LONDON POLICE

Southland Times, Issue 25305, 7 June 1935, Page 7

LONDON POLICE

NEW COMMISSIONER APPOINTMENT OF SIR PHILIP GAME A POPULAR CHOICE (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, June 5. Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game, a former Governor of New South Wales, succeeds Air Marshal Lord Trenchard as Commissioner of Metropolitan Police. ... The newspapers commend Sir Philip Game’s appointment, recalling his war career and his conflict with Mr Lang, a former Premier of New South Wales. The Times says that Sir Philip Game brings his own qualifications to the post. As Governor of New South Wales he showed qualities of tact and firmness which the police and die public have come to expect- in the chief administrator of Scotland Yard. The Daily Express says it is understood that Lord Trenchard will return to the Air Force to take control oi expansion and reorganization. Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game, with Lord Trenchard. commander of the Air Forces In 1917. built the Royal Air Force up to a high state of efficiency. They were brilliant associates, the one the man of vision and illimitable ideas, the other, Sir Philip Game, the outstanding executive—architect and builder. Sir Philip’s share in that work was recognized by promotion from the rank of brigadier (flying corps headquarters, in 1916) to that of major-general. In the first honours list after the armistice he was made a Commander of the Bath. As Direct or of Training and Organization alter the war he and fiord Trenchard succeeded in forming the basis of what is recognized as a model organization. He has his own pilot certificate. He reorganized the Indian R.A.F.. and his work was as successful as it had been in France and Britain, and on returning to England he went on the Air Council and was created Air Vice-Marshal. He re ceived his K.C.B. in 1924. From 1930 to early in 1935 he was Governor of New South Wales.