ISLAND MAGISTRATE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25740, 11 January 1945, Page 4

ISLAND MAGISTRATE

AIRMAN’S APPOINTMENT RECENTLY IN NEW ZEALAND According to an Australian message, Wing Commander J. B. G. Bradley, the Royal New Zealand Air Force pilot who was recently feted by the villagers when he landed on Akyab Island, on the Arakan coast of Burma, will act as magistrate in Akyab. He was formerly a judge in Akyab. _ Wing Commander Bradley is an Englishman, and was educated at Oxford University. During the last war he served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps.. For 22 years he was in the Indian civil service and was in Burma from 1923 onward. He was chief administration officer of the High Court of Rangoon. In 1941 he had six months’ furlough and came to New Zealand, being in Wanganui when the Japanese raided Pearl Harbour. Owing to, the rapid advance of the Japanese, he was unable to return to Rangoon, and took a prominent part in E.P.S. activities in the Wanganui district. Until April, 1942, when a permanent E.P.S. organiser was appointed Wing Commander Bradley was honorary organiser. He remained in Wanganui for a further thrhe or four months, when he was appointed to an administrative post in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and went to Wellington. *