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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 4

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Colonel P. H. Bell, D.S.O., at present in command of the Southern Military District, has been appointed Quarter-master-General at Army Headquarters. He will also become 3rd Military Member of the. Army Board. Lieut.- Colonel E. T. Rowllings, Deputy Adjutant-General, will take over command of the Southern Military District, with the rank of temporary colonel, Lieut.-Colonel R. A. Row, D.S.O., is to take over command of the Central Military District with the rank of temporary colonel. He will succeed Brigadier E. Puttick, who is detailed for duty with the 2nd New Zealand Division. Lieut.-Colonel S. D. Mason has been appointed camp commandant, Burnham Military Camp, Lieut.-Colonel A. B. Williams, D.S.O., who returned from Australia on December 8, has been appointed commander of the Royal New Zealand Artillery, Army Headquarters, Wellington, in succession to Lieut.-Colonel G. B.. Parkinson. Major V. G. Jervis, of Army Headquarters, Wellington, will become Deputy Adjutant-General, with the rank of temporary lieut,-colonel, Major H. M, Foster, formerly camp commandant at Burnham, has been appointed General Staff Officer 1, Central Military District, with the rank of temporary lieut.-colonel. Major A. Bongard, M.C., at present area staff officer, Dunedin, has been appointed General Staff Officer 1, Southern Military District, with the rank of temporary lieut.-colonel, Major C, Shuttleworth, N.Z.S.C., has been appointed to command the Military Training School at Narrow Neck, Auckland. Major C. E. Weir, of the Royal New Zealand Artillery, has been appointed to command the 7th Anti-Tank Regiment of the 2nd Echelon. He has been adjutant of the 18th Anti-Aircratt Battery and officer commanding anti-aircraft units at Auckland. Capt. D. M. Robertson has been appointed staff officer, "A" duties, at Army Headquarters, Wellington, with the rank of temporary major.