NEW YEAR HONOURS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22470, 4 January 1943, Page 4

NEW YEAR HONOURS

Biographical Sketches

Details of the careers of four recipients of New Year Honours, Military Division, are as follow:

Brigadier H. E. Avery, C.B.E.

Brigadier Avery, C.M.G., D. 5.0., a former professional soldier, has been attached to the headquarters staff in Wellington since 1940. He was born in 1885 and educated at Wellington College. He was a well-known footballer, representing the Wellington Province. On the establishment of the New Zealand Staff Corps in 1911, Brigadier Avery joined and became adjutant >f the 10th Mounted Rifle Regiment.

He served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during the last war, and later represented New Zealand at the War Office. He passed the Staff College at Camberley in 1921, and was quartermaster-general at New Zealand general headquarters from 1922-24. In 1924 he left militry service to become general manager of Ford Sales and Service, Ltd., and was later secretary and treasurer of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company, Ltd., at Wellington. Brigadier Avery is already' a member of the Distinguished Service Order, and a companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

Squadron-Leader J. F. Hewett, A.F.C. Squadron-Leader Hewett was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School. He was an apprentice employed by Messrs Holland, Gillett, engineers, Auckland, but in 1915 left New Zealand for England to join the Royal Air Force, serving in France. He was awarded the French Croix de Guerre with palm in 1918.

Squadron-Leader Hewett joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1925. For a number of years he ran an air taxi service under the name of Falcon Airways, Ltd. In October, 1931, he made the first landing on Great Barrier Island.

At the outbreak of the present war he was a pilot for Air Travel (N.Z.) on the West Coast. He is one of the Dominion’s best-known commercial pilots. Flight-Lieutenant Goldsmith, M.B.E. Flight Lieutenant F. L. Goldsmith, M.8.E., came to New Zealand in 1924, on transfer from the R.A.F., with which he served In England and on the Indian frontier. He served in the ranks of the R.N.Z.A.F. until 1940, when he was commissioned. He has served at the same South Island station since he came to New Zealand, and has been engaged on the engineering staff. He is entitled to wear the Indian General Service Medal.

Pilot Officer ’ A. Chandler, B.E.M. Pilot Officer Chandler joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1936 and he came to a South Island station in 1937. Prior to that he lived with his parents at Feilding. He was in regular service with the Air Force in the South Island station until 1941, when he went overseas. He returned to New Zealand about six months ago and was stationed in the North Island. He has since gone overseas again.