D.S.O. AWARDED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24879, 28 April 1944, Page 2

D.S.O. AWARDED

AUCKLAND AIRMAN MANY FLIGHTS COMPLETED Advice has been received bv -Mr. and Mrs. .M. H. .Miller, of 301 Tainaki Drive, Koiiituararna, that their youngest son, S(iuadron-Leader Denis Miller, D.I •y-i lias been awarded the Distinguished Service Order. Squadron-Leader .Miller was awarded the D.F.C. in 1942 after numerous operations, including seven successful mine-laying missions _ and participation in combined operations dining the commando raid on \ aagso, where he laid a smokescreen from 70 feet. Me also took part in the famous low-level raid against the Renault works in Paris. Squadron-Leader Miller has now completed his second tour of operations. Recently he was mentioned as having been in the March 1000-bomber raid on Stuttgart and he has also taken his squadron over Berlin, as well as many other Continental targets. SquadronLender Miller is a brother of Captain Robin Miller, who is now doing publicitv work in Great Britain after having been an official war correspondent with the Second N.Z.E.F. in the Middle East. MILITARY MEDALS former prisoners of war (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday Advice that the King has approved the award of the Military Medal to two members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East has been received by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones. They are: Driver Edward John Allen Phelan (Mr. F. A. Phelan, Auckland, father), and Driver Earle Reginald Silverwood. of Hastings. Drivers Phelan and SilverwoiDd, who are members of the same unit, were pasted missing in Greece on June 17. 1941, and were later officially reported prisoners of war. In January of this year advice was received that they were safe in the United Kingdom. In civil life Driver Phelan, who is 2(5, was a motor driver, and he went overseas with the First Echelon. Driver Silverwood is 29, and was a panelbeator employed in Wellington. He also sailed with the First Echelon.

SLY GROG CHARGES MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT INFORMATIONS DISMISSED Pleas of not guilty were entered by George Stanley Cartman. a quartercaste Maori (Mr. Dickson), when he appeared before Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., yesterday, charged with selling liquor without a licence, keeping liquor for sale and aiding in supplying liquor to a native. A staff-sergeant attached to the United States Army gave evidence that on the night of April 15 while on military police duty he went to a cottage at Warkworth. A constable had given him a £1 note and asked him to go to the cottage and buy a bottle of wine. He gave the money t.o a man who came to the door and he was given a bottle of wine. When witness, the constable and an army officer later visited the cottage witness could not say that the man there then was the person who sold him the wine, but he was about the same height as accused. Fvidence was given of the discovery of 110 bottles of wine in cartons among scrub on the section where the cottage stood, and of servicemen being seen with bottles of wine after leaving the property. The magistrate stated that the sergeant had gone to the cottage' for the express purpose of getting evidence of tlie sale of some liquor. Somebody had let the brief down and there might have been a little more imaginative assistance given the police in the circumstances. If some provision was to be made for the identification of the person who sold the wine even a sehoojehild would have taken a torch. The informations were dismissed. DEGREE FOR MR. ERASER LONDON, April 20 Cambridge Universitv is arranging to confer the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the lU. Hon. I'. Fraser, and the Prime Minister of Australia. Mr. J. Curtin. ORAKEI MAORI HOUSES The question of the four dilapidated M aori houses near Coat.es Avenue, Orakei, was raised again at the City Council's meeting last night by the chairman of the council's Health Committee, Mr. F. N. Ambler, who asked whether anything further had been done toward their removal. The Mayor, Mr. J. A. C. Allnm, replied that the acting-town clerk had lately written again to the Government. asking what action was being taken. COLLAPSE IN STREET An elderly man. Mi". Edward Llewelyn Phillips, single, aged 59, of Collingwood Street, Ponsonby, collapsed and died at the corner of Ponsonby and Franklin Roads last night. He was a returned soldier and had been in hospital with asthma until a few weeks ago.