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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 23, 1 December 1939, Page 4

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Wing Commander Keith Caldwell, M.C., D.F.C. and bar, one of New Zealand’s air aces during the last war, has been appointed to command the Air Force School at Blenheim and will take over his new duties on December 7. Squadron Leader T. R. Anderson, M.C., has been appointed officer in charge of administration at Wigram, the first appointment of its kind in New Zealand. He has seen service with the army in India. Major J. Leggatt, formerly a master ate the Hastings Boys’ High School, is with the Rifle Battalion at Trentham * Camp. Major D. F. Leckie, a schoolmaster, of Invercargill, now with the 2nd New Zealand Division, was a member of the New Zealand Contingent which attended the Coronation of George vi. Major E. Reeves, M.C., of Eric Reeves and Co., Wellington, has been appointed acting area staff officer of No. 5 Wellington Military District. Flight-Lieut. J. Shanly, at present adjutant at Wigram, will become adjutant at Blenheim early in December. Capt. A. C. Trousdale,;-who served with the Canadian Forces in the last war, is undergoing a course at the District School of Instruction, Narrow Neck. Capt. Rob Roy McGregor, who was company commander of the Auckland Scottish Regiment, and his second in command, Lieut. H, R. Anderson, are undergoing a _ refresher course at Narrow Neck and will join the 2nd Echelon. Capt. A. L. G. Campbell, who served with the Highland Light Infantry in India and later took up farming in the Nelson district, has joined the Canterbury-Otago Infantry Battalion at Burnham. He is a son of Colonel Campbell, formerly Auditor-General. Lieut. Noel Gard’ner, son of Colonel Murray Gard’ner of Christchurch, is now with the 7th Field Co., New Zealand Engineers, at Narrow Neck. Lieut. Thomas Thornton, of the Income Tax Department, is Quartermaster of the 22nd Wellington Rifle Battalion at Trentham Camp. Lieut. R. L. Bond, formerly of the Otago Scottish and the Sydney Scottish Regiments, who came from Australia to take up an important post with Dunedin Breweries, has joined the 2nd. New Zealand Division. Neil Louisson, a director of Fairbairn Wright, Ltd., Auckland, is with the Advanced Training Battalion . at Trentham. Ian Ross, well known in Dunedin, has ~ joined the Royal New Zealand a ys Force and has gone into onerigy' Levin. 5 C. M. Bennett, son of Bishop Bennett, and H. K. Négata, son of Sir Apirana Négata, M.P., have gone into training ‘with the advanced unit of the Maori Battalion. They are both announcers at 2YA,