PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16881, 8 July 1920, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

GOSSIP ABOUT NEW ZEALANDERS.

(FROM OtR OWN- cobrestckdrst.) * LONDON , May 20. Mr S. G. Raymond, K.C y Crown Prose-jutor. Christchurcli, with. Mrs and Miss Raymond, has recently arrived in London, coming by way of Honolulu, rhe Dominion of Canada, and New York. Mr Raymond was ordered rest by his New Zealand oenlLst. and he proposes to take further advice while m England. .Since leaving New Zealand his tishcr Ims improved, and he hopes to be b::ck about the end of the year. Mr J. 11. Hay ward (Christchurch) expects to remain in England until August, but has not yet booked a pass.ige. Mr Haywnrd is about to leave on a business trip to xtipon and Edinburgh, which will occupy about a fortnight. Lord :md Lsdv Strathspey are going out to New Zealand in September. Humours were very general in London sonic little time ago that Lord Sirathpocy wouid very ]ikoiy succeed Liverpool in the Governor-Generalship cf t!ie Dominion, and in this connexion a contributor, "N.M.M.," to the "North Star" (Scotland) writes:— "We are sufficiently sanguine to hope that in the not distant future amends uav bo made for a screims neglect to respond to the vcrv natural wish ot our esteemed friend 'down southland that the principle may be extended to other outposts of the " Empire. . That the Royal sanction uouid he graciously and enthusiastically conceded there is no manner of doubt. Apart from being a debt of honour to our enterprising and progressive acts of statesmanship on the linos indicated would unite Empire and in bonds or mutnal trust, loyalty, and narallelcd ill the annals of history. ' Lieutenant J. B. Parks, M.C., Essex Regiment, retiras oil retired pay, from February 26th last, anjl is grauted the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1911 he was lent to the Dominion on the inauguration of her Defence I' orce, and on"the outbreak of war he enrolled as serceant-ma.ior in the Ist Battalion Wellington Regiment, leaving with the "Main Body in October, 1914. In 1915 he was recommended for an Imperial commission, and wa-s appointed to the Regiment, but was seconded for service with the N.Z.E.F., Coin* granted the rank of captain, and placed m command of the 2nd N.Z. MaJiine--*im Corps which was formed early in 1910. On the formation of the Maehine-Gun Battalion in 1918, he was promoted major, and later to the ranlc of lieuten-ant-colonel. with torn in and of thei j NZM G. Battalion. On becoming demobilised from the N.Z.E.F. he rejoin - od the Essex Regiment, and as lus duties were temporarily, for the war, lie reverted to the rank of lieutenant in the Essex Regiment. At the beginning of this yoar Lieut.-Colonel Parks was"over in Ireland on dutv as Assist-ant-Adjutant of the Ist Essex Battalion. ' Mrs Parts is a New Zealander. Lieutenant T. A. Izard, K.E.11., lias resisned hi.s commission, and is granted captain's rank. Captain C. *6. Teschemaker, Ist County of London Yeomanry, has been nttached to the Macjiine-Gun Company, but is now restored to the establishment of the Yeomanry (Territorial Force), _ _ _ Captain Cnthbert'T. Maclean, D.5.0., M.C. (formerly of Auckland 1 ), lias I*o- - "nod his commission in the Royal Scots Fusiliers for a permanent commission in the R.A.F. At the special and ordinary first professional examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for the diploma of Fellow, there were 168 candidates. Among, the 74 who were approved were S. T. Parker, M.B.t, Ch.B., Otago, L.R.C.P., M.8.C.5., Otago University and Middlesex Hospital, and H P W. White (Blenheim), M.8., Ch.B.'. "Edin., Edinburgh University. Zeal and ers wi3l be interested to liear that Dr. Parker has done brilliantly in his examinations since he arrived in England last August. Mrs Parker, who was formerly Miss Rita Morrison, of Dunedin, is a niece of Mr F. Hobbs, the well-known New Zealand singer, who has made a great reputation m England. . ... ±. At a recent open-air investiture at Buckingham Palace, various New Zealanders received decorations, including: —C.ii.E. (Military Division), Colonel J; N. Christie. Bar to D.5.0., Commander Frank Worsley, R.N.R.; tdso, 3.8. E. (Civil Division). _ D.5.0., Lieutenant J. Stenhouse, R.N.R.; also, D.B.E. (Civil Division'). M.C. and Bar, Flight-lieutonant Keith R. Park, R.A.F.; also received Distinguished Flyinc Cross (son of Professor Park, of Dunedin). Air Force Cross Captain f|. G. Callender, R.A.F. (Wellington). Captain (Acting-Major) K. R. Park resigned his permanant commission in the Royal Artillery in August, 1919, on taking up a permanent commission m. the Ro-al Air Force.' In 1914-1915 he served with the N.Z.F.A. m Egypt and Sallipoli, taking part in the first landing at Anzac, and "the August landing it'Savla Bay. At the end of August, 1915 he was transferred to u ilattery, ?9th' Division, and remained on tne Peninsula until the evacuation, atter tvhich lie served m Egypt and France in the same Division. l«or services in the field he was awarded a renilar commission in the Royal Artillery, 29th- Division. Me Eerv«l m the R, F i all thronsrh the first battle or she Somme, until wounded for the ■ >o cond time, in October, 1916. At the »nd of that vear he was seconded to :he R. Flving Corps, and on qualifying ie was appointed an instructor m flying, [n the middle of 1917 he went to France is pilot in No. 48 Fighting ua °£° n ' vas promoted Flight-Commander three nouths later, and became Snuadron Commander (maior) in April, 1918. lie s still in the 48th Squadron, and continuously served m France until after :he armistice. Ho received the M.C. n 1917 (August), -and a. Bar m Octo>er January. 1928. Croix de Guerre ivcc Palme, later the D. Flying CWs md a mention' in despatches Major Park had the honour of being the first nn in make a complete flight round e:it Britain and Ireland-May, 1919 fl ;.n ir . c „f 1600 miles, in. a rTandlev-Page "Night Bomber ''(twin >n°ine) in two and a half days. M a J° r >nd Mrs Park are living at I'olkestone, nd thev have a small son seven month*

01 Much publicity has been, secured by ATr "R W Grav m connexion wit-u a susigestlon to a social r \e«- Zor.land and Australia. His idea is to induce people to, see the through other angles than the Bnti . viewnoint, and he monuons £6-1; ns th<the t0,,.-. I» relative to tnw scheme, Jlr l-rav I described a, ' ; of the New i rernmont Offices, c-trand. But ot ! course, he has no connexion at all wHh ' the Commissioner's Office. &ir Thomas Mackenzie lios. in his pnrate JS <nveii Mr Gray his supportSUla i.?that the tour should extend ; fi-om October to April.