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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17503, 20 December 1918, Page 5

News has been received by Messrs A. G and D. A. M'Kay, Albion Hotel, Napier", that their younger brother, Rifleman A. P. M'Kay, died from wounds in .France on November 4. Rifleman M'Kay left New Zealand with tho 11th Reinforcements, and was in-the 2nd Battalion of tho Rifle Brigade. A fe\y niontlis previous to his deatu he passed an examination, aud was in charge of a. Lewis machine gun, where he reccive'd wounds which- resulted fatally. Previous to enlisting he was in partnership with his brother in tho Empire Hotel Christchurch. Rifleman M'Kay was the youngest son of the late Mr Angus M'Kay of Hyde.

Representative Snell, of New York, sa-vg that because of restrictive Federal waterpowor laws, only 8 r>er cent, or 10 per cent, of the 60,000,000 horse-power available for development in tho United States has bet'.i utilised.

Stoker H. Tragey was a fleet reservist when ho went to New Zealand in 1909 (writes our London correspondent). Called up on tho outbreak of war, he joined H.M.S. Philomel and remained in her through tho Samoan episode and the transport of the Main Body to Egypt. In the Eastern Mediterranean tho Philomel landed a small force at Alexandretta in January, 1915, and it was here that the first New Zealand naval ratings fell in the war. After participating in the action on the canal the following month the vessel went to tho Persian Gulf and tho Rod Sea, and mado frequent landings, returning to New Zealand in March last year. _ Mr Tingey then went to England and joined an ice-breaker. While in her he saw service in Archangel and' on tho Murnran coast, including tho operations necessary to liberate refugees from tho former place. Several times they had collisions with Bolshevist armed -seeseU,