FOURTH SEA LORD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21117, 26 February 1932, Page 9

FOURTH SEA LORD.

KEAU-ADMIRAL BLAKE.

APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCED. SERVICE IN NEW ZEALAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received February 2G, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 05. Bear-Admiral Geoffrey Blake becomes the new Fourth Sea, Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport, succeeding ViceAdmiral Lionel Preston, from September 20.

Bear-Admiral Geoffrey Blake, D.5.0., left Auckland yesterday on the cruiser Diomede for Sydney to represent the New Zealand Government at the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He is to relinquish his post as commodore in command of (he New Zealand division of the Royal Navy in April.

Rear-Admiral Blake lias been commodore in New Zealand since early in September, 1929, when lie took over command of the Dunedin at Wellington from Commodore G. 'J'. C. P. Swabny, the Diomede at that time being in England refitting. Since then the Dunedin has gone to England for the same purpose. In March, 1931, Commodore Blake, as he then was, was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral. He will leave New Zealand for England, via Vancouver, by the Royal Mail liner Aorangi, which will leave Auckland on May 3. He is to be succeeded bv Capfain Fischer BurgessWatson. D.5.0., who will arrive at Wellington from London by the liner Itangitata on April 14.