PERSONAL NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17614, 19 October 1917, Page 2

PERSONAL NOTES.

ITEMS FROM LONDON. [From Of* r , n'oi>ysTn>mT;NT.l .; LONDON, Aucnst 15. ' Mr Edward M. Darken, of Wellington, the meteorolog'cal exp'rt, has just returned from N tv York, where he has been striving 'the weather of th* United STates and collecting meteoroilogical data for seven months. In that city h- receiv-d valuable assistance from the head of the Science Division of th" New York Public Library, and Dr Arctowski, formerly Meteorologist ; with the B°lc:ian exnedition to An- ; tarctica. All the staff of that fin& library were most easrer to heln him in his res - arches, and under suoh happy auspice l ? he practical'y doubled his knowle-lge of bis fascinating study. Th? Hi<rh Commissioner for New Zealand! Sir Thomas" Mackenzie, assisted Mr Darken last year iri bringing Mr Darken's system of weather forecasting under the notice of the Imperial authoritf's, and he is more than ever con-"'need tit he can solve the weather proVcm whcti the opnortunitv arises. Flight-Lioutenant N. R. Davennort, R.N., of Auckland, who was badly smashed in a seaolan* accident in the ' North S?a about a year aco, is returnino' to New Zealand. Mr Davenport has for the last six months on Home service, attached to th- staff I of the Aeronautical Tnsnection Department (Ministry of Munitions), engaged in testing aero-engines but as his h'nlbh has been far from satisfactory d"rin<r the period, it is n-w thought advisable th it he shouM return home, and he has. therefore, taken his discharge. Mr W. H. Da'-en'Mjrt. the well-known of Auckland, brother of FMght-Lieutena'it Davenport, is also in England, unfortunately in hospital at i Brnckenhnrst. suffering from a wound i obtained while on errvice in France. i Mr W. H. Davenport has been for the ' last two vars driving a motor ambulance in Efvpt and Franco. Cantain Robert R. Briffault, of Auckland, the well-known surgeon, now serving with the R.A.M.fJ. "Attached to the York and Lancaster Battalion. He b°en in London this we'k. tapper R. A. Calv'rt. N.Z.E.. of Rte. carton, has been staving this week at Crouch Mr" Kenneth M'Adam and theMsses M'Adam, of Oamaru, are staying at 1 Harrow-on-the-l±ill, in North London. • . . , i On August 15 General Maude issued 1 a list of names of those mentioned in di-pntches covering tho Mesopotamia ' campaign, the following occur under the heading Australian and. New Zealand Forces :_L-e"t'nant R. Clark. Lieutenant M. J. Fi'lair. W C Marr, all of £he Anrac Wireless Squadron; T. C. Locko, No. 15991; Ser-reant W. H. J. Long- ! ton, No. 14328; Lance-Cornoral W. Pearse, No. 4-2W5: LanC-Corporal A. C. S'lby, No. 14350, all of tho Anzao W : reless Souad'-on. _-._ ~ , - Private H. Phillips, 2-C.LR. died of wounds at on August 8. Lieutenant-Colonel R. ■ O. Allen, who was dangerously illl from ennshot wounds in chest and thigh, in the 24th I General Hospital, is progressing tav- ' ourably, and is now in Walton Hos- | C. E. Wy-tt. N.Z.M.C, is in ' the- 26t ! , General Hospital, France, suffering from nervous breakdown. The following members of the N Z.E.F. have recei-ed their discharge from the force:—Private P. J. L. Clievassus N.Z.M.C., as medicallv unfit; S rgeant A.'S. Rintoul,. N.Z.E., for commission in the Impena.] Armv; Lieutenant G. L. Stelman C.M.R., for commission in the R.F.C. The following have been nominated for commissions in the Imp"rial ' [r orces : _J. H. Bumard, Canterbury Regiment; T. Beanlmd. N.Z.E.; J. Ma""in Wellington Regiment; M. J. j Fuller, N.Z.F.A.