AMERICAN LEGATION

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 154, 2 July 1945, Page 6

AMERICAN LEGATION

NEW POSTS ALLOTTED

DOMINION AND ELSEWHERE

Special. WELLINGTON, this day. Considerable changes have been made in the American Legation in the last few weeks and when the reassignments now under way are completed 14 officers will have taken up new posts. Colonel Harold A. Meyer arrived in New Zealand a few weeks ago to replace Colonel John H. Nankivell as military attache and in the first three wfeeks of duty is reported to have travelled 3000 miles on various missions. Since he graduated from West Point in 1922 Colonel Meyer has been an officer in the United States infantry and has served in the Philippines and elsewhere. In 1944 he .was on active service in North Africa and later was with Headquarters Army Ground Forces in Washington.

Mr Hiram Boucher, who was formerly Consul at Auckland, is* now completing his leave in .the United States before taking up his new duties as Consul-General at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mr. John Fuess, who has been Vice-Consul at Auckland for nearly two years, has been promoted to be Consul there. His successor as Vice-Consul is Mr. James W. Boyd, who was previously at the Legation in Wellington. Mr. Robert Gibbons is now in the United States on leave en route to his new position as Vice-Consul at Bagdad. Mr. T. Eliot Weil, until recently second secretary of Legation at Wellington, has been on temporary duty at the San Francisco Conference and is now having home leave. In a few weeks he will probably be leaving the United States for his new post at Bombay.

Mr. Sydney Greenbie, special assistant to the Minister, and Mrs. Greenbie, will be leaving the Dominion for the United States some time this month, having completed their year's assignment to this country. Mr. William Card Moore, of the Foreign Economic Administration Mission to New Zealand, handling lend-lease affairs, and Mrs. Moore, are also returning to the United States for reassignment after completion of Mr. Moore's duties here. In addition, Mr. Basil Dahl, commercial attache at the Legation, and Mrs. Dahl, will be leaving New Zealand soon and Mr. Dahl will take up duty at Washington, D.C. Mr. Weil's successor, Mn Elvin Seibert, with his wife and two young sons, has just started from the United States for Wellington. Mr. Seibert before the war served at Southampton, Shanghai, Hongkong and Bangkok. In 1940 he was appointed third secretary of Legation at Rio de Janeiro and two years later was promoted second secretary. His wife is the daughter of a former Swedish Minister to Lisbon who later was appointed Minister to the Governments in Exile, London. Mr Osborn S. Watson, who replaces Mr. Dahl, has since 1937 been in Caracas, Venezuela. His wife also is Swedish. Also due to arrive in the country shortly is Mr. Normand W. Redden, who is to be a Vice-Consul. He served in the War Department in 1941-44 and joined the Foreign Service Auxiliary (a wartime division of the service) this year. Wellington will be his first post. A new- agricultural attache, Mr. Gordon C. Laughlin, with his wife and two young sons, is expected to arrive in Wellington at the beginning of August.