NEW APPOINTMENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27057, 16 April 1949, Page 6

NEW APPOINTMENTS

ROYAL NEW ZEALAND NAVY RELIEVING COMMANDER FOR BELLONA PA WELLINGTON, Apl. 15. New appointments in the Royal New Zealand Navy were announced on Thursday by the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones. They are:— Commander (E.) E. A. G. Whittle, RN, has been loaned to the Royal New Zealand Navy, and will relieve in the near future Commander (E.) C. R. Navergal, 0.8. E., D.S.C., RN, who is due to revert to the Royal Navy as commander (E.) and director of naval engineering in HMNZS Bellona. Commander R. C. Watkin, RN, has been loaned to the Royal New Zealand Navy and will relieve in due course Commander P, Phipps, D.S.C. and bar, V.R.D., RNZN, as commander HMNZS Bellona. Lieutenant-commander J. D. Keay, V.R.D., RNZN, has been appointed to the Navy Office, Wellington, as naval assistant, reserves and mobilisation. • Lieutenant-commander B. E. Turner, RNZN, will relieve Lieutenant-com-mander Keay as executive officer, HMNZS Philomel. Lieutenant T. W. Stocker, RN, will be in command of HMNZS Kaniere (temporarily) as relief for Lieutenantcommander Turner.

Lieutenant - commander J. F. A. O’Neill, D.S.C., RNZN, has relieved Lieutenant-commander A. C. G. Mars, D. 5.0., D.S.C. and bar, RN, who is due to revert to the Royal Navy as first lieutenant (temporarily) in HMNZS Bellona.

The Government has accepted the nomination of Captain Herbert Lovegrove. RN. as second naval member of the New Zealand Naval Board. He will succeed Captain J. G. Hewitt, D. 5.0., RN, who is due shortly to revert to the Royal Navy. It is expected that Captain Lovegrove will arrive in New Zealand in the Dominion Monarch early in June.