SERVICE NOTES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20644, 16 February 1929, Page 20

SERVICE NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, January 5. The following appointments have been made by the Admiralty:— Lieutenant-commander J. R. Stemiouse, D. 5.0., 0.8. E., D.S.C., R.D, RJsT.R to Pangbourne (December 29). Lieutenant-commander R. Hunter-Blair to Laburnum (February 1). Seniority of Lieutenant (retired) W. G. M. Buckley adjusted to July 1, 1925. The following appointments in the Royal Air Force are notified;—

E. Matheson, flying officer, to No. 101 Squadron, Bircham Newton (November 14). . Squadron-leader K. R. Park, M.C., D.F.C., to‘ be wing-commander. ARMY’S FIRST RUGBY GAME. The Army played their first Rugby game of the season against the Harlequins at Portsmouth last Saturday, and won by a goal and three tries {l4 points) to a goal and a try (eight points) One of the outstanding players for the Army was Second-lieutenant J. R, Page, >f the New Zealand Forces. Page is a Sandhurst cadet, and is attached to the Ist Battalion the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at Blaekdown, Aldershot Command.

The Times correspondent, writing of the game, says: —“At forward the Harh quins held their own excepting in getting and heeling the ball, and once the ball came out there was always a marked superiority on the Army side. The player chiefly responsible for that was J. R, Page, a newcomer to the Army team, whose presence marked a welcome innovation for he played as a representative of the New Zealand Forces. Though small and of slight build, Page is a player of remarkable skill and intelligence. It was generally the way in which he broke through the opposing defence that led to a try being scored.”

ARMY COUNCIL LUNCHEON Officers of the Dominions military forces in this country were entertained at luncheon this week by the Army Council, at the Army and Navy Club. The ist-w Zealand officers present were Major A. H. Mead, D.S.O. (New Zealand Staff Corps) and Major W. G. Stevens i Royal New Zealand Artillery). The former has recently graduated from the Staff College, Camberley, and the latter has recently completed a year’s study at the Imperial Defence College. Others at the luncheon were: —Fieldmarshal Sir George Milne (Colonel- commandant, R.A., Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and First Military member of the Army Council), Sir Herbert Greedy (Permanent Under-secretary of State for War, and Secretary of the Army Council), Brigadier J. Sutherland Brown and Major L, C. Goodeve (Canadian Military Forces), Lieutenant-colonel E, C. P. Plant, Major G. C. Rowe, Major B. J. Milford, Major E. A. Wilson, and Captain F. L. Coldwell-Smith (Australian Staff Corps), Mr F. G. Sheddon (Austra lian Department of Defence), Vlejorgeneral J R. E. Charles (late R E., Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, War Office), Major-general EL. H. S. Knox (Director of Military framing, War Office), Major-general C, Bon-ham-Carter (Director ot Staff Duties, War Office), Colonel C. G. Liddell, Lieu-tenant-colonel L. Carr, Lieutenant-colonel T. J. Hutton, Major L. S. Lloyd, Captain R. M. Hall, Sir Francis Osborne, Mr F, G. C. Paterson, and Mr A. J. Newiing