No. 1185.

180/61.

.  Navy Public Relations.

.IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

CHANGES IN SENIOR NAVY POSTS. '

Â·  The Minister for the Navy,  Senator Gorton, today announced

new appointments to the senior Naval posts in two areas.

Captain W.B.M. Marks,  C.B.E., D.S.C., is to become Naval

Officer-in-Charge,  West Australia Area, while Commander ÃÂ.ÃÂ¡.

Keatinge has been appointed Naval Officer-in-Charge,  North Australia

Area. Â·

Captain Marks,  who is at present Director of Naval Reserves

at Navy Office in Canberra, will receive Commodore's rank when he

takes up his West Australian appointment in February. A former

Australian Naval Attache in Washington, he was awarded the C.B.E.

for his work as chairman of the Joint Services Committee which made

arrangements for the second atomic test at Monte Bello Island.

In Fremantle, Captain Marks will succeed Commodore R.

Rhoades, D.S.C., A.D.C., who has been appointed Commodore

Superintendent of Training'at Flinders Naval Depot in Victoria.

Commander ÃÂ.ÃÂ¡. Keatinge will succeed Captain A.H. C Qoper

as Naval Officer-in-Charge,. North, Australia Area. Commander

Keatinge, who has been serving as Superintendent of the R.A.N.

Experimental Laboratory in Sydney, will go to Darwin in December

as a Captain. Captain Cooper is to direct the Nav y ’s survey work

as Hydrographer R.A.N., based on Sydney. .

At Navy Office,. Captain Marks will be succeeded as Director

of Naval Reserves by the Australian Naval Attache in Washington,

Captain J.H. Dowson. Commander N.A. Boase, the captain of the cadet

training ship, H.M.A.S. SWAN, succeeds Commander Keatinge at the

Navy's Experimental Laboratory.

Canberra, 21st November, 1961,

