NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 251, 23 October 1928, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL HOTES FROM

LONDON. ' • * DOUD UHisrooiA vnm COMING OUT NEXT YEAR. (From Onr Special Correspondent:) LONDON, September 20. Mr. H. W. S. Sams, some-time administrator of the Save the Children Fund; successively in Russia, Greece and Alba- ; nia, who is a New Zealander, and Mr. K. de Watteville, editor of the "Revue Internationale dfe l'Enfant," have openedi an office in Geneva with the object of : undertaking inquiries and doing research work for societies, organisations and individuals interested in international questions. They will also act as repre-; sentatives, permanent or temporary, for J organisations which do not wiqh to incur; the expense of maintaining an independent office in Geneva. Further information may be obtained from Messrs. de Watteville and Sams, 31, Quai du Mont Blanc, Geneva. ]

Captain F. A. Hemming, who has just retired from the New Zealand Shipping Company, has spent forty-eight years: at sea and estimates that he has travelled 3,000,000 miles. Captain Hemming, in an interview, said that his father went to- sea when he was a boy and joined the Honourable East India Company. He obtained his masters certificate and applied for the post of com? inandcr of the first P. and O. steamer. Because he did not get it he left the sea and liecame a barrister, later a K.C., and afterwards a county Court judge.' < Captain Hemming says: "I joined the Canadian and Australian Royal Mail Steamship Company, and sailed 'between Sydney and Vancouver for fifteen years. I was first an officer and then a com* mander of the s.s. Miowera, and in that ship I sailed a million miles. When the company was sold I joined the New -Zealand Shipping Company and sailed between London and New Zealand, and' I remained with them until I retired. In the last twenty years I have only been in two ships. I was at sea all : thr/mgh the war and I never saw a raider, a submarine, or a mine; in fact I never saw the enemy in the afar or under the water."

The Earl of Liverpool, who, since lis term of office as Governor-General of New Zealand has always retained a warm affection ior New Zealand and New Zealanders, is proposing to vi: it the Dominion early next year. L«dy Liverpool, whose recolleotions of life there are equally pleasant, is accompanying Lord Liverpool.

Mr. Justice Herd man, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Herdman, left London for Paris a fortnight ago. They are now. in the South of France, where they will remain until the beginning of October, when they return tq England. Mr. Oliver Farrer, a well-known citizen of Hamilton, eldest son of the late Matthew G. Farrer, died suddenly of heart failure at Congove, Kennington, Oxford, on September 16, 1928. He bad been in improved health of late, and his tend was quite unexpected. The funeral service was held at St. Aldate's Church, Oxford, on September 19. New Zealandera present were Meadames Carr and Steven*; son and Mr. H. O. Nolan and Mr. E. Earle Taile,

Mr. J. C. Wilson, of Dunedin, formerly in the New 'Zealand railway service, ia now on a visit to the Old Country. He ileft Auckland last May, travelling by the Canadian route, and it is worth while I putting on record that he, as a railway* man, considers the Canadian railway*; better than those of the United Statteß. Mr. Wilson is at present on a visit to friends near Manchester.

Mr., and Mrs. 6. W, Allsop, of Auckland, Who started out on a world "tour in July of Hast year, are at present the guests of Mr. A. M. Turnbull, of Gosforth, Newcastle. Mr. Alsop, interviewed by >a North of England paper, says: "I have retired from practice, and am undertaking this trip for pleasure before I get too Old." He reckons that it will take him two years and a-qiiarter to complete his tour, during -which period he will have covered 40,000 miles by land and sea. The most interesting part of his journey to date has been the trip across from Adelaide to Perth, in West Australia. With only a camel track for a guide most of the way, his Packard car, an American make, left Fowler's Bay with 12 tins of petrol, each containing four gallons, for the first petrol station -sis hundred miles away. This was reached ta safety, after a hazardous journey. A sand storm was encountered, and -in the bush snakes 10ft in length stretched across his path— and paid the penalty for interference. A Scottish farmer on the .desert presented Mr. Allsop with a camel, which was useful for pulling the car out of sand drifts, "but had eventually to l>e left behind. -In South Africa 'they motored from Durban to Pretoria, Bulawayo, Victoria Falls, and back to Kimberley alid Captoxvn. The ear in which the tourists are travelling , which has passed through the States of .Australia and South Africa, thence to Engla-nd, is ecfuipped for sleeping, has an automatic pump attached to the engine, and an electric fan for keeping off the -mosquitoes in the tropics. Mr Allsop left Birmingham for New Zealand when he was 10 years of age, and left Newcastle on September IS, afterwards visiting Ireland. He will then visit Franco and Italy for the winter months, and will sail for Canada in April next year.

Mr. J. C. Hmon. who is staying at the Piccadilly Hotel, is here as representative of the firm of Messrs. Frank .Tagger and Co., leather merchants, of Auckland. He is making a trip through England and Scotland on their behalf. Mr. Hewson sailed from Auckland by the Aorangi on July 31, and travelled through Canada and the United States en route. He expects to return by the Orama about November 16.