DEFENCE APPOINTMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 21820, 8 September 1934, Page 18

DEFENCE APPOINTMENTS

COASTAL DEFENCE EXPERTS COMING [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 7. The War Office has advised the Government of the selection of Captain A. J. Ednev and Quartermastersergeant P. Shilloto to come to New Zealand on loan for service in technical work for the Defence Department. Both officers will arrive in New Zealand toward the end of the year. It was recently announced by the Minister of .Defence that the Government had decided to obtain on loan from the War Office the services of an officer of the lloyal Engineers and of a warrant officer to take in hand the technical wbrk involved in modernising and extending the coast defences of the dominion. Mr Cobbe stated to-day that, in accordance -with the recommendation by the War Office, it was arranged that Captain Edney should make a stay of three weeks at Singapore en route to New Zealand to study the work being done there. It was considered that the knowledge and experience gained by Captain Edney at Singapore would be of great value to New Zealand when he came to perform the special duties to be assigned him in the dominion. The announcement that Captain D. T. Maxwell, of the Staff Corps of the New Zealand Permanent Forces, has been selected to undergo a two years’ course at Camberley Staff College was made to-day. The Minister of Defence expects that Captain Maxwell will leave New Zealand in November. The Defence Department has at present one officer at Camberley, Captain C. H. Clifton, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, who will be completing his term there at the end of the year.