WHO'S 'WHO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15125, 16 October 1912, Page 10

WHO'S 'WHO.

Sir Charles tipper, who is spending the evening of bis days in Vancouver, has completed his 91st year. Ho was born at Amherst, Nova Scotia, on July 2, 1821. He is the only survivor of the statesmen who arranged the federation of Canada. The boy scout movement has enrolled under its banner another titled lady as scoutmaster. At Patshull, near Wolverhampton, whero the Earl of Dartmouth has his ancestral home, there is a troop of boy scouts, of which Lady Joan Legge, one of Lord Dartmouth's daughters, is the scoutmaster. At a parade of the scouts before the earl and countess Lady Joan Leggo put the scouts through their Etaff and signalling drills. Ambulance work was also performed under her ladyship's supervision. Lord Dartmouth presented badges to the boys, and was afterwards thanked by Lady Joan in a. short speech.

The'career of Major-Gen. W. It. Robertson, C.V.0., C.8., D.5.0., should bo a valuable incentive to all boys, and especially those who are interested in Military affairs. General Robertson, who is now 52, started life in the very humble capacity of odd boy in a gentleman's house. Later on ho became a waiter, and ultimately enlisted in the army. He served with great distinction as a private, and was granted a commission in 1888. His rite was rapid, and ho became a colonel in 1903. He i 3 now tho headof the Staff College at Cam-ber-ley, and is recognised as ono of tho three cleverest and best-informed men in tho British army, and also as one of tho greatest authorities in the world on military ' matters. He has taught himself many languages and has a remarkable knowledge of military history and tactic-;. Ho is universally popular and occupies tho chief position in tho most exclusive military academy in the world with dignity and honour. At a recent dinner party at hich several Cabinet Ministers were present, each guest was asked what man, whom he did not know, he would most *° to meet. Curiously enough, two of the Cabinet Ministers answered: " A man named Robertson, head of the military collego at Camberlej-."

Emma Fagg, who was one of tlio little band ot devoted women who, under Florence Nightingale, rendered splendid nursing services to our soldiers in tho Crimean war, is now, and has been for some 27 years, an inmate of the Minster Union, llianet. She xs approaching her 86th birthday, and her story is an interesting one Born in the village of Bridge, near Canterbury, on November 1826, where her family had long resided, she entered bt John s House, London, one of the first institutions for the training of nurses, in IHW, 'i.. , two years later she arrived with Miss Nightingale's party at Scutari. Here she passed the whole winter, surrounded by misery and harrowing scenes. Five days after the arrival of the party, the ■wounded from the Alma bogan to come in, and from that time for many months,there was no rest for the nurses, though, when her hard work was called to her memory, Nurse Fagg said, _" We worked many hours, and tho strain was great, but wo did not call it hard work." At Scutari there were two hospitals, and the nurses were transferred from one to tho other as necessity arose. The wounded arrived by steamer, and sometimes as many as 500 men came in a, vessel, with one doctor, and they had to lie at first on the bare pave,the condition they had left the battlefield and with a water supply that barely sufficed for drinking purposes. No wonder that in the wards in which Emma Kagg ,worked, there were sometimes 100 l?pV" 24 Ji OUrS ; r Emma Fa lived at St Peters, Thanet, for a number of years an! about five years ago, on it becoming kivnvn that she was a workhouse inmate. a 'oca! fund was started in order to supply her with comforts above the Poor Law regulations. This fund having now become exhausted, it has been reopened,, ».