OUR NAVAL ADVISER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2185, 25 June 1914, Page 6

OUR NAVAL ADVISER

ARRIVAL HERE

HIS GARfiEft IN THE SERVICE. ; Autipng tJio passengers who arrived by tliis.lVkungairniirnni Sydney yestyr-dflj-'was Captain I*. B. HnH-TboiupsoH, tlio-ne-vr, epiansandm l of 11.51.S- I'bilotti-el (wfiibfa ■ vessel lms. heefi.. taken ov«r by tlio Government), *nd Saval Advisor ty t-feo Government. The 'Appointment is -the first- of tlip Mml made in the TftViuinioKi. Dip-taw Hnll-rTltompson has the genial arid breezy personality fairly ■cpfnmon to men of the sea, and is a : ilian«teitie man of mMiile ngu, tall, clean..cut/wjiU brmizecl features., lie joiirlieyed from '.England by the. Oiterio?, 'and picked'lip the■ Maim.gft.mii in Syd-. .noy, so- thai hi sjicilt i» nieris ti-woi itlmn-.was aisohitely ncocssaa'.v in.A.Hs> trn-lia. .'.... Career Afloat ■ . '■Onpjiaiil Hall-Thompo'n was. Isom in ijia -"joiv fortsf (Hampshire), and,'?!-, tor boi%-. iiducatiCd in a private scboo't, joijied'tho-B.i'ifeinuia (training ship) as a-fflidshipman tt'uen 3li yeara of age. Having put'in his two years' «attotsl.\jp on the old. ship, lie .was, for three j'.parsj/atteehctl t* H.MIS. Australia hi t'ho J&di.ter«nvean, a\i Q\e Hotbiey Gban<tlel: fteeb) on tfo traijimg. brig Pilot,' Whett. )ie went up for Jtfe"'cxaimnatioit as .'HeßtcnajJt ho Wk no fetoer than certificate, eiitrtlitojt jiiin to.-apccinl '-pwmietioai Ho.was thcii apftdttted ltatt-oiiant to the Atom skinj> on :tho Sotifh Afiwrirjan gtjjtJoit, afterv.:,irds retrtraing tg "K«gia»4 ; to tate ■ a sptsc-tel gunnefv tont-se on H.M.JS.. Exfiellcnt at -Island, •AopMtng-tawelf .tvitk credit, lio was ■appotated gunnery ' lieUtottant oil ..-H.M.S. KnWoeiba on'tho Awttalianj : afi-d hispecUt' <jf Ordnance. That apjSaftitfticnt Sβ held from 1960 ta :.1.1p3; Bo waa-nfist apiootalcd guwvefy ■hGH. : t?ijant eft: H..M.S. Majestic and on :.la;r,*i»ry L, 1905, Kits'. pro'»«e<i to the rani of.edtoma.mjler. Theroafter he wa;s for tlit-e© ' .viars:. conileeiecl frith (lio frfohilising. Department of the, Afeii> .aJty. , . ;Atti)ie. end of that term he wcitt •W. sea.ftgftin as cptoraaijder-.ef -H.SI.S.' ■Medea, (M'o'tlHcrraneaH ■•■si:atrsft), an.d . sfftejr t\\% ,yca:f.sVcti)fnci- to : tte, Atoiif* ,a;!iy, for sis ewuths. >Ho wa;s timt $i«:eS ih ehatga of H.M.g. JPreeidont, ■ tlfo 'pnmi ddpjofc. .-jiv tpjtdMj, oflddjifiiig tiiat titijii: was : ji mejiibe-r of tte 4aai..!.fj\% VelaMeef' Oomaiittee. Bi«h fo : f two fflvd'. a- half years-:'-'hs wa.s attaci'h'ed- fe the Adnyiral ,C'on«jjaii-4ing Eβicrvesv -ami.«' Juno. : 3Qi of 'tet .-year ' fr&s .preifiatfid' tibVbe ;a-pQsW.aiitain. What fermHWs? IJe.has'itow., hfeffii Voftiied >* the Ad'nii|dttj' tia' the Keiv. Zealand OJovcrftBii'iit,' ' Tte ( t'eir-m ,pf- has ■ iwJt. Ijeen.""'spocifeall.V:' -Hatiie.U> ■' biit Oai>-' tftin Sailt-Ifwnipjsoii u.ntes.tsu4-s tlftt jt" aji tJifee- years. Ho ■iffdjjvpt Ejife to.siyr M»ij;thuig;'«siiectinfi, friSjiew duties Ofttit Ise.-had ewt* ■.siiijßjfHt t|%; Mtiiifttef-of; iPcfeifco' CHoii',. . %iilfe,' 4'lifcw).' I»:dc(?a, lie c.suld' Jigt say vfrktl • tfcesoi. dutSte'ntsTild , "■!»■■ ■'tintil he ■ knew- ihe. cNfiet intfliiiidns of■ tlfq G-i>w <srAmoufc,re-s|>cctiiig its ecjjoinc of naval deieiifife.. Wliaterpi* they hp n'btilci .{fa'tlio'bitest "■' ;. • ;..■."■ ' Wfci Rum.ouf. .. Captain H-aiMitompsoji wejtt on to :sa : jr that a m'qjsage. liad becsu tflfcv gtapfced .fooni' ifreWiautJo to tho i?fect tte he had stated tlmt the Wcjtt Was a, "ehaotio.. ans, , .',- wftato.yct. t : hat might- fflepn,, :':H ; ft,coald' sa.y that he flev-fir made fln'y saeji tot at tho satoo fei-mo Ic paiß..£ ?«n----j>lin\eHt to the'ferfciHty Of iftiagiiiatioa posseted h.V 'tljcf. Inrush jpressniau;, Captak- toKPh4ji|]Kion wilt "til!? B bis i«sideneo in Mifs, Hal Th«flips«fli ivill Dot mw in- N-eiv Zea tod until Novenj-bcr. .