OFFICERS AND N.C.O.S

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1942, Page 6

OFFICERS AND N.C.O.S

Party Returning to N.Z.

The Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones) announced last night that 57 officers and 62 non-commission-ed officers of all arms from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East, including some senior officers, were on their way to New Zealand and would be employed at schools of instruction and in units where their recent experience of modern war would be of the greatest value in the defence of the country.

with the temporary rank of Brigadier, in place of Brigadier L. G. Goss, who is appointed Liaison Officer for special duties in connection with operations in the Anzac Area.

Colonel E. T. Rowllings relinquishes command of an infantry brigade in New Zealand and is appointed temporarily to command the Southern District, with the temporary rank of Brigadier.

Colonel R. S. Park is appointed New Zealand Army Representative on the Joint Planning Staff. London, in addition to his present duties as Army Liaison Officer, London, and is granted the temporary arnk of Brigadier. He will be assisted in his liaison duties by Lieutenant-Colonel R. S. Halliwell from the Quartermaster-General's branch, Army Headquarters.

Colonel A. B. Williams, D.5.0., is granted the temporary rank of Brigadier and appointed Army representative on the Combined British and American Staff at Washington.

Commenting on the appointments of Army representatives abroad, Mr. Jones said they were made to give New Zealand direct Army representation in London, Washington, and Australia, where matters of high strategy would be discussed. It was one of the steps towards complete co-operation and co-ordination in the Allied conduct of the war a.= a whole.