PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18157, 21 August 1924, Page 14

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

GOSSIP ABOUT NEW J ZEAL ANDERS. . j I.FBOiI OUB OWK COaaESPOrDKKT.J J LONDON, July 19. j Dr. G. J. Blackmore (Medical Direc- j tor of the Turberculosis Institutions at j Christchurch) is in Europe primarily on j a holiday, but he is naturally interest- | ed in the tuberculosis work that is j going on, and lp is looking into it J as opportunity dffers. En route to! England, Dr. and Mrs Blackmore and j their two daughters landed at Naples, j and spent a little time there, as well j as in Rome and Florence. In Switzer- j land Dr. Blackmore iooked a little ! into his special medical subject, and then had twelve days in Paris. Soon alter landing in England the travellers went to the North of Ireland to stay with relatives, and they have made their headquarters in Co. Down ever since. Dr. Blackmore has been enquiring into some tuberculosis matters in Dublin and in Edinburgh, and in the latter city lie has met the leading Scottish specialist. Next, by invitation, he attended, in London, the annual conference of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and then he accompanied Sir James Allen to Geneva to look into the Spahlinger method of treating tuberculosis. It was the High Commis- j sioner's request that he do this. Dr. Blackmore was at Nott'e ! Dame Cathedral on the occasion of the 1 unveiling of the tablet in honour of the British Empire dead. At the moment he is again with his family in Ireland. In a few weeks' time they will tour in Scotland, and then come south to London. Thev will leave for New Zealand, via Canadaj in October. ; Mr E. Nixon Westw'ood, who has ! been acting, as Trade and Produce j Officer in the High Commissioner's DeI partment since' last December, has, with the permission of the High Commissioner, accepted the position of Gen« eral Manager of the Western Samoa Estates, Ltd.,..a company which has been formed to take over the Crown Estates, which' have" been "administered by; the New Zealand Government since the beginning of the war. Mr Westwood was formerly in Samoa as a New Zealand Civil Servant. He came to London a year or two ago to look after Sainoan interests in t-lie Hifih Commissioner's Department. While in England he has studied the questioii of the disposal of copra and cocoa, and tropical produce generally. He will leave on August 2nd bv the Berengaria to join the Ventura at San Francisco on August 26th. Comments on Mr Massey's 12th anniversary of ofiW as New Zealand Prime Minister, include:—"The .Observer": "Mr Massev has another distinction hesides that of mere official longevity. He is the last survivor of the war Premiers ;of whom some are dead. but most are pondering in retirement whether, if they had done this or not done that, the state of Europe would be "better'or worse than it is." The "Sundny Times": "Mr Massey's 12th anniversary as Prime Minister of New Zealand was marked, by, the receipt of congratulations from all sections of the community, members of the Reform Party expressing entire confidence in him as their Leader." The "Bath Herald": "The Right Hon. W. F. Massey, one of Bnth's youngest Freemen, has held office longer than anv other Prime Minister living."

Air 0. E. (Christchurch) tliinks of spending about two years on this side of the world after an absence of forty-nine years from England. After this lapse of years he says he hardlv recognised London again. Mr Hoddinott has in mind a general tour of the United Kingdom, by motorcar.

Mr W. K. Nicholson . (Christchurch) ai»rived a few weeks ago from New York, after having seen a good deal of Canada. He has been on a pleasure trip, with a little business combined, and on Julv I9th he will leave for Sydney by the Orvieto. In congregation at Oxford a few days ago, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon the Rev. H. D. A. Major. Mr T. 0. Newnham (Christchurch) has been staying with friends in Leeds. He has taken his return passage by the Botorua for August 14th. Dr. J. W. Mcllraith, Inspector of Schools, has much appreciated the opportunities which have been given him of visiting all types of schools and training colleges in "jity and rural areas, both in Eriglyufl and Scotland. He and Mrs Mcllraith ■will be guests of the British Government at . the Grand Naval Review next week. They intend to leave .for New Zealand early in August, travelling via Switzerland and Italv, and joining the Osterley at Nanles on August 24th. Dr. C. S. Hk-ks (Dunedin), the holder of a Beit . Research Fellowship at Cambridge, has gone to America for part of the vacation. He crossed to New York as medical officer of one of the vessels of the Atlantic Transport Company. Dr. Hicks takes every opportunitv of meeting men eminent in the medical world, and of seeing the big institutions and hospitals. He will visit the Mayo Institute while he. is in the United States. But the main purnose of his trip is to cany out a mission on behalf of Sir William Dunn, of the Cambridge School of Bio-Chemis-try. He is going to bring back a strain of special mice that spontaneously develop cancer. The species is the result of eight vears' work by Miss Maud Sly, of the University of Chicago.