NAVAL CADETS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8

NAVAL CADETS

CAREERS AS OFFICERS

SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES

Results of the 1944 entrance examinations for cadetships in 4he Royal" New Zealand Navy were announced .today by the Minister of Defence (Mr. Jones). The successful candidates for executive branch cadetships are Neil D. Anderson, son of Mr. E. D. Anderson, of Hastings; Berkeley F. Goddard, son of Mr. W. F. Goddard, of Palmeriston North, and John D. Gresson, son of Mr. K. M. Gresson, of Christchurch. These boys will be offered careers as officers and will be entered as naval cadets and proceed to England for training, in the first instance: at the Royal Naval College, Eaton, and afterwards in the ships of the Royal Navy. Two midshipmen of the Royal New Zealand Navy, who were entered as cadets in 1942, were in the cruiser H.M.S. Jamaica when that ship took part in the successful engagement with the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst. During their career^as midshipmen, R.N.Z.N., the 1944 cadets ■ will undergo similar training in. battleships and cruisers of the Royal Navy. Afterwards they will be appointed to ships of the Royal' New Zealand Navy. ■ FORMER CADETS' PROGRESS. The Minister also stated that he had received with pleasure from the Admiralty reports of the progress and training of the four New Zealand officers who left the Dominion as naval cadets in 1941. Now promoted to acting sub-lieutenant, R.N.Z.N., these officers are undergoing courses of training in for the rank of lieutenant. In the courses so far completed, John M. Armstrong, Wellington, has gained first' class certificates in gunnery, torpedo, seamanship, and air; Edward C. Thome, also of Wellington, has obtained first-class certificates in navigation and torpedo and a second-class certificate in seamanship; and Maxson C. McDowell, Oamaru, has obtai^d, first-class certificates in navigation and anti-sub-marine and second-class certificates in seamanship and air. Midshipman (E) William H. Peterson, Wellington, has been promoted to acting sub-lieuten-ant (E) and is at present continuing his training at the Royal Navy Engineering College, Keyham. It was gratifying, said the Minister, to hear that these, the first direct entry permanent officers of the Royal New Zealand ~ Navy, were doing so well in. their training. In classes comprising, officers of the Royal Navy and Dominion Navies, Armstrong had" been placed first in order of merit in gunnery and Thome first in navigation. It has also been possible to fill one of the vacancies for probationary acting paymaster sub-lieutenant, Royal New Zealand Navy, and the candidate selected is Robert G. Adams, A.R.A.N.Z., of Wellington. He also will be entered in the Royal New Zealand Navy for permanent service and will be sent to England for training in ships of the Royal Navy.