infantry, E. Tingey, W. B. Hobbs, Sergt. J. W. West, and Hon. Lieut. J. R. Hoi--den.

Wellington. —Mounted, J. H. Olney, E. W. Grant, W. H. Lett, R. Mooney; infantry, Corporal J. Morrison, Sergt, Woodward, Sergt. J. W. Steele, Sergt. R. F. Dobson, E. J. Ryan, Color-Sergt. C. Grendell.

Canterbury.—Mounted, Captain C. S. P. Nicholls, Sergt.-Major Salt,/ Sergts. McGunn and A. M. Thatcher; infantry Sergts. Stedman and Glanville, Lieut. Moncrieff.

Otago.—Mounted,, J. J. Connolly, Sergt. Don, Corporal Cuff, Lieut. Kerr; infantry. Bombardiers Wright and Quinn, Sergts. Davis, F. Ivimey, Davidson;, and ColortSergt. Stevenson.