MAJOR JAMES DISLEY has been ap- pointed District Organizing Secretary for the north-west of England. Major Disley, who is aged 43, was educated at the Sorbonne and Louvain Univer- sity. He served in the Intelligence Corps and later in the Foreign Office. He succeeds Captain N. Harding, who resigned for reasons of health after serving with the Institution for nine years.

COMMANDER H. B. ACWORTH, O.B.E.. R.N., has been appointed Eastern District Inspector in succession to Commander H. L. Wheeler, who is the new Superintendent at the Depot.

Commander Acworth, who is aged 44, was educated at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. He served in destroyers from 1931 until the end of the war. He was promoted Com- mander in 1947 and from 1948 to 1950 served in the Naval Intelligence Division of the Admiralty. After ser- vice in H.M.S. Loch Glendhu, he returned to the Admiralty. For the last year he has been commanding the Royal Naval Barracks, Camarata, in Malta. Commander Acworth is a naval honorary member of the Royal Yacht Squadron.