New Guinea's Defence Force

IT is stated in an article on page 24 that there is discontent among members of the New Guinea Volunteer Force be cause of the system of appointing officers that has been followed.

Later reports are that all sections of the Force are settling down very well.

Major C. R. Field, who had Great War experience, is second in command. Lt.- Colonel Walstab, who also is a Great War veteran, has been seconded from the command of the New Guinea Police, and is designated “General Staff Officer” —a term somewhat unusual in any military organisation smaller than a division.

Captain A. T. Norton, master of the Union Steam Ship Company's Pacific Islands cargo motor-ship “Limerick”, re tired in Sydney at the end of September.

He joined the Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand Ltd. in 1898, after serving a four years’ apprenticeship in sail with the Shaw, Savill and Albion Co. Since 1910, he had command of about 25 Union Co. vessels. Captain Norton went to Great Britain in 1934 to take charge of the “Limerick”.