PERSONAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 291, 13 November 1941, Page 6

PERSONAL.

His Honour Mr -Justice Smith is at present visiting Palmerston' North, having returned from the sessions of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth to deal with a number of matters held over from the last sessions at this centre.

Captain E. L. Bcrthon, D. 5.0.. who was in command ol the tamous destroyer Cossack when she was sunk, was stationed in New Zealand for several years and was highly esteemed, lie was commander at the Dcvonport naval base and returned to .Britain in 1933. Air D. C. Aiellonaid, district manager of the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia, Limited, has entered military camp lor the duration of tile war. Air A .G. Lawson, late manager of the Bank of Australasia, has been appointed acting district manager.

Group-Captain M. Buckley, M.8.E., who recently returned from overseas, is at present staying in Palmerston North, and, with Airs Buckley, is the guest of tlie latter’s parents. Air and Airs W. Smidt, of I'crguson Street. Group-Captain Buckley leaves to-mor-row for Auckland.

According to a Gazette notice Private Paul Richard Freybcrg, who is on active service with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force overseas, has been promoted to the rank ol secondlieutenant. He is the only son ol A!ajor-Gcneral B. C. Freyberg, General O’fficer Commanding the New Zealand Division.

The selection of Air L. G. Lowry, ALP. for Otaki, as the representative of the Government party to visit Great Britain at the invitation of the United Kingdom branch ol the Empire Parliamentary Association, was made at a caucus ol the Parliamentary Labour Party in Wellington yesterday. Two prominent members of Parliament, one Government and one Opposition, have been invited by the association to visit the United Kingdom to inspect the war conditions there, to meet their Parliamentary colleagues at ANestmilister, and to discuss with them questions of mutual interest just as the Parliamentary delegation from Canada is doing in 'the United Kingdom at the present time. Air Lowry is a returned soldier of the Great AN ar and a member of the AA'ar Council. The Opposition member is Mr S. G. Hoi land.

, Evacuated from Japan at the end of September with other British nationals at the request of the British Embassv, Lieut.-Colonel Torcle Lees, Hoy a I Marines (retired), has reached New Zealand, where he intends to live Colonel Lees has a remarkably vaneu service and civilian record and has spent most ol his lile in Japan since the last war. Colonel Lees was 21 years in the Koval Navy and on his retirement held* his present rank in the Koval Marines. He . took part in Shaekleton's Antarctic Expedition in 1914-16 and in 1917 lie was seconded to the Royal Air Force. Jlc was the first British officer to make a parachute landing and conducted research in this branch. At the end of the war he went to the East to instruct in parachute work in tiie Japanese naval air force, holding the rank of lieutenantcommander in the Imperial Japanese Navy. After about IS months in tins capacity Colonel Lees returned to civilian litc but remained in Japan as teacher of English in Japanese high schools and universities. Ton years ago ho married a Japanese wife who, with their family, has accompanied him to New Zealand.