REPLACING GERMAN GOODS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16338, 19 September 1916, Page 8

REPLACING GERMAN GOODS

BOARD OF TRADE CAMPAIGN ' EXHIBITS IN DOMINIONS. A. and N.Z. Cable. WASHINGTON. Sept. 17. The authorities are advised that a collection of 8000 samples of Austrian and German products has arrived in Canada in order to see which articles Canadian manufacturers can replace. The British Board of Trade is making several such collections, which will be sent to the colonies and dependencies in order to form a world-wide trade combination against Germany.

ON ACTIVE SERVICE. NEWS OF NEW ZEALANDERS. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS. [FROM OT)K own correspondent.] LONDON. August 15. Brigadier-General E. W. C. Chaytor was personally responsible for. the first discovery of the Turkish concentration for the new attack on Egypt. General Chaytor was up in an aeroplane as observer on a reconnaissance, and ho discovered a great body of Turkish cavalry close to Katia. Thence onward tho concentration steadily developed, leading up to the battle. Major W. .Morrison, who lias been acting D.A.A. and Q.M.G. to a brigade in France, has been invalided to England with nervous breakdown. Ho is at present in tho convalescent homo for New Zealand officers, at Brighton, and expects to return to New Zealand. Colonel Standish is having a few days' leave from France. Mrs. Standish lias recently arrived in England ' from New Zealand, having travelled by way of Panama, and spent a short time in Canada. Lieutenant L. May and Second-Lieu-tenant W. A. Gray, have been discharged from the Second London General Hospital, and arc now on leave.

Chaplain-Captain P. Dore is at the convalescent camp at Hornchurch; he has been in various hospitals in the United Kingdom almost continuously since he received his wounds in Gallipoli a year ago. Flight Sub-Lieutenant J. Anthony Carr, R.N.A.S. (Auckland) has been promoted to flight-lieutenant. Corporal Walter Henry Park, of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, is gazetted to a commission in tho Imperial Army.

Captain T. N. Holmden, Auckland, is now adjutant. Mr. Sidney Wallingford, tlhe son of Major J. A- Wallingford, has arrived in London, and intends to join the Artists Rilles, with the view of qualifying for a commission.

Mr. Gilbert G. Clark, Auckland, ha been allotted a commission.

Dr. J. R. Boyd, Mataura, has just been awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in the field. Dr. Boyd has held a lieutenant's commission in the R.A.M.C. for the past ten months.

The despatches from Sir George Smith, Governor of Nyasaland, dealing with the operations in that territory, favourably mention Lieut.-Commander G. H., Dennistoun, R.N., son of Mr. G. H. Dennistoun, of Peel Forest, Canterbury. It will be remembered that this officer received the D.8.0. for his part in the operations on Lake Nyanza, including the destruction of the German gunboat Herman von Wissman. Sir George Smith refers to the excellent work done by Lieut.-Commander Dennistoun and the Naval Contingent, which he broudit to tho notice of the Admiralty. Lieut.-Colonel Hawthorne, commanding the military force, also writes:—"l would also request that the services of Lieut-Commander G. H. Dennistoun, R.N., may be brought to the notice of the Lords" of tho Admiralty. In addition to the admirable manner in which he carried out the expedition to Sphinxhaven on May 30, 1915, his cordial cooperation at all times has been invaluable in overcoming difficulties." ■ ,

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