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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 253, 20 July 1921, Page 8

A London correspondent writes under date of June 3:—"When the war broke out, Captain Ernest A. Fisk (Wellington) was Th 'lndia, so he joined up, and was given a commission in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers. He saw two years' service in Mesopotamia, was twice mentioned in dispatches, and was promoted to the rank of captain for distinguished service in the ffi?ld. From the date of joining up until the end of last May, Captain Fisk was with the Supply and Transport Corps. IJo is in England just now, on holiday leave, but bo is presently going out to New Zealand, with Mrs. and Miss Fisk. Passages have been secured by the Athenic, to sail about tlie end of June. Captain Fisk is taking with him some very fine specimens of poultry. After very careful study he has selected Rhode Island Reds for New Zealand. AH of them are pedigree birds, and among them are some full sisters to a pen of six Rhode Island Reds (one cockerel and five pullets) which are at. the moment loading in the national egg-laying test 1920-21 at Bentlev England, with a score of -110 to their credit for the first live months of the test. It is his idea to start a small poultry farm in New Zealand.