ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 16 May 1916, Page 8

ON ACTIVE SERVICE.

NEW ZEALAND HOSPITAL. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] London, March. 31.

Miss A. Tombe, who has been matron of the New Zealand Hospital at Walton since it was established in the middle of 1915, has now resigned that position owing to ill-health, and the Hospital Committee has accepted her resignation) with great regret. Miss Tombe's work in the organisation and equipment of the hospital was extremely valuable, and throughout her expert advice has been greatly appreciated by tie War Contingent Association. Now that the institution, with its extension—3oo beds in all —is in thorough working order, she feels confident in leaving it in the hands : of a successor, and she will take a wellearned rest. It is understood that her successor is now on her way from Christchurch. Meanwhile, Mrs. Reading is in charge. Air. R. A. Wilson, Wellington, who joined the London Scottish some months ago, now has a commission in the Durham Light Infantry. Miss Isla Stewart, Masterton, who is at the military hospital at Cosham, hopes j later to be posted to a hospital where there are New Zealanders.

Dr. Emily H: Siedeberg is returning to New Zealand on account of the needs of her practice. Lieutenant Cecil F. G. Humphries, Christchurch. of the 12th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, has been promoted captain. Major V. J. Heather, Royal Field Artillery, of Auckland, was reported slightly •wounded, under date March 19, but he has quite recovered again, and has returned to duty. Miss Gladys Metherell, New Zealand Army Nursing Service, lately of the Erinholme Private Hospital, Auckland, is in England convalescing, after a serious attack of enteric. She is at the Queen Alexandra Nursing Home for Sisters, at Westminster. Miss Metherell was one of those saved from the Marquette disaster.

Second-Lieutenant J. Seabrook, Royal Flying Corps, of Auckland, it at present at the Curragh camp, Ireland. Captain A. T. G. Rhodes, Grenadier Guards, has now rejoined his regiment, and is # stationed at Chelsea with the- sth Battalion.

Norman B. Gadsby, a New Zealand medical student, who attested under Lord Derby's scheme, applied at the Aberdeen Tribunal for exemption on the ground that he would not have been liable for service under the Military Service Act. The applicant explained that he had come to this country for his medical education, and, under the first schedule of the Act, such men are exempt from military service. The tribunal, feeling that he should not be put in a worse position by volunteering than if he had not attested, allowed the appeal. News has been received that Captain Colin Hay Giffard, Ist Preserve Battalion, Ist King George's Own, Gurkha Rifles, was killed in action on March 8. He married a niece of the late Major Nelson George, formerly of Wapiti, Auckland, New Zealand. On February 24 Captain E. T. R. Carlyon, of the 10th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, was gazetted " missing believed killed." To-day comes the announcement that he is reported "wounded and prisoner of war.'' Captain Carlyon, an " old boy " of Wanganui College, was at Pembroke College, Cambridge, when war was declared, and he very soon was gazetted to a commission in the Sherwood Foresters. The news that he is alive will be gladly received by his New Zealand relatives and friends.