NEW NAVAL OFFICERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 28, 2 August 1934, Page 19

NEW NAVAL OFFICERS

ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' AUCKLAND, August 1. Now. officers for tho New Zealand Division of the-Royal Navy arrived at Auckland by tho Rangitanp today. They are Captain t. Vaughan Morgan, who will relieve Captain C. SLnclaij Thomson as second naval member of the Naval Board at Wellington; Mr. E. F. S. Fisher, naval stores officer, and Mr. G. McCloghrie, a member of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors. Tho two last-named will be attached to the Devonport Naval Base for four years. Mr. Fisher will bo in charge of stores 'at the Devonport Base, a post which will assume considerable importance when the Government's plan for expanding.naval activities takes definite shape. He has previously served in. South Africa and Ceylon. .

Mr. MeGloghrie will be in chargo of the engineering, constructional, and refitting activities at the base. The Royal Corps of Naval Constructors, to whkjj Mr. MeGloghrie belongs, is responsible for designing and building most of the ships of the Royal Navy. Mr. MeGloghrie has lately been ongaged on submarine designing, but before that he was associated with the building of two of the latest class of sloops, sister ships to the Leith, which will arrive on the New Zealand station in October.

Mr. MeGloghrie said that the new sloops were an improvement on the ships of the Rochester class, which themselves had proved highly successful. . .