MOUNT FELIX.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 17010, 10 November 1915, Page 8

MOUNT FELIX.

THE NEW ZEALAND -MILITARY HOSPITAL.

[From Oub Correspondent.] LONDON, September 14. Tho New Zealand , Military -Hospital has quite established itself' now *t Walton-on-Thanies, and been taken under the wing of the kind folk around, while a small New Zealand colony has sprung up noari by. The .Countess of Hardwieke (nee Miss Nellie Russell; of Auckland), chairwoman of the Ladies' Visiting Committee, is the last arrival. ' ...-., 1 ■

Entertainments are given at the hospital twice a. week, the patients are taken for frequent outings on the rivei and for motor trips as,often as these can be arranged, while recently 6evera! have been taken up to London for a tour of tlie sights—no mean attraction when evidences of German bombs are to bo seen in a 'goo 1 many of the mam streets of the metropolis!. Something of a sensation was caused, in a ' tea shop in Paternoster Row last week, when a number of New Zealand braves did a Maori haka to amuse their hosts.

Croouet, bovls, tennis and clock golf are played every day in. the extensive, grounds surrounding the hospital. Divine service is held by various local clergy each Sunday morning. -S THE PLUNKET. FAMILY. There are no fewer than eight members of the Plunket family'hard at work now for the * hospital—Lady Plunket visits the New Zealand wounded here and in the other hospitals, Lord Plunket is at work all the week (often Sundays included) at the office of ti.e New Zealand -War- Contingent Aasocia- « tibri, four of their daughters'are pantry maids ; in, Iho •■ hospital, and - Terence, their son, is—until cruel fate ordains that he goes back to school—an orderly, while Lord Punket's sister is assistant honsokeapsr. at "Mount Felix." Thero are a number of New Zealand wounded now iii Cardiff, while others are accommodated in .the Canadian Hospital at Taplow. Tho following were patients in. thft New Zealand Military Hospital at' Walton-on-Thames on Monday last: —~

Alfred John Anderson. Percy Amos Arnold, George William Blunden, Tom Bossett, John William Bainbridge, John Robertson Bremneri William Bu. chanan, John Buckley,.WjHiam Ewarb Bromley-Smith, John Laurence Brounlie, James Bristow, Frederick Boyce, Sidney Balon,' George Jeffery Blsok, Edward Joseph . Callaghan, Sidney Blake Crawford, John Clarence Cuff, Charlea Chegwidden, Maurice • Carte*", Arthur Dodsdn, Thomas Draper, Francis James Davey, John William Dowdall, Cecil Harold Duncan, Hanoiton Burnes Elmslie, Howard EUfo, John Ashley England, Michael Feeney, Albert William Fisher, Frank Farquhar, James William Fergftsson', Frank Minter Furness, Charles Finlayson, Joseph Griffiths, Alexander John Grant, John Thomas Gill, Eric Charlea Hoult. Claude Russell Hill, Chads* Hopkins, Frederick Stanley Hill, Norman Bennett Howall, John Peter Hansen, Percival Noel Jamison, Ernest Richard Jonston, Herbert Arthur Johnston, Clifford Keiler, James Livingstone Kar, James Berridge Lynda, Leslie William Louison, Dennis Lftjrlor, John Lewis Lee, John Lewis Lougraaß, CI fton Lucas, Robert Lorrison, David M'Burney, Daniel George ' M'Carthy, Joseph Montgomery, George M*Alpine, John Jamsa Milne, Gibson Macmillan, C'.utha Nants Mackenzie, Gordon Mackenzie, James Albert Nielsen, Harry B°rt Neilson, . George Wilson Niven, William Roy Oakloy, Henry Fdward O'Meara, George Walter Ernest Perrin. Orlando Pointon. Robert P«i», Harold Grosvenor Pinell, James Livingston Porter, John Parker, Ernest Roy Quintan, Stephen John Roberts, Cuthbert John Shaw, Philip Sidney Sinclair, Wilfred Arthur- Smith, Frank Albert Shirley. Oliver Francis Sutton, Lyell Ernest Ta,tton, Reginald Thompson, Mark Tuite, James Dawson Welsh, Edward Waring, Jos-ph William. Wilkes Joseph Henry Wakefield, William George Wright, John M'tntyre White, Arthur Frederick Young, tsttock Henry Reid. . .