NEW ZEALAND VISITORS.

Auckland Star, Issue 291, 9 December 1925, Page 16

NEW ZEALAND VISITORS.

i |N THE EMPIRE'S CAPITAL ! PRINCE AND BIG BROTHER i BOYS. DUKE OF YORK'S NEW HOUSE. i (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, November 3. The Prince of Wales showed hie genuine sympathy with the Big Brother kchemc by inviting the first party of toys, 150 all told, leaving for down VBder" to St. James' Palace yesterday. These boys gathered at Australia House, where they—no, not entrained—but got on board motor buses and drove to that Royal Palace so redolent of history—an experience before setting forth for life in democratic Australia. I It is now officially announced that the puke and Duchess of York have taken purzon House, Curzon Street, Mayfair, as a v.-inter residence, and will move in io-morrow. White Lodge is a little too distant from London for the numerous winter engagements which they hope to 'fulfil. Curzon House is an excellent headquarters for entertaining. In addition to its central position, it has a good suite of reception rooms on the first floor. As mansions go, it is compact and easy to run. In the days iwhen Eari Howe was in residence there pt was the scene of many brilliant functions. ! Sir James Allen, who struggled with a •severe cold most of the time he was at !the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, and was still far from well when he made the second visit to attend ■the Permanent Mandates Commission meeting is still indisposed. He is, however, able this week to pay a short visit daily to New Zealand House to attend 'to urgent business. Mr. M. J. Reardon, who for the last ' two years has been on the staff of the New' Zealand section of the Britieh Empire Exhibition, has contributed , an article on "Industrial Arbitration' , to hhe "Irish Statesman" on the title page, •in which his and "the names of George JEussell, the Irish.poet, who is editor, .'and W. B. Yeats alone are shown. The Jeditor of the "Irish Statesman' has lasked Mr. Reardon,to write further I "Co-operation ;iu.;«New Zealand and lother subjects. ';.' ... , ..'. • ~v-*a■- ■ ' Mr. Bernard .Goodman, of Auckland, iis now on the Continent on a business itour, which will embrace not only the I nearer countries, but Russia. He is to imeet his sister in Switzerland, and they (will return through France, on their way jback to London. . ! Mr. R. A. Watson, of Auckland, is a guest-this week of Lord Rosse at Heaton Hall. Being keenly interested in education and welfare * work, he has visited institutions in many parts of the world. None impressed him more than the Margaret McMillan School, the 'pioneer of its type in England. Next month Mr. Watson leaves for a tour of •'the United States and Canada. In Winnipeg he will "be the guest of Major