THE AIR FORGE

Evening Star, Issue 23378, 22 September 1939, Page 11

THE AIR FORGE

APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED [Part United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 22. The following appointments, etc., in the Royal (New Zealand) Air Force were gazetted last night:— Flying-officer Greenaway is granted a permanent commission on completing the armament training course and qualifying for symbol A. The following are granted temporary commissions and posted to No. 1 elementary flying school: —In the rank of flying officer—A. W. Burbridge, F. J. Adams, A. W. Britton, L. F. Poore; in the rank of pilot officer—P. C. Lewis, E. F. Holdaway, M. H. M‘Kenzie, N. A. Suttie. Equipment Branch.—Section I.: J. B. Price in the rank of flying officer to air headquarters; H. K. Tait in the rank of pilot officer to air headquarters; Sergeant Owen Wares the same. Section II.: H. T. Grigg for engineering duties. Special appointments for administrative and instructional duties: G. E. Yatee, in the rank of flight lieutenant to the ground training school at Rqngotai as officer commading the training squadron and education officer; S. R. Neal in the rank of flying officer to the ground training school, Rongotai, as navigation officer; P. B. Roebuck, in the rank of flying officer to the No. 1 elementary flying training school, as navigation officer. Lieutenant-colonel A. J. Manson. M. Reserve of Officers, New Zealand Military Forces, to be attached and is posted to air headquarters. Flying-officer R. J. R. H. Makgill, R.A.F.0., is appointed to a temporary commission for the duration of the war in his present rank) Flight-lieutenant C. E. Blaney, M.C., is permitted to resign his coni mission on appointment to a commission in the Royal Australian Air Force Reserve. The following are appointed lo temporary commissions in the equipment branch (section II.) as commissioned technical officers in the iank of flying officer;—Warrant-officer A. T. Giles to be commissioned engineer officer and posted as O.C. Otahuhu Railway Workshop aero shop; Warrant-officer H. H, Smith, to be commissioned engineer officer, and posted as workshops officer at Hobsonvillo depot; Warrant-officer A. E. Pope to be commissioned armament officer, and posted as armament officer to the Trade Test Board at Ohakea depot; Flight-sergeant A. Palmer, to be commissioned engineer officer, and posted as workshops officer at Hobsonville depot; Flight-sergeant N. A. Vear, to be commissioned engineer officer, and posted O.C. Dunedin Railway Workshops aero shop; Flightsergeant A. L. Partelow, to be commissioned signals officer, and posted as signals officer at Blenheim.