ON SERVICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16590, 13 January 1916, Page 6

ON SERVICE

(Fbom Otje Own Correspondent.! LONDON, December 7. Very great regret will be felt at the unfortunate illness of Captain T. E. Donne, Record Officer, which has come at a most inopportune moment. For months past he has had a strenuous time, and not feeling very fit at the beginning of last week he was prevailed upon to spotid a few days quietly at home. Unfortunately, the proposed rest came too late. On Wednesday he was confined to bed, and it is probable that his absence from the Record Office may bo prolonged for two or three weeks. In the meantime, Major T. H. Dawson, A.M.R., has assumed control. Lieutenant J. B. Anderson, R.E., who has been in Flanders for the last seven months, ia in London now on a week's leave. Some weeks ago the name of Lieutenant G. S. Bogle, R.E., appeared in the casualty list 'from the Dardanelles. Details of his death have now been received. Lieutenant Bogle was going out to the wire entanglements beyond tne trenches, when he was shot in the stomach, his death taking place next day. ■ Mrs T. Bassett (Christchurch) has left London for Weymouth, where her son is in camp, and while there she will help with New Zealand work locally. Subsequently she hopes to become attached to the New Zealand Hospital at Walton-on-Thames. Mrs R. W. Wilkinson (Christchurch) has reached London with the object of joining a detachment of the British Red Cross Society. She hopes to be sent to a hospital in Egypt. Meanwhile, Mrs Wilkinson ia leaving for Weymouth, where she expects to be able to find some useful work to do in connection with the New Zealand base camp. Flight Sub-lieutenant Norman R. Davenport (Auckland) has been transferred to the Ea6tchurch Flying Squadron, after having qualified at the Royal Naval Air Station, Hendon, for his pilot's flying certificate on a Grame-White biplane. He will probably be stationed at Eastchurch for a few weeks before leaving for the front. Flight Sub-lieutenant F. C. C. Calder, R.N.A.S. (Auckland), is confirmed in his appointment for temporary service. Mr Ray L. Price (Auckland) has left for Salonika. He has taken up work with the British Red Cross Society, and he expects to be in the Balkans till the end of the war. Mr Arthur Martin Charman (Masterton) is another New Zealander who has joined the Royal Naval Air Service. He came by the Rotorua, and has had a few weeks' holiday before settling down to war work. Mr C. E. Blayney (Hawera) is working at the Daimler Aircraft Factory in Coventry. He has put in an application to the Admiralty to join tho Royal Naval Air Servico, and he is awaiting the reply of the commission before which he has appeared. He expects, to remain on this side of the world till the end of the war. Gunner L. E. Barrett, N.Z.F.A., of Dunedin, arrived in England by tho Aquitania on August 23, and was sent to King George's Hospital; ho remained there for six weeks, and then had a fortnight's furlough in England and Scotland. Gunner Barrett is now at Weymouth, and expects to return to the front shortly. THE BAKERS' AND PASTRYCOOKS' AWARD. TO THE EDITOR. Sxe,—ln your issue of to-day (Tuesday, January 11) there appears an advertisement for a strong youth to drive baker's cart and assist in bakehouse. I should like to draw the attention of the advertiser to clause 7 of the Otago and Southland bakers and pastrycooks' award, which reads as follows:—"A carter shall not be employed in any bakehouse t in connection with tho manufacture of any goods in tho baking trade, but a baker may deliver bread so long as he does not work more than the persci'ibrrl hours." In country districts it is difficult for the inspector of .wards to keep in touch with the observance of award®, and the bakers and pastrycooks' award is. by some country employers more honoured in the breach than in the' agreement. It is rare, however, to see an advertisement for the services of a person whoso employment would involve a contravention of an award.—l am, etc., Bakee. rWc arc under the impression that copies of the award have not vet been i circulated among tho employers.—Ed. O.D.T.]