MILITARY COMMAND
RUMOURS OFFICIALLY DENIED Rumours have gained currency that Major-General R. Young. General Officer Commanding the New Zealand Forces, is to retire this year in order to become Commissioner of Police, and that Brigadier-General M. M. Gardner, Officer Commanding the Southern Command. will be General Young’s successor. The matter was referred last night to the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward), who gave the suggestions an emphatic denial. “There is nothing in them: .they are merely idle rumours,” he said.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 265, 5 August 1929, Page 10
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82MILITARY COMMAND Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 265, 5 August 1929, Page 10
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