N.Z. Naval Chief Returns After A Visit To Australia
(P.A.) Auckland, April 11 Describing his visit to Australia as prompted bv reasons of common sense the chief of the New Zealand Naval Staff, Commodore G. W. G. Simpson, returned by air today. Commodore Simpson left New Zealand on the cruiser Australia on March 30 and was the guest of the Governor of Victoria (Major-General Sir William Dugan). Commodore Simpson said that when Admiral Sir Louis Hamilton was in New Zealand last year, he suggested that Commodore Simpson should return the visit to meet the people with whom he would be in cornmunication. He h. d accepted the invitation and had had long discussions about the matter of mutual interest with the new Australian naval chief. Rear-Admiral J-. A. Gollins. Two of the chief topics were the extent to which New Zealand ratings could be trained in specialised work |in Australia, and whether, in an emergency, either country vzould have equipment at the other’s disposal.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 12 April 1948, Page 5
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