PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 184, 4 August 1913, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

irsrw sealantsshs abroad. (From Our Special Correspondent.) LONDON, .lune 27. Xbe Hon. Thorn.>:- Mackenzie is effectincr imporwtH change-- in the organisation and control of the Produce Department of the High t omraissioner's oilier. Jir H- C. Lamcron. who for many years Lr filled l if p.vition of produce comlias relinquished the rharflf, and iii? ri'Jt v ! ' ! in ,llture br discharg■l tv tho liovcrnmen" vterinary ollioer i" london. Mr Airxander Crabb, JI.K.C.V.S.. and Mr Wrighl. the recently"appoinw.i Government produce inspector At present t!irse prntlemen have their qßiccs in Holborn. but they will sliortlv them to the head office ju .Victoria bireet. Mr Cameron, it is understood, will devote his time to lecturing in tha country on the advantages offered by New Zealand to settlers and others. ! Hiring his reign at the Produce Drparv-ruiu MrCameron aas ?pent quite a.'bia s<if" of bis lci.-;ir>- time in lecturing p,i »iv Zi-aland. >o in- new role wiii

not i-onio to I'ini. and his familiarity «ith the in." and outs of \.lv.produci , tr.icie will I" , -i useful a-sset to him as «. Uvturer. uspeiially when facing audience i-omposeil chiefly of people onin agricultural and pastoral pursuits.

Mr Co.in Gilray, who came over to England >ix year- aero as n Rhodes Scholar, and who ?o greatly distinguisb.'ed Jliaifel.' in football over here, hiis been called to the Bar, and leaves on bi> 1 "return to Duncdin by the Kotofua next week.

Mr Farq-Qhar Touaß. the well-known yew Zealand has sailed for South Africa on a three- months' tony.

Caller- at. thr Hijii <-ummissioner's offices thi* week include the iollowirvß: —

Mr A. Bcvinf. of Auckland; Mr A. Davis, Wanganiii: Dr.. .Mr?, and Miss Hope "Lewis. Auckland-. Mr. Mrs. and Miss Barraud, Palmber?ton North; Mr and Mrs Price. Christchurch : ilra \V. -'.. -Miss, Miss M., TMiss W., and ilr \V. B. Butler. Wellington: the Very Key. Dean McKenna. Masterton: the Rev. Thomas McKenna, Pahiatua; S. F. G. Mo-rrie. Dunedin; ilessn G. A. and Peter Robertson, Auck.Jand: Mr W. 0. and >!rs J. M. LovellSmith. Christohuroh; Mr and Mrs CJ- K. ■Croll, Christdiurch and H-awte's Bay; "Hr and Mrs Adolphus Davis, Atickland; Mr D. F. Deiuichy, Westport: Mr K. M. and Mrs H. Barrance. Karangahake; and Mr and Mrs and Mr B. Price. Auckland.

ilr and -Mrs Goodson. of Auckland, •reached England in May. having visited tbe. Grand Rapids, Victoria. Vancouver, Detroit, and "Sew York en route. They are now siayinir at Harrogate for a month, thence go to Scotland for another mont'ii. returning to Clifton. Devonshire, and Cornwall, and leaving Plymouth on November 7th for Nev 'Zealand. Thry hqpe to reach Auckland on December 2*til. Major .lo'iin Whitney, of Auckland. ha> •: -conrc over to rrplnilil to jilarr hi.? prajldson "for a mur.r in thr . Royal Arsenal . at ■ W-oolwii-l). and a term of trainin..' h. >J-FCtbwthe Artillery; and incidentally to. ■ himself ■have -h »ea.son of- with v - 3lis frion'H. He is at present stayinjr at East Melbury, in Shaftcebury. Sew l> sending twelve delegates to the Worlds Sunday School Convention, which comment-t'S at Zurich r cn J.uh* r>11». Previous eonvontions have ■'• taken place at .lernsalem, Rome, St. ''lotris, and Ix>ndon. but it is confidently • expected tbnt. the c-imin™ will lbs the most pffrctivp of tbc series. Brigadier-flrnera.! R. H. Davies. C.8.. "sas m command of his brigade on tbe occasion of the visit of the President of "the French Republic to London.

" The Rev. Albert C. Lawry, of St. John's, Ponsonhy. and Mrs Lawry, bad a delightful voyage across the Pacific in the Makura. and spent a month in Canada and America, en route to England. After staying ten days in London they crossed to Ireland. Mrs La.wry's Krthplace. where they attended thr. Irish Methodiiit Conference, as Mew Zealand delegates. The visitors intend spending a further fortnight in North Ireland, and then propose visiting Devon, Cornwall, and Scotland. A trip across Europe follows, and they leave Xaples by the Otway for ?Cew Zealand at the end of the year. "Everywhere." 3£r Lawry records. Ye have been received -with a very abandon of hospitality." He will be the official representative from Xew Zealand a.t the British Wesleyan Conference to be held in Plymouth in July, and Xew- Zealand's depu-tation-at the Missionary Centenary celebrations.