NATAL APPOINTMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21099, 5 February 1932, Page 9

NATAL APPOINTMENT.

AUSTRALIAN COMMAND, REAR-ADMIRAL DALGLEISHLONDON. Feb. 3. Eear-Aduiirai R. C. Dalgleish has been appointed Rear-Admiral in command of iht Australian Navy. Hear-Admiral ft. C. Daigleihh, who ■eras promoted to that rank on" April 1, 1931, is the first Australian-born admiral in the British .Navy. He is a son of the late District-Surveyor Dalgleish, vi Dubbo, New South Wales, who made a fortune aut of Broken Hill. After his death his widow, who was a De Lauret, of Goulbum, took her large family to England at the time of the bank smashes. She there married a member of the aiicieot R. C. Bellasis family, and has never been back to Australia since. The eldest son. Alec, married Miss Max-well-Scott, a niece of the Duke of Norfolk. After leaving Oxford he bought Pomeroy station, near GoaJbara, and: reared a famiiv. His eldest son, and the present owner of Pomeroy. is married to the only daughter of Mr. Alec Hays, of Goolangatta. Rear-Admiral Dalgleish is an uncle of Helen Simpson, the novelist, whose "Enter Sir John " was screened in Sydney in April, 1931. Like her mother —wife of E. P. Simpson, financial magnate and one-time champion golfer—she spends most of her time in London.