NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20280, 4 July 1931, Page 11

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM j LONDON. (JTEOU OUR OTTS COHMSrOKDtSS.) LONDON, May 29. Naval gazettings include three new appointments for Captains, to take effect from August next. One of these refers to Captain J. S. M. Eitchie, who is to join the Admiralty Staff as Director of Training and Staff Dutiss Division, where he will relieve Captain O. C. Cochrane. Mr S. E. Whitley, was was a leader of the party of - British farmers which toured New Zealand a year ago, has received from Lord Bledisloe a letter of warm appreciation of the gift of one hundred guineas by the British Dairy Farmers' Association, and of the contribution of £123 from the British Empire Fanners' Party for the earthquake sufferers in Hawke's Bay. In a letter to the High Commissioner, Mr Whitley remarked that it had been his lot to "send the hat round" on many occasions, but never before had he experienced such whole-hearted giving. "The gift of the Dairy Farmers' Association was absolutely spontaneous," wrote Mr Whitley. "I had not even to ask for it. My suggestion was a cable of sympathy, but at once someone jumped up and said, 'Why not make it practical sympathy—one hundred guineas?' and the deed was done." Mr James Harrison (Auckland) and his son, Mr J. Neville Harrison, greatly enjoyed their trip to England, via Canada. They intend spending a few weeks in London prior to touring England and Scotland by motor-car. Again there will be a short holiday in London prior to a Continental tour, which will probably embrace Belgium. Germany, Switzerland, and France as far south as the Riviera. On September 10th they will connect at Marseilles with the Moldavia. Following a short stay in Sydney, Auckland should bo reached early in November. Mr J. A. Moyle (Wellington) and Mr J. Heriot Simons (lieriot) have an interesting tour planned, travelling in thoir own motor-car in Europe as well as in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In a fortnight's time they expect to leave to aee Franco, Bolgium, -Holland, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, on a tour occupying two months. Then, returning to England, they will go on [ to Scotland and Ireland. The travellers expect to leave Great Britain about [ November, to travel via Canada and the ! United States, and to reach New Zealand about the end of March. [ The 11th annual Musicians' Holiday and Vacation Course of the Training School for Music Teachers will be held : at Seascale, Cumberland, for four weeks } from the end of July. During the first ! fortnight, '• Mr Frederick Moore. | F.R.A.M. (Professor, Lecturer and Examiner, Royal Academy of Music; Examiner to the Associated Board) will give a course of ten lectures on pianoforte teaching. Mr Moore's lecture courses have been an inspiration and of immense practical value to a very large number of pianoforte teachers. The lecture courses are attractive and of practical usefulness, having been designed to meet in a direct' way, the I modern needs of all wlio teach music. The holiday aho provides opportunities for the enjoyment of a great deal of music—rehearsed and performed* communally, as well as in recitals. Lectures are delivered by a number of the leading authorities, and some deal with choral work, others with aural training, others with psychology, and others again with conducting. Mr D. M. Tombs was invested with the degree of Bachelor of Science-an l Engineering at the University of j London's recent presentation day in the ; Albert Hall. Mr Carl Euhen and Miss Ruheri (Dunedin) are in London. Their planned movements have been somewhat altered because Mr Euhen had the bad luck, while seeing the Tower, to fall on a slippery pavement and break his left arm. Fortunately, it is a clean break. The arm was set at once at Guy's Hospital, and progress is thoroughly satisfactory. Mr Euhen feel 3 it unfair that sometimes New Zealand people return home and criticise—inside Parliament as well as outside —the High Commissioner's Office in London. He said: "Our experience of the office is such that we could not possibly ask for anything more. We went there as strangers to the staff, we had no letters of introduction to anyone there. But in spite of this, all members of the staff whom we saw laid themselves out to do everything they possibly could and to make suggestions. They supplied us with maps of London and told us that whatever we wanted to know we were to be sure and ask, as information would always be available at any time we required it. No one could possibly do more for visitors than the staff at the High Commissioner's Office, the Reception Clerk (Miss FitzGerald) being . extremely efficient, helpful and courteous." During a tour of the Imperial Institute, Mr Euhen was much pleased to find the New Zealand section so adequately set up and equipped. He thought it remarkable that so small a country as New Zealand should be so artistically and completely represented in the galleries. He heard an Australian visitor complain that the Commonwealth show was not nearly so attractive as that of our Dominion. Mr and Miss Euhen will leave for the Continent as soon as the former has the permission of his doctor. It is 43 years since he has seen his native city of Hamburg. The tour will include Cologne, Mainz, Coblenz, Heidelberg, Darmstadt, BadenBaden, Nurnberg, Passau, Vienna, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, Leipzig. On September 17th, Mr and Miss Euhen will leave Antwerp for Montreal, and finally they will connect with the mailboat at Vancouver for Auckland. Mr W. Devenish (New Plymouth and Nelson) and Mr C. A. Eedworth, who are touring together, joined the Blue Funnel liner Nestor at Sydney. They disembarked at Durban for a 15 days' tour in South Africa, during which period they visited Durban, Johannesburg," Buluwaytf, Matoppo Hills, Victoria Falls, Kimberley and Cape Town. They travelled under the auspices of the Tourist and Publicity Department of the South African Railways, whose arrangements worked very well. At Capo Town the Ceramic was joined and Lon'ydon was reached on May 18th. Mr Devenish and Mr Eedworth expect to put in four or five months in the Old Land, seeing as much as possible of England, Scotland and Ireland before making a Continental tour. They think of returning to New Zealand via Singapore, Java and Torres btraits. N Mr George Kill, M.A. (lato of Christchurch and now on the staff of the Southland Technical College, Invercargill) arrived in London at the end of April. Since leaving New Zealand last Upcember, Mr Hill has visited Australia, Java, Singapore, China, Japan and the United States of America. In the last-named country ho spent two months studying various aspects of education. On arrival in England, Mr Hill went to Somerset to visit relatives in Bath and Wells, but he is back in London now to resume his work of observing English methods in

education. He expects to return to New Zealand in December. The Rov. H. R. Jeclcs, Mrs Jeclcs and their son (Auckland) spent six weeks in Bournemouth with Mr Jecks's sister, and then they c- me to London. In June, they will travel north and stay in Co. Durham with the Rev. F. A. Rainbow. During July, the English Lake District will be their headquarters, and in August they will b° in North Wales with friends. The travellers think of leaving England on September 2oth,on their way home, via Canada, reaching New Zealand about November Ist. Mr James Pycroft (Opawa) arrived by the Oronsay, and lio will leave on October 24th by the Orama, on his way home. Ho has been spending a month with relatives in Hampshire, and has planned a comprehensive tour of England and Wales. Mr and Mrs John Campbell (Wellington) are recent arrivals after a very pleasant journey, via San Francisco, Panama Canal, an' New York. They expect to spend most of the summer in Scotland with relatives and friends. Mr and Mrs Henry Shirley (Auckland) spent some months on the Continent. Disembarking at Naples, they were for some time in Italy before going on to Vienna; in which city they greatly enjoyed the musical season. Mr Shirley studied the piano and organ there, and later visited Buda Pesih. At present, he is studying in London, and will sit for his final examination for his Bachelor's Music Degreo at Durham University, next September. In the meantime, they have settled , down in a flat in Kensington, where they are much pleased to meet a number of New Zealanders who are studying here. Lately, they have seen the following students from Auckland: Miss Alma McCruer. Mr Birrell O'Malley (who has come from Milan). Mr Reg. Newberry (who has come from Vienna), Mr Harvey West (from Paris University) and Mr Ivon Fosollo (who has been working at Leipsig). Mr Shirley is hoping to give a pianoforte recital in London before he goes back to New Zealand. 4 The May issue of Toe H. Journal mentions that A. H. Deakins (Deaks), tho Warden of Bleak House, has left the Mother Country and gone chafing mutton up in the mountains of New Zealand. "Good luck to him,-too; we shall miss him very much indeed," comments the compiler of the Lancashire Marks' Committee Report. Mr. W. McMillan (Aucnland) was the only overseas representative who attended the annual movable conference of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows' Friendly Society, which opened at Scarborough a few days ago, under the presidency of Mr Robert Annis, North London, Grand Master. It is reported that the directors are proposing a grant of £250 towards the loss suffered by Hawke's Bay Lodges during the earthquake. The annual service was held at St. Mary's Parish Church, with the Bishop of Durham as tho preacher. A feature of Monday s session was the presentation by the Grand Master of the jewel given by Mr J. McLeod, of the New Zealand district, to the member who introduced the largest number of new voluntary members during 1930. The winner was Mr E. B. A. Mudd, of the Morton Hall Lodge, Cambridge, with 58 members. Tho Rev. Edwin Arthur Scott, of Bournemouth, late vicar of Cotes I Heath, sometime Archdeacon of ChristI church, who died on February 2tst, aged 80, left estate of the gross value of £1531, with net personalty £IOBB. Colonel and Mrs Robert Logan have, since returning from New Zealand in 1925, been living at Carnwath, Lanarkshire, the former having inherited the property which has been in the possession of his family for some centuries. Colonel Logan says it was a strange experience to return to Scotland after an absence of fifty years, but he, and Mrs Logan fitted into their niche at once, and they are thoroughly enjoying tho life, though occasionally they long for the Auckland climate. Their home is ttventy-fivc miles distant from Edinburgh, and they visit the Scottish capital at least once a week. There they meet quite a lot of New Zealand friends, Overseas House being a very much-used centre. Last week Colonel and Mrs Logan attended a garden party at Holyrood, and they expect to be present at a similar function in July which will be attended by the King. Tho Overseas League dinner to the Colonial Premiers last autumn was much enjoyed, and Colonel Logan hkd the opportunity of meeting 'Mr Forbes. Public work occupies a good deal of time, and as there is always plenty to do at Carnwath, Colonel and Mrs Logan do not often cross the Border. They were, however, up in London, recently. Mr and Mrs W. 11. Lampen-Smith (n6e Miss M. Balmer, of Raumai, Palmerston North) arc spending a few months, in. London. The former, who is in the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, is taking a refresher course here until the end of June. After that, until they leave for the Far East in the middle of September, Mr and Mrs Lampen-Smith will have a motor tour of England, Scotland, Wales, and possibly of France as well. Mr and Mrs W. B. Brittain (Auckland) have taken a flat in London-for the season, and later they will motor in the south, taking a house at Lulworth Cove, Dorset, for a few weeks in the summer. Mr and Mrs Brittain are on a trip of business and pleasure combined, and they expect to return to New Zealand towards the end of the year. Miss Beatrice Price (Auckland) is staying' with her sister, Mrs v. W. Lorigan, at South Kensingtdn. After a month in London she will travel in tho United Kingdom, and go to the Continent for a short visit prior to her depature for home, via Suez and Australia. Mr and Mrs G. Day and Miss x>. Day (Wellington) will be in London for a month before making tours in England and Scotland and on the Continent. Several months are to be spent in Southern Rhodesia on the retu *° journey to New Zealand, which should be reached in March next. Mrs Boorne (n&e Miss Anita Pagni, of Remuera) was living in the Midlands during tho winter, and' has recently come south after a tour in the English Lake District, whore the scenery is very charming in the early summer. The Scottish Lakes are next to be visited, then the Channel Islands, and in August she will have a house-boat on the Norfolk Broads. Towards the end of the year she" expects to go abroad. Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office have included: —Mr N. Mackenzie Miss N. E. Holloway (Epsom), Mr and Mrs W, J. Bardsley (Dunedin), Mr and Mrs R. W. Simpson and children (Timaru), Miss J. P. Hutchen (Wellington), Mr n-nd Mrs R. L. Macalister (Wellington.), Mr and Mrs J. Ince (Wellington), Sir Louis and Lady Barnett (Hampden, Otago), Mr and Mrs J. W. Mayor (Wellington), Mr E. H. Piper (Hawera), Dr. E. Denny G. Gillies (Palmerston North), Mrs M. Mackin (Wellington), Mr L. F. Clay (Lvall Bay, Wellington), Mr and Mr* J. I. Oag, Mr 1. Oag (Auckland, Mrs M. A. Zala (Hastings), Miss E. Williams (Wanganui), Miss E. McKittrick (Wellington), Mr J. E. McCale (Wellington), Mr and Mrs H. W. Armitage (Dunedin).