NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18947, 19 February 1925, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

[FROM OtTR OWN CORRESPONDENT. 3 LONDON. Jan. 8. At the last capping ceremony, in the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh, the principal, Sir A. Ewing, K.C.8., conferred degrees upon 115 graduates. Among those admitted to the degree of Doctor cf Medicine were Mr. L. C. L. Averill, son of the Bishop of Auckland, and Professor A. Jf. Drennan, who holds in New Zealand the Chair of . Clinical Pathology at Otago University. Dr. Drennan was awarded a gold medal for his thesis, "Studies on Goitre in Now Zealand." At the present time Dr. Averill is junior demonstrator in the anatomy ;v*partment, and is doing some post-graduate work in surgery. The Scotsman reminds its readers that, two years ago. "Mr. L. O. L. Averill was captain of the University Rugby football team." He hopes to bo back in Auckland toward the end of the year. The retirement, with the rank of brigadier-general, of Colonel A. E. Panet, a graduate of the Royal Military College, Canada, is gazetted. This officer recently gave up the appointment of chief engineer on the headquarters staff of the Northern Command in India, which carried the temporary rank of colonel-commandant. He served in a similar capacity in the late war with the Australians and New Zealanders, and with the 22nd Corps in France. Another old friend of the N.Z.E.F.. Major H. L. Bingay, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Royal Engineers, from January 1. Colonel Bingay, who is also a graduate of the Royal Military College, Canada, is at present doing duty in India. During a portion of the late war he was commanding Royal Engineers. New Zealand division. Colonel C. W. Gwynn, Royal Engineers, is another British Army officer of whom many New Zealanders will be interested to hear. He has been promoted to the rank of major-general from January 1. This officer was on the instructional staff cf the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and has many friends in the New Zoaland military forces. It is officially announced that two ]New Zealand candidates have been declared successful at tho examination for naval cadetships, namely, A. J. P. Plugge (Auckland Grammar School) and J. A. Jones. They will join the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. A cadet who has successfully secured a first-class pass in the passing-out examination from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, is Richard G. Tosswill. Mr. A. B, Taylor, son of Mr. A. Taylor, Morningside, upon whom was lately conferred/the decree of M.A. at Oxford University, is still a lecturer at Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, whither he went about four years ago on the completion, at Meron College. Oxford, of his N.Z.E.F. Scholarship. For the past fifteen months Mr, Taylor has been an officer in the Durham University Officers' Training Corps, and he was adjutant in last summer's camp at Fleetwood, near Blackpool. The rest of the summer he was travelling in Switzerland and Italy, His many friends will be on the look out for "Florice and Blanchefleure," a thirteenth century English Komance of tho East, which Mr. Taylor completed recently, and which is now in the hands of the Clarendon, .Oj-Jortk