N.Z. CADET RATINGS

Evening Star, Issue 24281, 24 August 1942, Page 4

N.Z. CADET RATINGS

VISIT FROM MR JORDAN LONDON, August 21. Tlio High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr W. J. Jordan, inspecting New Zealand cadet ratings under instruction on H.M.S. King Alfred, met Telegraphist Iven Mitchell, of Christchurch, and Motor Mechanic D f E. W. Gillies, of Wellington, both of whom had just returned from Dieppe. Both were fit and well, and told Mr Jordan they were very pleased at the chance to participate in the operation. Mr Jordan also met Paymaster-lieutenant-commander G. T. Ashby, who recently returned after service on the New Zealand station. He is now instructing on H.M.S. King Alfred. Cadet Hating A. H. B. Holland, of Christchurch, commanded a launch in which Mr Jordan went to sea and saw the cadets receiving navigation instruction. The following received sub-lieuten-ants’ commissions on the day of Mr Jordan’s visit;—W. M. Armstrong (Auckland), D. H. Scott (Wellington), G. J. Plank (Christchurch), and G. G. Thomson (Port Chalmers). Mr Jordan also had a lengthy talk with RearAdmiral H. E. Horan, who was commodore of the New Zealand station at the outbreak of war. The cadets on H.M.S. King Alfred include J. W. Tattersfield* N. E. Pollard, J. C. Mitchell, H. T. Mace, J. G. Milliner, C. H. Shakespeare, B. M. Wallace, (R. Campbell, and J. Coote (Auckland), F. H. Deverell, T. Wiren, j. A. Livingstone, D. F. Watts, M. Bannister, and P. Hindle (Wellington), F. T. M. Cheshire, E. M. R. Lassen, and J. S. Rnmbold (Christchurch), G. D. (Burton (Lower Hutt), A. G. Anderson, J. Y. Bond, L. C. Batchelor, , and A. R. Pritchard (Dunedin), W. Henderson (Napier). C. P. Barker and T. H. N. White (Hawke’s Bay), I, M. Lyons (Hastings), A. H. Good (Hawera), J. P. May (Wanganui), L. Walton and [R. C. Hannon (Oamaru), M. E. Wycherley and C. W. Holmes (Palmerston North). R. A. Mitford and Burgess (Te Aroha), H. A. Morton (Timaru), ,K. F. Cochran (Marion), J. M. Fraser (Port Chalmers), C. Wyeth (Invercargill), T. A, Larsen (Ohaknne), M. A. Ballinger (Rangiahua), and A. Miles (Karioi).