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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 40, 15 February 1918, Page 7

- Sergeant F.-Loftus, of the Field Ambulance Corps, who has been decorated by the King of the Belgians with the Croix de Guerre, is a son of Air. P. Loftus, of Austin-street. He left with the Main Body of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, ami has since been continuously on service. Before enlisting he was in charge of the bookbinding department of the New Zealand.Times. The newly-appointed Governor of New South Wales, Sir Walter E. Davidson, K.C.M.G., who.was in. Auckland this week, hus bad a long record of colonial service. For 20 years he was an official in Ceylon, being Mayor lor three- years, and twice representing Ceylon interests in Europe. In 1900 hel was scut to the Transvaal, and spent three years in helping to prepare the way for self-govern-ment. Ha was then appointed Governor of the fertile Seychelles Islands, in tho Indian Ocean, and during his term of office the revenue,-through new industries, v/as doubled without increasing taxation. He then went to Newfoundland, where, out of a population of a quarter of a, million, 10,000 men nave offered themselves for military service.