PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17732, 7 April 1923, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

GOSSIP ABOUT NEW ZEALANDERS. (FROM Otra OWN COBRESPONDEHT.) / LONDON, February 20. Mr G. J. Kellook, who is reading law at Cambridge with, a view to becoming a solicitor, arrived in England in 1908, and his home address now is at Totnea, South Devon. He was at. school at Sherborne, and went s up to the University last October. For his College. St. John's, Mr Keliock plays Rugby, and he is very keen about all kinds of country sports, especially hunting. Although so long nt in England, Mr lvellock has many relatives and friends in the Dominion, particularly, perhaps, in Canterbury. Four New Zealand medical students of Edinburgh University sat for their final examination in November, and all have passed and graduated. Two ot these come from Auckland —Messrs 13. G. Thompson and La. C. L. Averill; two from Wellington—Messrs It. T. F. Grace and R. P. Wilson. Dts. Grace and Averill are at present house surgeons at the Edinburgh Royal Infirma.ry, and Dr. Wilson is hoping soon to go out to New Zealand for a trip. Dr. Averill will probably remain in the United Ivingcfom for two years more to do a. course of post-graduate work. Noticing the appointment to Samoa of Major-General G. S. Richardson, "Truth" say.s that he "did good work on tho administrative side in helping to organise the Royal Naval Division in the earlv days of the war, and, after service at the front, he commanded the New Zealand troops, in England, earninrr conspicuous success in keeping up tlieir nienbi.l interest by affording facilities in training likely to be of use to tlfem in seeking subsequent employment in civil life in New Zealand and elsewhere." Dealing with Ldeut.-Colonel 0. G. Powlefe's "The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine," the "Scotsman" observes: "The modern crusade that brought the New Zealanders over to ta.ko part in the fight with the Turks ■while tl.iey were threatening Egypt, saw. prodigies of valour at Gallipoli, and in Palestine and Mesopotamia. „ This interesting and succinct military history will bring home, lioth to New Zealand and to the Empire generally, a. proud sense of the importance of. the achievements of the Australasians in the field. In 1917 and 1918 they went forward—after having, in a prior action, covered sixty miles in thirty-six hours —from battle to battle, in brilliant determination and dash, through the Jordan Valley and further east, to final and complete victory." While Mr F. W. Grainger (Patea) is in England he intends to call for tenders for the building of a small coastal cargo steamer to carry refrigerated produce to Wellington. He expects to be in the. United' Kingdom for about six months. Matters,rotative to the marketing and handling of frozen meat and dairy produce will also be of special interest to Mr Grainger, who will be visiting Smitlifield and Tooley street.