N.Z. NAVAL OFFICERS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16429, 24 January 1919, Page 5

N.Z. NAVAL OFFICERS.

| AN ASSOCIATION FORMED. | (FROM OTTH OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, December 3. A provisional meeting of New holding commissions m the Isayu , wm hlld at Southampton laet when U waa decided to form a New Zealand Naval Officers' Association. The following were elected as provisional officers_ Patron, The Governor-General of /.Mf land; hon. president, the Right Hon. W. F. Mas&ev; hon. vice-prefiidonts, Sir Josepn Ward, the Minister of Marine, the Minister of Defence, and the High Commissioner for New Zealand; president .. mander W. Earnshaw. R.N. (Wellington), vice-presidents, Eng.-Lieut. H. H. Wilson, R.N. (Mcegiel), Eng.-Sub-Lieut. C. J- Dr .®£* itt, R.N.R., Lieut. C. Harmon Smith, R.k.V.R.; hon. secretary °nd Lieut. J. C. Hewson, B.N.V.R. (Auck and) committee Lieuts. "WV J. C° nnol S * : n > land), A. V. Choyce, A. J. Dean (Dunedin), S. P. Simpaon (Chriatchurdh), F. (Pukekohe) all R.N.VJt., Eng.-Sub-Li«ute. R. McLean, F. O. Waymouth, R.^-«. For the present th» headquarters of tne Association will he a * Southampton, residence of Lieut. J. C. Hewson. an demobilisation it will be transferredto iew Zealand to a place to be. decided upon- - i