TO HAVE COMMISSION

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21200, 24 August 1940, Page 6

TO HAVE COMMISSION

NAVAL RATING’S PROMOTION SECOND FROM DOMINION (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Friday The selection of Leading Seaman H. T. A. Winnall, formerly of Auckland, for promotion to the rank of sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy, to date from July 22, was announced today by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones. The Minister said that Mr Winnall was the second New Zealand rating to receive promotion under the scheme introduced in 1935, which threw open to New Zealand ratings of outstanding ability the same opportunities for promotion to commissioned rank as those available to ratings in the Royal Navy. “Mr Winnall will join a number of other acting sub-lieutenants of about his own age who are to undergo courses for the rank of lieutenant at Greenwich College and other naval schools,” the Minister added. “Most of these officers entered the service through the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, or from English public schools. Mr Winnall will therefore be on an identical footing with his contemporaries who entered as cadets, and will be on equal terms with them for the whole of his future career as a naval officer.”