SAW LONG-RANGE GUNS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 218, 10 June 1943, Page 5

SAW LONG-RANGE GUNS

Mr. Jones’s Visit To Dover (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright) (Special correspondent.) (Received June 9, 10.55 pjm.) LOiNDOIt, June 8. The New 'Zealand Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones, glimpsed' France through a haze when he visited the Dover defences and saw the big guns which frequently engage in long-range duels with the German?. One gun fired several practice rounds, enabling Mr. Jones to watch the speed and efficiency with which they are manned and handled. The Minister met Warrant Officer D.. Greenslade, Dunedin, who was awarded the MjB.E. for efficiency while serving with a battery. Mr. Jones bohrded a motor torpedo-boat commanded by SubLieutenant K. H. Mackenzie: Christchurch, and with Lieutenant O. V. Fisher, Auckland) iSubfffieutenants I. G. Wilson, Christchurch, and A. H. Newton, Wellington, visited a motor-boat base where the crews are always ready to dash out into the Channel at a moments notice. ~ . . . The following day Mr. Jones visited H.M.S. King Alfred, where some 900 members of the R.N.Z.N.V.R. have been commissioned. He called at the Australian and New Zealand reception centre where airmen go on arrival from -Australia New Zealand and Canada, and talked with 130 New Zealanders who recently arrived. He paid a special visit to the famous Biggin Hill station to meet Wing Commander Alan Deere, D. 5.0., D.F.C. and Bar. Squadron Leader J. Clouston, Wellington, and Flight Lieutenant J. Ohecketts, Invercargill.