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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1525, 17 July 1919, Page 5

The Deputy-Mayor of Christchurch, Councillor J. W. Beanland, who has returned south after a visit to Auckland to meet his son, said he was much impressed with the concrete roadways in the northern city. “There is no question as to the lesser cost of their maintenance as compared with our tarred macadam roadways. However, there will be no possibility of Christchurch going in for concrete roads unless the money is raised by loan. If some of our main streets were laid in concrete I am sure that in the end it would be a paying proposition. They have had about six years’ experience of this class of road construction in Auckland, and after several years’ wear and tear all that has been found necessary in the way of maintenance has been a coat of tar and sand.”

The Hon. W. Pember Reeves, formerly High Commissioner for New Zealand, has resigned the post of Director of the London School of Economics, which he has held for the past eleven years. The Court of Governors, in accepting the resignation, have placed on record their appreciation of Mr. Reeves’ great services to education and the manner in which he maintained the reputation of the school.

Mr. Guy Haig, a gallant young man who was recently captain in the East Kent Yeomanry, and who has just died in a London nursing home, was a kinsman of Sir Douglas Haig. He was the eldest son of LieutenantColonel Arthur Balfour Haig, and the Hon. Mrs. Haig (daughter of the third Lord Herries), of Bemersyde, and 75 Elm Park Gardens. In October his brother, Captain Nigel Haig, M.C., R.A., married Miss Unity Moore, the well-known actress.

“I would like to say here that I believe that in the whole Army in France —and in this I am sure that I will be borne out by the Commend-er-in-Chief —there was no better, selfcontained or efficient division than that from New Zealand. It never knew what failure meant, and finished up its magnificent fighting record by the capture of Le Quesnoy on the very eve of the armistice. New Zealand, I am sure, realises how much she must owe to that very fine soldier, General Russell, who came out

in command of her mounted brigade, and took command of the division as soon as it was formed, and has commanded it throughout with such conspicuous loyalty and success. It was a great grief to me when the division left my immediate command, after having served for nearly two years under me, and I think I need hardly say that I have never lost my interest in and admiration for it.” —General Birdwood, speaking at the Australian and New Zealand Luncheon Club in London.