NEW ZEALANDER HONOURED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 75, 21 December 1917, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDER HONOURED

Bl r KING OF SERBIA

Advice has been received by the Base Records Office tliafc His Majesty King Peter of Serbia has awarded the Medal for Merit and Zeal to 6/1332 Sapper Colin Lovell-Smith, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, for meritorious sen-ices rendered with the Salonika Expeditionary Force. Sapper Lovoll-Smith's noxt-of-kin is his father, Mr. W. S. Ijovell-Sinit.li, Riccarton, Christchurch.

ABOUT PASSPORTS

INFORMATION , - FOR TRAVELLERS.

Some additional information regarding tho passports required by persoiiE leaving New Zealand for various countries hns been obtained by the Government through the Foreign Office. Tho rules are particularly severe with regard to all countries in the wnr zone, and intending travellers should mako their intentions known to the Internal Affairs Department in ample time All persons about to depart for tho TJnited_ States of America are required, to fill in a form of declaration, obtainable at all permit oflices, and deliver at an American Consular Agency, together with three photographs on thin photographic paper, 2iiu. by 2iin., at least fourteen days prior to departure. Providing the information and referr ences furnished on the declaration are sufficient, the passport will be vised toy the American Consul-General at Auckland or the American Consular Agent at Wellington, *° vh°m the passport must Dβ presented at least three clays prior to embarkation. Persons nroceeding to China will not be admitted to that country unless they have in their possession passports with 4in. photographs of the holder attached thereto, signed by Chinese Ministers or Consuls, and stamped with seals of Legations or Consulates.