REPORTED MISSING

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24275, 16 May 1942, Page 6

REPORTED MISSING

SUBMARINE OFFICER SIR S. ALLEN'S SON Advice has been received that the Admiralty reports Lieutenant P. R. H. Allen, R.N., to be missing, with his submarine overdue, in the Mediterranean. Lieutenant Allen is the only son of Colonel Sir Stephen Allen, K.8.E., C.M.G., D.5.0., and Lady Allen, of Morrinsville. Lieutenant Allen was educated at King's Preparatory School and Wanganui Collegiate School. While at the latter he won the school's most noted award, the Marshall Memorial Exhibition. He entered the Royal Navy nine months before the outbreak of war and in the passing outexaminations from H.M.S. Vindictive he was top of his time with the highest aggregate of marks in three subjects and firstclass passes in all.

Lieutenant Allen served as a midshipman in H.M. ships Norfolk and Berwick and was later transferred to H.M. destroyer Vanessa and then to H.M.S. Nelson. After that he took shore courses, at which lie secured firstclass passes in all .subjects, obtaining the Admiralty's maximum seniority and other awards As a sub-lieutenant he volunteered for submarine service and took the special course, leaving on its completion for Malta. He received his promotion and was gazetted lieutenant as from January 1 last after reaching the age of 20. While awaiting the appointment to the submarine which is now reported overdue he served in a Polish submarine and later acted as berthing control officer at Malta. THE MERCHANT NAVY SPECIAL BURIAL PLOT The first interment to be made in the mariners' plot set apart in the Waikumete Cemetery for members of the Merchant Navy who die while in port at Auckland will take place today. The funeral will be that of a ship's radio operator, Mr. J. D. Digweed, who died in the Auckland Hospital on Thursday following a fall from a gangway on to one of the wharves the previous day. Services will be conducted in the chape] of the Flying Angel .Missions to Seamen and at the graveside by the mission chaplain, the Rev. H. K. Vickery. STIPENDS OF CLERGY RECENT INCREASES MADE Something lias been , done in the Auckland Anglican Diocese to increase tiio stipends of parochial clergy above the level of £6 a week which was recently declared by the Bishop of Waikato, the Rt. Rev. C. A. Oherrington. to be wholly inadequate for a man with a family. In reply to an inquiry yesterday, the Bishop of Auckland, the Rt. Rev. W. J. Simkin, said that at itf last session the Diocesan Synod had requested vestries to increase stipends to at least £385 in parishes and £33? in parochial districts. The former minima had been £350 and £3OO re spectively. Bishop Simkin added that the synod had also conducted an inquiry into existing arrangements for meeting the cost of country vicars' cars and their upkeep. No direct action had been taken, but the resolution setting a higher staiidard for stipends naturally had a bearing on the matter. It was stated at the Diocesan office that stipends in 28 out of the 50 parishes and parochial districts in the diocese had been increased by 10 per cent or less, and it was expected that more parishes would do this in the near future.