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Director of Intelligence. Intelligence. Preparation and issue of maps. Headquarters library. In Districts. Officers of the Commonwealth Section of the Imperial General Staff will, under the respective Commandants, carry out the duties in districts corresponding to those laid down for the Commonwealth Section of the Imperial General Staff at Headquarters. New Zealand. The Dominion Section of the Imperial General Staff was organized in December, 1910, as follows : — Dominion Section of the Imperial General Staff. Director of Military Training and Staff Duties— Lieutenant-Colonel E. S. Heard, p.s.c, Imperial General Staff. Attached to the General Staff — Captain H. H. Brown (Mounted Services). Captain G. S. Richardson (Garrison and Field Artillery Services). Captain J. E. Duigan (Engineer Services). (An additional officer to be appointed.) Director of Military Operations and Intelligence — Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Burnett-Stuart, D.5.0., p.s.c, Imperial General Staff. Attached to the General Staff — (An officer to be appointed.) Major-General A. J. Godley, C.8., combines the functions of Chief of the local section of the Imperial General Staff with his duties as Commandant of the Defence Forces. The New Zealand Government have applied for the services of four more General Officers, who will shortly proceed to take up their appointments as 3rd Grade General Staff Officers in districts. South Africa. When the various self-governing South African Colonies received the Imperial General Staff Memorandum early in 1909 they were unable to enter into any engagement in view of the great impending political change. The Governor-General of South Africa has now transmitted a minute from the Union Government of South Africa acknowledging receipt of the Memorandum on Loans, Attachments, and Interchanges, and stating that they are not yet in a position to gauge what will be the actual requirements of the Union Defence Forces. Necessity for having One Supreme Head to the Imperial General Staff. This necessity was recognized and the Chief of the General Staff became the Chief of the Imperial General Staff. This change of title was effected in November, 1909. Subjects with which Local Sections of tt,e Imperial General Staff should deal. It was recommended in the Imperial General Staff Memorandum, dated the 7th December, 1908, that these sections should deal with— 1. Local defence. 2. The training of troops on lines similar to those now followed for the United Kingdom by the Training Directorate at the War Office. These subjects are now being dealt with by the Commonwealth Section of the Imperial General Staff in Australia, and by the Canadian General Staff, Canada. The New Zealand Section of the Imperial General Staff has had little time to do more than organize the new formation and arrange the allotment of duties ; but these are already well in hand, and some progress has been made in the direction of training officers and non-commissioned officers.