FOR VETERANS’ HOME
SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTED MAJOR J. A. WALLINGFORD Major J. A. Wallingford, M.C., has been appointed superintendent of the Veterans’ Home, Mount Albert. ITe succeeds Major C. H. Nutsford, who lias retired. Up to the time of his retirment in August, 1927, Major Wallingford had a record of 42 years’ distinguished service with the Imperial and New Zealand Military Forces. He went through a course at the Musketry School at Hythe, and he was later an instructor there for same time. Recognsied as a master in the-art of rifle instruction, Major Wallingford won the rifle shooting championship of the British Army six times within nine years. In 1911 Major Wallingford was transferred to the New Zealand Forces and during the war he went to Gallic poli as a machine-gun officer. In addition to the work of organisation and supervision he found time to do considerable rifle shooting on his own account. The new superintendent specialised in musketry instruction on his arrival in Auckland, although lie held other appointments on the staff of the Northern Command.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 602, 2 March 1929, Page 13
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176FOR VETERANS’ HOME Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 602, 2 March 1929, Page 13
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