PERSONALIA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7077, 15 March 1910, Page 7

PERSONALIA

Lord Kitchener and party reached Dannevirko last night by motor from Napier. The journey to Wellington will bo resumed tiiis morning. On SundayDie partv were entertained at Maraekakaho sta'tion by Mr K. X). D. McLean, and on the return journey visited Sir William and Ladv Russell at Plaxmere. Coming back to town they broke the journey at Mr C. A. Hawkins' residence in Napier South, and Lord Kitchener appeared interested in an experimental aeroplane which ia being constructed there.

Mr C. N. Clausen has been appointed a member of the Palmerston North Liccyving Committee. Colonel Collins assumed the duties of Auditor-General, in succession to Mr J. K.' Warburton, as from yesterday. Messrs Konayne, Beattie, and Buxton, of the Railway Department, left for South last night on a visit of inspection. All the Ministers are in AVollington to-day, except the Hon. Geo. Fowlds, who is accompanying the Governor on his visit to the West Coast. Lieutenant Boull, of Dunedin, commander of the New Zealand teams which defeated Now South Wales in the Empiijp Match and the match for jthia Gordon Highlander' trophy, at Trentharn la3t week, left for the South last evening.

"I am very well and hearty, and not at all unhappy," said Mr Will Crooks, the genial ex-M.P. for Woolwich, addressing a laige crowd afc Poplar dock gate<i this week (writes our London correspondent under date February 4th). "Deputations o: sympathisers havo not left off calling yet since my defeat. I lost my seat, but. I have been transferred from a small constituency to a much larger one—the country." At tho annual distribution of prizes to the members of the Browning Settlement P.S.A. Brotherhood, Mr Crooks was presented with a silver medal bearing the inscription, "Will Crooks, Champion of the Poor." Mr J. A. Dawes, M.P., said the Walworth division had spe-ial reason for thanking Mr Crooks- for having been one of the first members of the London County Council to impress on that body the necessity of feeding half-starved school children.

Our London correspondent states that Dr Sydney T. Champtaioup,' the young New iiealander who has been appointed bacteriologist and lecturer in public health at Otago University, and health officer for Otago, has proved himself one of Edinburgh's most brilliant students. Dr Champtaioup went from Auckland to Edinburgh Diversity and carried ofl there nearly all tho available prizes and honours in the medical BohooltJ. In all he won eighteen prizes and medals, including the UctliStcnolarship, perhaps the most highly prized of all the medical honours at Edinburgh. In qualifying as M. 8., Ch.B., he passed each of the four professional examinations "with distinction." Later he qualified as Bachelor of Science in the department of public health, the two oourses for which embraces the work for the lesser qualification of Diploma of Public Health. He also holds the special University certificate in. the bacteriology and diseases of tropical medicines. Since his student days.Br Champtaioup has held hospital appointments in Edinburgh, Manchester and Cardiff, has revisited New Zealand as ship's surgeon, and for two and a half years has had teaching experience in practical pathology, bacteriology, and public health at the Usher Institute, Edinburgh University, besides conducting a private class in these subjects, attended each session by as many as fifty or 6ixty students. He has had public health experience under the medical officers of health at Edinburgh and in the country of Midlothian. At present he is employed as assistant to the Professor of Public Health, Edinburgh University, Professor Hunter Stewart, D.Sc.,. who says of him -. "His knowledge of the whole subject of hygiene is quite exceptionally good, and Tie is an excellent and painstaking teacher.' * I do not think there is anyone of his years who has had so magnificent a training lor the post as Dr Champtaioup, says a well-known medical man who has followed the Aucklander's career with interest for some years past.