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REAR-ADMIRAL WATSON By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, April 29. Rear-Admiral F. Burges Watson, who on Friday relinquished the command of the New Zealand naval station, will leave to-night for Sydney, en route for South Africa and England. His active career in the Navy is over. He intends to live in the South of England, but remarked to-day that he hoped to return to New Zealand with his wife, and probably live here for two or three years. In a farewell message to the officers and men, he said the last three years had be"en the happiest of his 35 years’ service.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20095, 30 April 1935, Page 8
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103ON RETIRED LIST Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20095, 30 April 1935, Page 8
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