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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 39, 21 March 1940, Page 4

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Lieut-Colonel J. E. Anderson, M.C., formerly . public works engineer at Christchurch, has been appointed officer commanding the railway. construction group of the 2nd New Zealand Division. Lieut-Colonel A. S. Wilder, D.S.O., M.C., of Hawke’s Bay, has been appointed to command the 25th Wellington Battalion, 3rd Echelon. He served with the Wellington Mounted Rifles on Gallipoli and in Egypt and Palestine during the last war. Major A. Bongard, M.C., has been appointed G.S.O., 1st Grade, Southern Military District, and promoted to the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. Major A. C. W. Mantell-Harding, solicitor, of Wellington, is teériporary second-in-command of the 25th VW/ellington Battalion, 3rd Echelon. Major D. E, Bremner, M.C., has been’ appointed Commandant of the Northern Military School of Instruction, NAO, Neck. Captain A. H. L, Sugden has boda appointed Commandant of thé Trentham Army School of Instruction in succession, to Major J. I. Brooke.. 3 as Captain J. G. Elliott, of Eltham, "has been appointed to command the Forestry Company, 2nd New. Zealand Division. + Lieutenant G. Colledge, of Auckland, is with the 25th Wellington Battalion. He is a well-known singer, and has been closely associated with the Sppertory. movement. Second-Lieutenant P. L. Bennett, M.C, has been appointed Quartermaster of the 25th Wellington Battalion. He served with the Canterbury Regiment in the last. war. H. K. Brainsby, of Whangarei, who has been training at Trentham, has been granted his commission. He is: a former New Zealand eras Gate. ear begsicy | tive. DD: £ Ra Molétiay of Dunatize wis captained the New Zealand cricket team against Sir Julien’ Cahn’s team, and | toured England with. the New Zonlage | team, has enlisted.