HERE AND THERE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1409, 26 April 1917, Page 37

HERE AND THERE.

Mr. E. McPherson, of Singapore, has been spending a holiday in Auckland, staying at the Royal Hotel, and has now gone to Rotorua. * * * * Dr. N. Keith, medical officer to the Wairoa Hospital, who is leaving for the front shortly, has handed in his resignation. • * * * Lieutenant F. J. W. Stallard, of the Trench Mortar Section, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, well-known in Wellington and Palmerston North, has been awarded the M litary Cross for conspicuous bravery at the front. Dr. Marshall MacDonald, of Dunedin, who returned from Europe last year, has accepted the position of consulting neurologist to the New Zealand Military Hospital in England, with the temporary rank of captain.

A donation of £2O from the Nelson Jockey Club resulted in 80 cases of apples being forwarded to transports for the use of troops on their voyage, says the Nelson “Mail.” The suggestion emanated from a chaplain-cap-tain in a letter to Mr. W. W. Snodgrass, who took the matter in hand. * * « • Mr. E. T. Taylor, of Kilbirnie, has returned from a visit to Australia. * ♦ * * Sir Lyman Melvin Jones, president and general manager of the MasseyHarris Company, Ltd., died at Toronto, Canada, last week. Sir Lyman was a member of the Senate of the Dominion of Canada. * * * Sfc Mr. George H. Whitcombe, managing director of Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd., leaves shortly on an ex tended trip to America. Mr. Louis Whitcombe will take up his duties during his absence. • * * » At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand at

Wellington last week Mr. Harold Beauchamp was re-elected chairman of directors for the current financial year. An aeroplane of American manufacture, purchased by the Chinese military authorities for army use, has arrived at Swatow, China. A Chinese aviator, trained in the United States, has been engaged to operate it. JF sfc * Mr. E. A. Eva, manager for the Union Company at Fiji, is at present in Auckland. - • • « 9 Bishop Verdun, of Dunedin, has gone on a health trip to Rotorua. ♦ A 4? + Mr. E. H. Morris has resigned the position of traffic manager to the Auckland Electric Tramways Company, and will be severing his connection w'th the company early next month.

Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Kemp, of Gisborne, are visiting Auckland. * * * » Mr. John Cullen, 1.5.0., late Commissioner of Police of New Zealand, has been awarded the King’s Police Medal. *** * . Among the returned soldiers who arrived in Auckland recently was Bombardier Charles Murray, who holds the ten-mile running championship of New Zealand. * * * * It is understood that the price paid by an oversea firm for the Antarctic expedition ship Aurora, which was sold at Sydney recently, was £6OOO. * * * * A school for the practical education of hotel managers and other employees is to be established in Havre by the French Ministry of Commerce, with the co-operation of the municipal authorities of Havre and Trouviile. Students attending the school will be admitted as apprentices at Havre and Trouviile hotels.

News has been received that Lieutenant Edgar Hastings Cambridge, of the Royal Flying Corps, who has been on active service since the beginning of the war, has recently been engaged in War Office work in connection with the improvement of aero engines. Lieutenant Cambridge is the youngest son of the lata Mr. A. B. Cambridge, the well-known portrait painter of Christchurch, and Mrs. Cambridge, now of Stanley Bay, Auckland. T- * * * A PresT Association message from Brisbane records the death o. Mr. Edgar W. Walker, superintendent of the New Zealand Insurance Company for Australia and Tasmania. The late Mr. Walker was one of the oldest officers of the New Zealand Insurance Company. For some years he was manager for Queensland, and was then promoted to the position of superintendent for Australasia.

Professor Clark, of Harvard University, has been appointed temporary professor of physics at the Victoria College, vice Professor Marsden who has gone to the front. He is expected to arrive in Wellington at the end of June. * * * * When a French airman has brought down five German aeroplanes he .-auks as an “ace,” and is entitled to have his name mentioned in the official communiques for further exploits. Only twenty airmen have so far gained this honour. 4c $ ft One of the best-known members of the legal profession in Auckland, Mr. Malcolm Godfrey McGregor, ded suddenly last week at his residence at Takapuna, after a comparatively short illness. Mr. McGregor was born in Auckland, and was 53 years of age. He was the second son of the late Captain A. McGregor, founder of the McGregor Coastal Steamship Company, which was subsequently amalgamated with the Northern Steamship Company. Sir J. Newton Moore, Agent-General for West Australia, who has been acting as br’gadier-general commanding the Australian troops in England, has resumed duty in the Agent-General’s office, having retired from his military command. Sir Newton Moore’s term as Agent-General expired on March 23, but he will act till his successor arrives in London. Mr. J. D. Connolly, member for Perth, and honorary Minister, has been appointed to the post.

Several rainbow trout, varying from eight to 121 b. in weight, have been netted in Lake Hawea, Otago, this season. In past years these trout were usually secured near the mouths of the various streams, but they are now reported to be obtainable in almost any portion of the lake. * * * * Mrs. Verne Hargreaves, of Weston Road, Christchurch, has received ad vice from London (says the “Press”) that the name of her brother. SecondLieutenant Norman Cunningham, of the Royal Field Artillery, has appeared in the New Year’s Honours List' as mentioned in despatches for distinguished field service (in the battles of Combles and Morval). Lieutenant Cunningham is the youngest son of the late Mr. Peter Cunning ham, of Merivale. All Mr. Cunningham’s sons have enlisted. One has been in Gallipoli, one in Mesopotamia, and one in France. Miss Cunningham is doing war work in England. She has been for the last year a forewoman in Woolwich Arsenal. « * * * At one of the English Channel ports recently members of the Motor Boat Patrol who went from New Zealand met and presented Mr. C. J. P. Drewitt with a silver cigarette case and a fountain pen suitably engraved, in token of appreciation of the way in which he had looked after them on the voyage. Mr. Drewitt had been elected orderly-.sergeant for the voyage. He held classes cn various subjects, including gunnery and electrical practice, the knowledge of which the members found very useful when they started their training. Mr. Drewitt was also complimented by the Naval Authorities for the way in which he had safely brought the men to their destination. * « * * An Australian shipmaster. Captain Colin MacDonald, who has had much experience in the horse transport during the war, has been presented by the Indian Government with a souvenir of plate in recognition of “meritorious services.” Captain MacDonald, who is widely known in Australia, has made a special study of horse transport for many years, principally in the Indian trade. He was for a long period associated with the old Archibald Currie line, but since the absorption of that service by the British-India Company some years ago, has been in the latter employ.