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New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9539, 22 December 1916, Page 3

Visitors to town staying at the Empire Hotel include: Messrs A. Burnett (Wanganui)j F. W- Tramger (Patea), F. S. Johns (New Plymouth), L. Stokes (Palmerston North), Jfi.-. Marshall (Opunake), J. S. Michaelis (Wanganui). Mr C. G. Wade, formerly Premier of New South Wales, and lately leader of the Opposition, who will shortly take up the position of Agent-General ur London in succession to the late Mr B. R Wise, left Sydney for Auckland yesterday in the Makura. Mr G. H. M. McClure, Commissioner of Lands, received news by the last mail that his son, Lieutenant Gordon Leslie McClure, who has been serving in Franco since April, has been promoted to the rank of captain. He is now attached to General staff as grenade officer. Hi- C. B. Rossiter, F.R.C.S., honorary surgeon to the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, has been appointed lecturer to the staff of the Auckland Hospital during the absence of Dr Casement Aickiu, medical superintendent, who is now in camp at Awapuni, prior to proceeding to the front as a member of the N.Z.M.C. Mr F. A. Macbean, who has been appointed assistant-manager of tho Auckland branch of the Bank of New Zealand has taken up his new duties. He has been in the service of the hank for a number of years, during which ho has been in charge of several of its branches, from time to time, and has been attached also to the inspecting staff. Mr Edward Kidson, who graduated with honours at Canterbury College, afterwards went to America and distinguished himself as a magnotician in the service of the Carnegie Institution at Washington. He went to England last year, and got his commission in November as temporary-lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. A separate nnit of the Engineers has recently been created for meteorological work in the field. This service in the eastern Mediterranean has been under the command of Captain E, M. Wedderbum, non. secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society, and Lieutenant Kidson is his second in command. Meteorological inquiries were originally initiated to study the circulation of the atmosphere, and they proved to be of very great value, not only to the Admiralty for the naval operations, hut also for troops in the field, where movements over a wide area depend very largely for their success on weather conditions. Lieutenant Kidson was educated at Nelson College. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Cold*, never fad), I* Bd,*