H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND THE PERSONNEL COMPLETED

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1913, Page 3

H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND THE PERSONNEL COMPLETED

SCIONS 0?, GREAT HOUSES. ffaou otna own conaESPo&DEiiT.] LONDON, 17lh January. •7Uv; Zealand oughb to feel flattered at tho healthy spirit of imagination in which tha Admiralty Jias selected tho olßcers, and even tho ratings, of the gift Dreadnought for her visit to the Dominion. It is quit© a sign of the tim&3 that S'jch paine should have been taken to select a ship's company whioh elivairl Mvo many porsonul interests for the oversea Dominior.3 which the New Zealand is lo visit. There aro about a clowMi officers of colonial birth, another i dozen or so with experience of Australasian waters. ' J Captain Halsey's record is well known. He saw much service with the naval gune iv the Boer War, for which he got his promotion. As a matter of fact, ho commanded one of the naval redoubts iii the defence of Ladyemith; and he did much useful work before returning to his ship, the Philomel. Ho afterwards commanded the Good Hope, when Mr. Chamberlain visited South Africa, and lately has been in command of the cruiser Donegal. Captain Halfiey is forty years of age, and is son of the Eight Hon. T. F, Haleey, a very prominent Hertfordshire Freemason, and formerly in Parliament. Commander Henry E. Grace is a fci>n of the famous cricketer, Dr. W. G. Grace, and has been lately in the Naval Ordnance Department at the Admiralty. The navigating lieutenant, Edward 1%. Jones, comes from the battleship Russell. _ Lieutenant Dudley B. N. North, who is attached as a qualified interpreter in German, was flag-lieutenant to Admiral Sir Wilmofc Fawk«6 while the latter was commanding at Deyonport. The gunnery lieutenant, Richard T. Down, is a New Zeulander, or has connections in Taraaaki, where his father served in the Maori War. He was re tenfcly gunnery lieutenant in the Bwiftsure. The torpedo-lieutenant, Archibald T. Lovett-Oameron, comes from ihe , cruiser Suffolk, which is recently back from the Mediterranean. Lieutenant Geoffrey W. Walker-Jones was sublieutenant in the Challenger during her Australian conimiseion under the Aus- , tralian commander, Captain Guy Gaunt. The next on the list of lieotekants, Rupert C. Garsia, is also a New Zea-lande-r, and he ysj># in the Psyche on the Australian Static. t Lieutenant Alexander D. Boyle, imf^? is 25 years of age, ''s also a New Zeakflder, a son of Mr. A Boyle, of Christ* v^urch, and a member of the family of tk Earl of Glasgow. He was recently on the Bteriheim (Home Fleet) for duty with torpedo-destroyers. Lieutenant John S. Bovill wa6 • sublieutenant in i.he Challenger during her Australian commission. The Naval Reserve officer attached for the voyage is Lieutenant Cyril Gore. , Captain Harold Blount, commanding the detachment of the Boyal Marines on board the New Zealand, , has recently been in the Exmoutb^ when she was flagship in the Mediterranean. The chaplain is the Rev. James H. Scott, M;A. (Cambridge), who has had considerable experience in different chips since joining the Hood in 1904. He has also been in the Lancaster, Carnarvon, Natal, Donegal, and Africa. t The surgeons are lieet-Surgeon" "Cecil' J HV Bock and Staff-Surgeon James E. A. Clark-Hall. There are two sub-lieutenants, one being a New Zealander, Penrose L. Bar- . cfof t (formerly in the cruiser ■ Sufi" oik in tho Mediterranean), and the other Prince George of Battenberg, the son of Prince Louis, First Sea Lord of the Admiralty. Prince George was a middy on the cruiser Blanche, when she was attached to the destroyer flotilla on the Home Fleet. The Staff Paymaster, Frank P. E. Hanham, also comes from the Challenger, and his assistants are Arthur C. A. Janion and Denzil K. Thurstan, from the Dreadnought Implacable and ihe cruiser Cochrano re* fipectively. THE MIDSHIPMEN. There is a collection of sixteen midshipmen, most of them newly appointed to ships. One of them, Hugh B. Anderson, is a New Zealander, a Christchurch boy^ and Patrick Beauchamp Heard, who is eighteen years of age, is the eldest son of Colonel E. S. Heard, Chief of tho General Staff in New Zealand. Anthony G. Cunard, aged nineteen, is grandson of Sir Edward Cunard (the first baronet established the Cunard Line of steamers). Lord Burgher'sh, who is nineteen years of age, is the eldest son of the Earl of Westmorland} and the Earl of Carlisle, who is only seventeen, years of age, succeeded his father last year (his grandi father and his father having died within a- few months of each other). Arthur H. C. Barlow is a son of Admiral C. J. Barlow, who married an Australian, lady. Clare George Vyner is nephew of the Marquess of Northampton. He is eighteen years of age, and he changed ' Jus name from Scott- Compton to Vyner lafifc year by ' Royal Warrant. The other midshipmen ar© Claud B. Graham Watson, Gepffrey T. A. Scott, Thomas A. W. Robertson, John C. Anrtesley, Oliver J. L. Symon, Albert L. Poland, €e«l S. Miller, Edmund 0. B. Cooke, and Culhberfc F. B. Bowldv. THE ENGINEERS. The engine-room staff consists of Engi« near-commander Thomas H. Turner, who previously had technical charge of tho battleship Vengeance at Chatham, and his lieutenants John D. Grieve (from the Exmouth). Ernest M'K. Phillips (from the Warrior), and Harry G. Marshall (from tha Suffolk). «T« T ' h &9., l ? mi * w afe Jesse Hillacb, James G. Willis (torpedo), and Vincent S. Robinson (for instructional duties): the boatswains Sydney C. Legg and William 3. Reynolds (for qnarter-decfe duties); signal boatswain, Albert Lewis; Royal Marine gunner, Albert E. Elliott; carpenter, Robert Isitt; engineer artificers. John Laaiofld. Robert K. Weir, and Percy B. Brookqr, In order to enable him to visit his native la«d, Able Seaman R. J. Greening, ft Aaw Zwi lander, has been transferred from H.M.S. HeicuJes. THE BATTLESHIP'S ROUTE. It is MVen oti£ this week that the New Zsatajd will leave Plymouth on the 30th in»t., *nd during her absence of ought months and a-half from Home waters will cover 40,0C0 miles of ocean. On har way out she will call at, Cape Yards Maad.. Ascension, St. Helena, Sttnoiis Bay., and Tasmania; and tho ports at which it h dsftnitely stated she vj'H touch in the Dominion are Lyttelton, Wellington, Auckland, Dunedin, and Abaroa. She is to leave from Auckland on Ist June, and will visit then Fiji, Honolulu, "Vfcftcottver. British Columbia, Panama, LalI«Q, Valparaiso, Montevideo, Rio de uarwiro. frinidad, Barbados, Grenada, •St. t Vincent, St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigtia, St. IviltL 1 , Jamaica, and Bermuda, returning to Plymouth on 15th October. COMMENTS ON THS CRUISE. The Globo says; "The New Zealand's visit wil^ act as s. tonic iv stimulating the i colonists to pursue the policy upon ■which they have embarked of tallying lo'ind tho Imperial flag in tliu hour of m?J. and making it clem 1 beyond all leagoaable doubt that tiro vu J BoUi^qs of

Imperialism have by no means been exhausted by tho recent outpourings of ships aud men." Ihe London correspondent of the Maii«hostev Guardian remarks that " the Premier of New Zealand is now in Communication with tho Colonial Office and tho Admiralty, and that an important change of naval policy will shortly be aunounced."