New Zealand.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 282, 7 May 1915, Page 5

New Zealand.

H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND. t ■ READY FOR ANY CALL. i _ Wellington, List Night. . Tie following letter has betti reserved 1 Irom Captain Lionel Halsey, C.8., by the Wellington brunch secretary of the SliVy League 1 "Very many thanks for yatif .■ letter of January 29th. I will be glad ' if ;yOU will convey to the Wellington braneli of the Nrtvy league my sincere thanks for their congratulations eont by you to the officers and men of this ship.' We fully realise how much we are thought of in the Dominion, and I trust t-int New Zealand will always have good reason to be proud of her ship. I can only say without any hesitation that all on hoard fully realise how the eyes of the whole of the dominion are on -us, and we are fully determined that, come what may, ive shall do our utmost for N6V Zealand and the Empire. 80 far the ship has never been sick or sorry, And since war was declared we have always heen ready for any call, w'Meh speak* volumes for the huihlers. When it came to chasing the Germans on January 24 she far exceeded any previous speed' and ' no harm was done, and if necessary we are ready to try and exceed that."

A TRANSPORT'S RECORD. • astouyopahor.se. , (By Wire. —Own Correspondent.) Wellington, Last Night. The transport which brought the invalided and discharged men hack to New Zealand has taken two lots of New Zealanders to Egypt, and is now preparing for a third voyage with troops, jlo'ses have heen tarried on each occasion, and the vessel has established what is probably a world's record by keeping losses down to about 1 per cent, on each occasion. Three horses were lost on the last journey round the world. Two died of strangles which tliey had contracted before they came aboard, & member of the ship's company told your correspondent, and the third' horse died of old age. " Yes, I am quite serious; * ft. just faded away. Senile decay was the verdict. The veterinary said it was thirty years old if a day. Perhaps it was a gift horse, I don't know." Th«r Toss of only three horses out of nearly three hundred 011 a voyage of some 9000 Trifles Tiartlv through the tropics is extraordinarily low, and those concerned are entitled to he pnuid of the aohieveinent. I was told that very much heavier losses had been incurred on some Imperial troopships on comparatively short' voyages.

, BRITISH FOR GERMAN". CHANGES AT SAMOA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Minister of Defence states that from May 1 British currency displaced (ierninn currency at Samoa. The change is a" st'ap towards Anglicising the island. Ocrman notes anil coin no longer hold good, but tfiey arc replaced by British notes and gold and silver and copper and postal orders. Anybody who desired to send money to a friend in Samoa can do so- throngh the New Zealand Port Officer, A branch of the Bank of New Zealand has also been established at Samoa; ' RECRUITING IN DUNEDIN. . Dtraedin, May 6. There is a marked increase in the number of recruits coming forward here. For the now unit and the seventh reinforcements fifi men presented themselves at the last bi-weekly examination, a record for the Dnncdin "Group. Should the'country districts do as well the position should be very satisfactory. The I act of the New Zealanders having been iii action seems to have had a stimulating effect.

INVALIDED MEN. , Wellington, May fl. The following members of the Wellington' Battalion invalided liome returned yesterday;:—Quartermaster-Sergeant J. Buick; Privates or Troopers, R. D, Cameron, .T. Jones, C. A. Lucas, W. J. Mcacham, J. D. Murphy, J. C. Owen, J. Richardson, P. Rosenbeek, A. A. SB. Teg- . » iter, Ji. iWelbv, K. C. Wood; I-ancc-Oor-poral W. Forrest. FOR TIIE FRONT. ' . The following men enlisted at Hawcrsv yesterday:— Archie Edgar Dale, Hawcra. Benjamin (J. Hart, Inglewood. Charles Kenny, Manutahi. Henry Christiansen, Patea. Thomas M. B. Williams, Patea. Vivian Horrocks, Patea. I Walter Young, Otakeho. & .lohn Stewart Cameron, Rawhitiroa. William H. Fake, Ertham. Frank O'Keefe, Klthain. Charles F. MeGcehie, Kapuni. Robert A. Law, Kaponpi. George Alfred llarrop, jnr., Piliama. Jos. McCarty, Auroa. Sidney John Walter Smith, Kltham. Harold Blackburne, Ingle wood. , H. H. Curtis, Juglewood. Norman M. McDonald, Eltham. Frederick A. Porter, Eltham. Frank ffm. Fnrnival, Manutahi.