PERSONA NOTES FROM HOME

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16962, 11 October 1920, Page 8

PERSONA NOTES FROM HOME

(»ROM OUR OWN CORKESPONDENT.) LONDON, August 27. Captain A. T. G. Rhodes, who lately arrived from New Zealand, accompanied by Mrs Rhodes, has rejoined his regiment, the Grenadier Guards, and is now doing duty with the second battalion, at present stationod at Wimbledon. In the autumn the battalion headquarters will come up to Chelsea.

Mr and Mrs Bernard Tripp (Timaru) are leaving lor New Zealand on September 4th in the s.s. Konigin Luise, of the Orient Lino, via Australia. Mr Tripp came to England some five months ago as New Zealand delegate for the Geneva International Red Cross ConferencOj and has also been occupied in making 'arrangements to have the Red Cross work carried on in peace time. The New Zealand Red Cross, in conjunction with the Canadian Red Cross, has appointed Captain W. Mullineux at Calais to ]ook after and assist New Zealand and Canadian relatives who wish to visit the soldiers' graves in France and Belgium. He is carrying out well a much-needed organisation. It is announced that the Joint Committee df the British Red Cross and St. John of Jerusalem will make a special effort during October and November for fnnds with which to carry on its work amongst the ex-soldiers and sailors who are still in need of treatment, and also to assist the horne civil hospitals and curative institutions, the extension of the home ambulance service, and the peaco library. It is hoped that tho j collections oh one Sunday can be given to the joint societies, and an appeal urging this has been signed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Cardinal Bourne, and the heads of the Free Churches. Sunday.. November 14th, is the date selected. The amount from these Sunday collections will be snared with the Imperial War Relief Fund, which is dealing wfth tho typhus scourge of Central Europo. ' Mb tho conclusion of his stay in Rome, and after having completed his official business there. Archbishop Redwood went to France, where he stayed for about a month, and where he had the opportunity of meeting, a number of former schoolmates, including tho illustrious Archbishop of Toulouse, and Monsoigneur Germain (with whom he was at College near Lyons over sixty years ago). A week was devoted to a tour of the battlefields' of France —partioujlarly the regions of the.. Somme, the lAisne, and the Marne.. Returning to England, he went north, accompanied "by his nephew, Mr Vernon Redwood. IHe attended the Roman Catholic Congress at Liverpool, and was chairman of one of the committees. On his return from Liverpool he stayed for a few days in Staffordshire, visiting the home of his father. Tho Archbishop also attended tho church at Little Hayward, where he was baptised. But his search for anyone who remembered his family was in vain. It was 78 years since'He left the place, and the memory of the oldest inhabitant went back "only forty-five years. Then Archbishop Redwood crossed to Ireland to see friends there. Throughout the tour he has on tho whole enjoyed very good health, and, despite the fact of his being in the eighty-second year of his age, and fortysdventh year of the episcopate, his friends in Europe declare with pleasure and wonder that he looks and walks like a man of sixty. . With his chaplain, he is booked to leave Southampton by the Tainni, on September 9th, direct for 'Wellington. . _ The battleship Erin, Captain P. H. ■Hall Thompson, C.M.G. (who arrived from New Zealand at the beginning of this year) has completed her refit at Portsmouth Dockyard, and has rehoisted the flag of Rear-Admiral V. H. GBernard, C.8., Rear-Admiral Reserve Fleeif at the Nore, on returning to Shoernessrto resume duties as flagship, and as turret drill-ship for tho Nore Gnnnerv Establishments. . Lieutenant M. McMaster (son-in-law of Mr H. Quane, Christchurch) has been appointed to H.M.S. Sea Wolf. It will interest New Zealanders to know that, since the formation of the. Overseas Club and Patriotic League,, founded by Major J. Evelyn Wrench (which has been in existence ten years), the club has enrolled 26,000 members. During the war it collected and distributed nearly £1,000.000.