NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 139, 12 June 1918, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(From Our Special Correspondeirt.) LONDON, April 30. The Rhodes Trust has just issued its report for the year 1917, and in it appears a list of Rhodes' scholars and the distinction they won, and among them figures that of Mr. C. M. GUray, the New Zealand scholar, as winner of the Military Cross.

Two of our V.C's have been having a somewhat thin time lately, for Lieut. Bassett, V.C., was wounded recently while in France with his regiment, and Sec.-Lieut. L. W. Andrew, V.C, who had just got his commission at the 0.C.8. at Cambridge, has been down with pleurisy at Walton Hospital. Sec.-Lieut. S Frickleton, V.C, who was at Cambridge at bhe same time as Lieut. Andrew, and has also got his commission, has had better luck, and now, having finished his training, is on duty at Sling.

The following have been admitted to the Brighton Convalescent Home, Brighton:—From 1/N.Z.G.H., Brockenhurst, Captain T. S. Gillies, 2/CJ.R. From Walton-on-Thamee, Captain A. P. MeCormaek, 1/O.IJL; Lieut. T. C. Evans, N.Z.P.8.; Sec-Lieut. W. T. Findlay, 2/O.T.R. From 3/L.G.H., Wandsworth, Sec.-Lieut. W. Mann, 0.1. R. From Sling, Sec.-Lieut. J. A. McDonald, WJ.R.

Private Q. Gale, 3yVfSM., has received J his discharge as medically unfit. The following New Zealanders have left the Brighton Convalescent Home, and have reported at Headquarters, London:— Lieute. E. B. Tustin, 1/RJ3.; M. H. Tisdale, 1/OJ.R.; Sec-Lieuts. J. W. Hmton, N.Z.R.8.; C. Hartß'hom, 2/OJ.R-; J. G. Rickleton. N.Z.FA; and Cadet J. V. Walker, D.S.C

Gunner I. H. Maclean, N.Z.FA.., has been demobilised as from April 23, 1918, for twelve months, to continue his studies.

Corporal (T.-Sgt.) L. G. Donovan, 1/W.IJL, has obtained a commission in the Royal Air Force.

Sec.-Lietrt. H. D. Buddie, 2/N.Z.R.8., has left the Brighton Convalescent Home on general leave.

Miss Mabel Thurston, Matron-in-Chief, N.Z.E.F.,- has had the honour of being received toy the Queen.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie opened at Torquay on Saturday the soldiers' club provided by the New Zealand War Contingent Association.

Lieut.-Colonel F. B. Sykes, D.5.0., R.A., has given up his command of a N.Z.F.A. Brigade, and has rejoined the Imperial Army.

Staff Nurses G. I. Baker, A. E. Bennett, N. K. Dempsey, A. Harris, and E Lewie, have been put on the strength of the N.Z.A.N.S.

One of the new -winners of the M.C. Major A. F. Hamilton, who has b<;en serving with such gallantry in East Africa, as to gain him this decoration is an old Nelson College boy.

Mr. C. S. King (of the Waihi Grand Junction mine) has arrived in London via San Francisco and New York on a business trip, and is staying at the Bath Club. Dr«yer Street W. He expects to return to New Zealand in a few weeks' time.

Captain R. D. McFarland, 2/A.LR. Lieutenants J. R. Wells, N.Z.M.C., and R. L. Anderson, 1/R3., and SecondLieutenants J. E. Day, 4/R.8., G. P. Chapman, N.Z-F.A., G. H. Roach 1/W.1.R., and H. D. Buddie, 2/RB., have been admitted to the Brighton Convalescent Home for New Zealand officers during the past few days. Captain R. McPherson, and Lieutenant C. R. Dansey, N.Z.P.8., have left and reported at headquarters, London.

Captain K. L. Caldwell, M.C, RJP.C, of Auckland, has been appointed instructor at the Central Flying School, with rank of flight-commander.

Mr. P. C. Gillon, the wireless operator on the Otaki when she was sink, after putting up a gallant fight, has been removed from Karlsruhe to Switzerland for internment.

Captain T. E. Y. Seddon, of the Canterbury Regiment, has relinquished the appointment of AJ3.C. to General Russell, and is proceeding to America on propaganda work.

Captain L. Levy, RA.M.C, and Mrs. Levy are returning to New Zealand.

It is Lord Beaverbrook's intention to employ Tom Sullivan, the ex-champion sculler, who spent three and a-half years in Ruhleben, in propaganda work. This

would be a very wise thing to do, says

one sporting authority, for Tom is not only a forcible and able speaker, but he is

a patriot in every corpuscle of his blood. His opinion of the average German

would not look nice in print. Tom Sullivan was entertained to lunch last week

by the members of the Services Club, and afterwards he related some of his experiences. On Monday he was the guesrt of Mr. H. Griffiths Newton, who invited many of his old rowing and sporting friends to meet him.

Mists Annie R Gill, of Auckland, is staying at the Regent Palace Hotel. Lieut.-Colonel R. Heaton Rhodes, who came to England on behalf of the New Zealand Red Cross to make special inquiry into the methods by which Red Cross funds were being administered has now set up a Red Cross Committee in London, which will " carry -on" distinct work apart from the N.Z.W.C.A., which has hitherto administered the funds. Squadron Commander W. Carr, R.N., of Auckland, has been in London durinothe past week. He is at the Royal Air Force station at Eastchurch. Captain B. F. Aldred, N.Z.M.C, and Lieut. J. J. Kyne, N.Z.F.A., have been admitted to the Brighton Convalescent Home.

Corporal G. A. C. Ulrich, and Spr. C. F. Goldsbro, of the N.Z.E... have received their discharge as medically unfit. ilrs. McHugh and Miss Ballantyne, of Auckland, who returned to Codford recently after spending a fortnight in London on a special mission, are again in London, working in connection with the International V.M.C.A. Lieut. H. B. Mackenzie, N.Z.M.C., has just passed his final in medicine at Edinburgh, and will shortly join one of the hospital staffs. Colonel McLean, N.Z.ILC, has assumed command of the No. 3 N.Z. General Hospital, Codford. Sergt.-Ma.jor C. Parnell, Auckland, is* now bandmaster of the N.Z.E. regimental band at Boscombe. Mis3s Rosemary Rees, who has entertained so many of the N.Z.KF., for the War Contingent Association, is goin" over to France to perform in theatres behind the front. Miss Price, R.R.C., late matron of the Stationary Hospital in France, has recently returned to New Zealand.