PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17320, 5 December 1921, Page 11

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME

QUROWK CORRESPONDENT.) ' LONDON, October 27. axa 7 friends in New Zealand of Ndigan will learn with, regret months ago' he. experienced seizure which has incapacitated "him from work jn his northern parish .rector of ford, Northumberland. jVVitJi Sirs Nelijgan he is at Scarborough, bracing and beautiful. resort 'on coast, which, on his re--Ijjfrn ftom New Zealand some years ago, much to restore bim to health. *Th§;change there and the medical MWtjneßtare again proving beneficial, Ntfigan likes to see friends of days in New Zealand, for he still Mwtaios mkny pleasant recollections iStesis life, iu the Dominion. TJntil the year, at any rate, he will Scarborough, and then ho, «rajfo ;-jw ba > well enough to travel Pt-'ia';announced Wiat the Bey. H. vioar of Bucks, g^- ? an invitation from the and he will leave for New Intend 'in December. The Jiving of is in the gift of. the Earl HPae 'death is announced' of the Rev. jjgotl Richard Samuel Hasaard, canon BSjdeiftiary and sub-dean o{ Traro and rector of Truro. KjSf'flbout five years Canon Hassard was ■witnckland as incumbent of St. Mat■Kwft, hut Mrs Hassard's health necesr Kfed their return to England. _He K.accepted the charge of Holy Trin-

ity, DaJston, where he worked with marked success for 14 years. Surgeon-Lieutenant-Commander J. A. Watson, R.-JT., has been appointed to H.M.S. Laburnum. This officer ber longs to Wellington, pnd wthe son of Mr and Mrs William Watson, of the Terrace. In 1914 he was at Haslar Hospital, and during the war he held various appointments in th© He was in Belgium with the siege guns, nnd then for two years hej™ s " . the No. 1 Wing of the R.N.A.S. at Dunkeroue. Recently he was in H.M.S. Woolwicß, a depot ship to destroyers. In 1920 Dr. Watson married Miss M. Dick f daughter of Mr and Mrs M. Dick, of Auchmillan, Campbelltown, Argyllshire. /T _ Mr W. Hutchens, Mus. Bar. (Hawera) spent an enjoyable summer as first violin with the Weymouth Municipal Orchestra, as well a? appearing as a vocalist at their concerts. He came to England a year ago for professional experience and to visit relatives. With Mrs Hutchens and their two sons,' he hopes to leave for New Zealand by the Remuem early in he contemplates settling down in Wanganui to practise his profession. Mr Frank Hutchens, the well|oiown pianist, is giving a series of recitals in London next month. At the request of tho Royal College of Music, Hehaa recently acted as adjudicator for their, scholarship examinations—an honour which to much appreciated. Lieutenant-Colonel Hector G. Reid. who waa attached to the New, Zealand Division' for four years during the war, is serving nov in Mesopotamia (Bagdad) as A-A. and Q.M.G. to the 1/th Division. He left New Zealand witn the Main Body, and was for a long time aflier the Anzac landing on Galli-

poli Peninsula. In recognition of liis work, there as D.A.Q.M.G., he was made Bt. Lieutenant-Colonel, and later he was A.A. and Q/M.G. of the New Zealand Division in France. The' 17th •Division is to be disbanded at the end of this year, when Colonel Reid will ! return to England to rejoin Mrs Reid, who has been staying for the past year in London, making her headquarters at 2 Granville Place, Port-man Square. Her daughter is at school at Winchester, and her son is at a preparatory school., Before going to Mesopotamia, Colonel Reid had a year's service as A.A. and G.M.G. to the British Mission under General Holman, and he had some verv interesting experiences during Denikin's and General Wrangel's campaigns in South Russia. Mr John Beveridge (Wellington) has returned t-o London from a six week's Continental tour, which embraced Holland, Belgium, Paris., Switzerland, Italy (frgm Milan to Naples), Southern France, and back to Paris., He. saw 1 something of the battlefields both of Belgium and France. Mr Beveridge lias gone for a short tour in Scotland, and on November 16th he will join the Adriatic for New York, en route to the Journeying again to New York, he will go to 3lontreal, Quebec, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and 'Vancouver, connecting with the Niagara on January 14th. New Zealand should be reached at the beginning of February. The party accompanying Mr and Mre Edward Gi;ay to New Zealand—the second tour organised by Mr Gray, consists of Mr and Mrs N. Saurin, 3lr and Mrs John Morgan, the Misses M. and W. Morgan, Mr and Mrs Richard Irrin, Mr and Mrs J. Bowmaker, Mr and Mrs Andrew Hope. Mrs Roumieu, Mrs

A. Riley, Mrs J. M. Waltnsley, lire E. L. Mitchell, Miss Gertrude Tborp, Miss M. E. B. Macfarlan, Miss J. A\ illiauison, Miss Edith Praukerd, Captain B. H. Freeman, Mr W. Walton, Mr H. G. Claikson, Mr E. P. Ridley, Mr W. H. Briudley, Mr R. E. Kennedy, Mr G. Kendrick, Mr Viv MacKinnon. The travellers go by the Xaldera this week.