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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2460, 13 May 1915, Page 4

Mr J. A. M'Kinnon will leave Christchurch next v.-eelc for the Old Country. Ho intends to sit for the.final examination of his medical course, and then to offer liis services for the front. •Vt the annual meeting of the Band of Hope Union in Auckland (states a Tress Association message), a proposal that Bishop Averill be vice-president caused some discussion. Mr. C. B. Kmg opposed iinv smoker being vice-president. Timid of' Hope Unions, lie said, were always stronglv against smoking as well as drinking. 'Several other speakers took a more liberal view. It was stated that one of the vice-presidents already holding office was an inveterate smoker. The Bishop was .duly elected, subject to his consent to\ accept the position. The chairman remarked that lie was afraid lie could not call the vote unanimous, since there was one dissentient voice. Nearly (3000 orderlies were sent to tho front by the St. John Ambulance As?eciation during the first two months of the war.