A NAVAL APPOINTMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1929, Page 7

A NAVAL APPOINTMENT

CHIEF STAFF OFFICER

AUCKLAND, February 23

The British Admiralty has appoint ed Captain J. S. G. Fraser, D. 5.0., tithe position of chief staff officer t< Commodore Swabey, commanding the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy, and to lie second naval member of the New Zealand Naval Board. He will succoed Captain C. N. Boyne, R.N., whose engagement in New Zea land terminates this year. Captain Fraser will arrive at Wellington by the Ruahine on Wednesday. Captain Fraser, who is forty-five years of age, has been over thirty years in the navy, and as lieutenair he specialised in navigation and hydrography. When the war began he was navigator of the surveying ship, Endeavour, but on October 26, 1914, ho was appointed to the old battleship Revenge, commissioned for bombardment. of the Belgian coast. A year later he joined the staff of the Ailmira’ of the Dover Patrol, to carry out the chart preparation of sailing times ol transports, and a number of other navigation details, and Admiral Bacon in his record of the patrol says ho cannot praise him better than by saying that in all the hundred and one tilings he did he never once made a mistake. Promoted to captain in 1923, Captain Eraser took command of the Dublin at the Cape, and has since commanded tlie cruisers Champion and Canterbury at Portsmouth and in the Atlantic Fleet respectively,