H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15235, 24 February 1913, Page 5

H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND.

THE PERSONNEL COMPLETED. A SELECTED SHIP'S COMPANY. [FROM our OWN correspondent.] London, January 17. New Zealast) ought to iVel shvfcteirai at '-•<© health? of invagination in which the Admiralty in s selected the 0i1,.;- ra. <»rtd even the rs- ,'<gs, of the gif t for her visit to the Dominion. It is quite a sign of the times that such pains Should have been taken to select a ship's company which should have many personal interests for the oversea Dominions, which the New Zealand is to visit. There are about ft. dozen officers of colonial birth, another dozen or so with experience of Australasian waters. Captain Halsey's record is-well known, He saw much service with the naval guns in the Boer- war, for which lie got his promotion. As a. matter of fact he commanded one of the naval redoubts in the defence of Ladysmith; and ho did much useful work before returning to his ship, the Philomel. He afterwards commanded the Good Hope, when Mr. Chamberlain visited South Africa, and lately has been in command of the cruiser Donegal. Captain Halsey is 40 years of age, and is a son of tho Right Hon. T. F. Halsey, a very prominent Hertfordshire Freemason, and formerly in Parliament. Commander Henry E. Grace is a son of the famous cricketer, Dr. W. G. Grace, and lias been lately in the Naval Ordnance Department at the Admiralty. The navigating lieutenant, Edward E. Jones, comes from the battleship Russell. Lieutenant Dudley B. N. North, who is attached as a qualified interpreter in German, was flaglieutenant to Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes, while the latter was commanding at Devonport. The gunnery lieutenant, Richard T. Down, is a New Zealander, or has connections in Taranaki, where his father served in the Maori War. He was recently gunnery lientenant in the SwiftsureThe torpedo lieutenant, Archibald T. Lovett-Cameron, comes from the cruiser Suffolk, which is recently back from the Mediterranean. Lieutenant Geoffrey W. Walker Jones was sub-lieutenant in the Challenger during her Australian commission under the Australian commander; Captain Guy Gaunt. The next on the list of lieutenants, Rupert C. Garsia, is also a New Zealander, and he was in the Psyche on the Australian .station. Lieutenant Alexander D. Boyle, who is 25 years of age, is also a New Zealander, a son of Mr. A. Ik)vie, of Christchurch, and a member of the family of the Earl of Glasgow. He was recently in the Blenheim (Home Fleet) for duty with torpedo destroyers. Lieutenant John B. Boviil was sub-lientenant in the 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 Royal Marines on board the New Zealand, has recently been in the Exmouth, wlien she 'Was flagship in the Mediterranean. The chaplain is the Rev. James H. Scott, M-A. (Cambridge), who has had -considerable experience in different ships since joining the Hood in 1904, He has also been in thß Lancaster, Carnarvon, Natal, Donegal, and Africa. The surgeons are FleetSurgeon Cecil H. Rock and Staff-Surgeon James R. A. Clark-Hall.

There are two sub-lieutenants, one being a New Zealander, Penrose L. Barcroft (formerly in' the cruiser Suffolk in the 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 of 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 R. Thurstan,-from the Dreadnought Implacable and . the cruiser Cochrane respectively. The Midshipmen. There is a collection of 16 midshipmen, most of them newly appointed to chips. One of them, Hugh B. Anderson, is a New Zealander, a Christchurch bov, and Patrick Beauchamp Heard, who "is 18 years of age, is the eldest son of Colonel E. S. Heard, Chief of the General Staff in New Zealand. Anthony G. Cun&rd, aged 19, is grandson of" Sir Edward Cunard (the first baronet, who established the Cunard line of steamers. Lord Burghersh, who is 19 years of age, is the eldest son of the Earl of Westmorland, and the Earl of Carlisle., who is only 17 years of age, succeeded his father last year (his grandfather and his father having died within a few months of each other). Arthur H. C. Barlow is a son of Admiral 0. J. Barlow, who married an Australian lady. Clare George Vyner is a nephew of the Marquess of Northampton. He is 18 years of age, and he changed his name from Scott-Compton to Vyner last year, by Royal warrant. The other midshipmen are Claud B. Graham Watson, Geoffrey T. A. Scott, Thomas A. W. Robertson, John C. Annesley, Oliver J. L. S.vmon, Albert L. Poland, Cecil S. Miller, Edmund G. B. Cooke, and Cuthbert F. B. Bowlby. , The Engineers. The engineroom staff consists of Engineer-Commander Thomas H. Turner, who previously had technical charge of the battleship Vengeance at Chatham, and his lieutenants, John D. Grieve (from the Exmouth), Ernest McK. Phillips (from the Warrior), and Harry G. Marshall (from the Suffolk). The gunners are Jesse lliliack> James C.' Willis (torpedo), and Vincent S. Robinson (for instructional duties); the boatswains Sydney C. Legg and William J. Reynolds (for quarter-deck duties) signal boatswain, Albert Lewis; Royal Marine gunner, Albert E. Elliott; carpenter, Robert Isitt; engineer artificers, John Lamond, Robert K. Weir, and Percy R. Brocker. In order to enable him to visit his native land, Able Seaman R. J. Greening, a New Zealander, has been transferred from 11.M.5. Hercules. ■

The Battleship's Route. It is given out this week that the New Zealand will leave Plymouth on the 30th inst., and during her absence of eight and a-half months from Home waters will cover 40,000 miles of ocean. On her way out she will call at Cape Verde Island, Ascension, St. Helena, Simons' Bay and Tasmania; and the ports at which it is definitely stated she will touch in the Dominion are Lyttelton, Wellington,' Auckland, Dunedin, and Akaroa. She is to leave from Auckland on. June 1, and will visit then Fiji, Honolulu, Vancouver, British Columbia, Panama, CaJlao, Valparaiso, Monte Video, Rio de Janeiro, Trinidad, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucin, Dominica, Antigua, St. Kitts, Jamaica and Bermuda, returning to Plymouth on October 15.