COMMISSIONS WON

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24102, 22 October 1941, Page 9

COMMISSIONS WON

YACHTSMAN IN NAVY Advice has been received by Mr. L. A. Mallitte, of 10 Golf Road, Epsom, that his younger son, John Mallitte, has been appointed to a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Imperial) under Scheme B for entry into the Navy. Sub-Lieutenant Mallitte was educated at the Newmarket School and the Auckland Grammar School and at the time of his acceptance for training in the Navy was a student at the Auckland Teachers' Training College.

Alter receiving instruction at the shore establishment, H.M.S. Ganges, lie spent four and a-half months at sea in a new destroyer, taking part in the chase after the Bismarck and in the Lofoten raid, as well as seeing service in the Mediterranean. He is a wellknown Auckland yachtsman and sailed his own 18-foeter, the Mararoa. FLEET AIR ARM AUCKLANDER PR OMOTED Advice that her son, Leonard H. Pratt, has been promoted to the rank of sub-lieutenant iti the Fleet Air Arm lias been received by Mrs. C. W. Pratt, of 2 Kversleigh Road, Takapuna. Prior 1o his enlistment with the air arm, Sub-Lieutenant Pratt, who is 21, was a member of the clerical staff of the H krali). He left New Zealand in October of last year to undergo training in England. He was later transferred to Canada for advanced training, in company with Sub-Lieu-tenant. J. L. Nicholls", whose promotion was announced yesterday, and SubLieutenant I). Havter, both former members of the Herald staff.