NAVAL SECRETARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26637, 6 December 1947, Page 8

NAVAL SECRETARY

CAPTAIN G. T. MILLETT APPOINTED ARRIVAL THIS MONTH P.A. WELLINGTON, Dec. 5. The Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, announced to-day that Acting Captain (S) G. T. Millett, Royal Navy, has been appointed to relieve Acting Captain (S) W. J. G. Prophit, 0.8. E., Royal Navy, as navhl secretary. Captain Millett is due to arrive at Wellington in the Rimutaka on December 2£ Captain Millett entered the Royal Navy in 1927. His service has been mainly in ships of the Home and Mediterranean Fleets. He was secretary to Admiral Sir George Edward-Collins from 1936 to 1943, being with him in a cruiser squadron in northern waters for the first two years of the war and later when he was Flag Officer, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean approaches. Captain Millett then served for a year as secretary to the Commodore at the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, and from 1945 to 1947 was supply officer of the seagoing training cruiser for naval cadets. H.M.S. Frobisher. Captain Prophit joined the Royal Navy in May, 1914, as a naval cadet, and first went to sea early in 1917, since when hfe has seen service in all parts of the world. He also served for' two years at the Admiralty with Vice-admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake. Altogether he has spent over nine years in New Zealand, having served in H.M.S. Chatham and H.M.S. Dunedin from 1923 to 1926, the Dunedin and Diomede from 1929 to 1932, and in his current appointment since May, 1944. Captain Prophit is returning to the United Kingdom for reversion to the Royal Navy, but it is understood that he intends to retire from the Royal Navy in about a year or two and return to New Zealand to settle.