GENERAL FREYBERG

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25301, 7 September 1945, Page 8

GENERAL FREYBERG

START AS A DENTIST EARLY CAREER RECALLED (0.c.) HAMILTON, Thursday The military career of LieutenantGeneral Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., the new Governor-General of New Zealand, has almost completely over(i shadowed the fact that his original proit fession was that of a dentist. After [. leaving Victoria University College, Wellington, he qualified as a dentist, j and after practising in Levin for a short period he came to Hamilton at the age of 22 to work with Mr A. L. Yule early ' S in 1912. e General Frevberg looked after Mr Yule's Morrinsville practice and while u there swam the Waihou River from Te ir Aroha to Paeroa in less than three h hours, a feat that has never been ir equalled. tl The then .Mr Frevberg was a quiet and unassuming voting man who was •- very popular with those who knew him. i- On one occasion he remarked to Mr \ ule .. that he (.lid not think dentistry was his I calling in life and that he thought another sphere of action would prove |S more compelling. It was not long after o this that the career of ■ a soldier i, attracted him and he left New Zealand , r to join Pancho Villa's guerillas in Mexico. He left that country on the 0 outbreak of the first world war to join l " the Naval Brigade in time to take part 0 in the Antwerp landing. i- General Freyberg's success as a s soldier in the intervening years has not !. caused him to forget his okl friends, and when he visited Hamilton two years ago he called on Mr Yule. I" jj comrade in battles n FIELD-MARSHAL'S GREETINGS LONDON, Sept. 5 II "I am delighted to hear that my old friend General Frevberg has been ap- '' pointed Governor-General ol New Zeas land," said Field-Marshal Sir Bernard -1 Montgomery. "He has been my comc rade in many battles. He and his gallant men from New Zealand fought n with me in Africa and Italy. Nobody ■ who served in the Eighth Army will ~ ever forget the New Zealand Division and its gallant commander. "All of us here in Germany who fought in the Eighth Army," f'iekl- ' Marshal Montgomery added, "send c . greetings to General Frevberg. We hope ; that he and Lady Frevberg will have every success and happiness in the great 1 work to which thev have been called." c J MANY CONGRATULATIONS MESSAGES TO LADY FREYBERG (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent) f LONDON, Sept. 5 Telegrams, telephone calls and flowers * have been flooding into the I'ernleaf 1 Club all day long congratulating Lady 1 Frevberg on the appointment ot Lieu-tenant-General Sir Bernard Frevberg as ' Governor-General of Now Zealand. Jhe ■ announcement has given deep pleasure a to New Zealanders here, while it has i been featured by the British press, * which recalls the general's distinguished b career. WATERFRONT WORK NEW HOURS AT MAIN PORTS I ORDER IN FORCE TOMORROW An order issued by the Waterfront Control Commission regarding the new i hours of work on the Auckland, Welli ington, Lyttelton, Port Chalmers and I Dunedin waterfronts will come into force J tomorrow. . Decisions made at a confer- < ence in Wellington last week arc con- * firmed by the order. " • Under the order there will bo no work on Saturday afternoons except on " United States war supply vessels and 1 ships discharging coal when it might I reasonably be expected that the vessel . concerned will finish at 1 p.m. or 5 ' p.m. and permission to work is granted ; bv the waterfront controller. United . States war supply vessels and ships dis- . charging coal will continue to work night shifts and on Sundays, i There will be no night shift, Saturday afternoon and Sunday work on other vessels. Provision is made, however, for vessels carrying specially urgent cargoes, such as timber and cement for building. These ships may, from time to time, be required by the commission to work Sundays and holidays. The order states that on such occasions the waterfront controller shall advise the secretary of the local branch of the New Zealand Waterside Workers' Union of the reasons for working the ships. Night gangs employed on ships before tomorrow will complete the job for which they were engaged. Other ports will work from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday to Sunday, but there will be no night shifts. FREE CABLEGRAMS RELEASED PRISONERS NEW ZEALAND BOYS* PART A free service for the interchange of messages between British military and civilian prisoners freed from the Japanese and their relatives in any part of the British Empire has been instituted by Cable and Wireless, Ltd. Mobile telegraph units known as "Teleom," with personnel including the 22 young New Zealanders who recently left after graduating from the Auckland I training station, are moving in closely behind the occupying forces. Tn conjunction with the military and civilian rescue organisations messages will be taken from resetted persons and transmitted to their relatives as quickly as ; possible. The four New Zealand youths who have gone into Singapore in a cable ship are Ronald De.senna and Basil Chambers, of Auckland, and Michael Fulton and Kolvyn Mealy, of Nelson. They will be engaged in the restoration of the cable service and the transmission of messages. "Cable and Wireless. Ltd., will be diverting other cable ships to the Far East area as there will probably be a : good deal of repair work necessary," : said MrC. T. Halsted, the New Zealand : manager of the company. There was a great possibility or other graduates '■ from the Auckland school going to Singapore. When cable routes via Singapore were restored greatly improved facilities and service between Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand would result. In the United Kingdom 1120 free cablegrams have been received from Malaya and so far 800 replies have been forwarded free. A total of 100,000 free messages each way is expected, as there are 70.000 military and .'IO.OOO civilian prisoners. The messages will be sent to and from all parts of the British Knipire. The delivery of cablegrams destined for New Zealand and the taking of free replies will be in the hands of the Post and Telegraph Department. The department has also instituted a similar additional service between freed New Zealand prisoners and their next-of-kin in the Dominion. BUILDING IN HAMILTON (0.C.) HAMILTON, Thursday During August five applications were approved in Hamilton for the erection of new private dwellings, valued at €0702, and 10. to the value of £1879, were granted for alterations or additions to privnto liousos. Ono npnliontiou for a new building to cost £IOOO was granted and one alteration, valued at £320, was permitted.