ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
| DIRECTOR TO RETIRE Captain J. R. Middleton, D.S-O, director of Naval Reserves in New Zealand, will retire from that P o^ next month, and will be relieved Captain Edwin G. Morris, R.N. (retired), who will arrive from Englan shortly. . . Captain Middleton took up his present position when the Volunteer Reserve was first establish in New Zealand in 1926. .'He did the early recruiting and organising, and to-day there are 600 men in tra ing, and many more haveP Pa s; Let * t • with their training finished. Cap Middleton is now in Otago paying final visit of inspection to divis.. of the reserve there. He will f j in Christchureh on Monday n ®*,'. c ,-_ will inspect the Canterbury Divis that evening. The new director, C_ptain Mo" *. has seen long service in the Navy,, tiring a short while ago after o for some time on the China Station.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20997, 27 October 1933, Page 18
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