NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20419, 14 December 1931, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. • (most OCR own COEEESPONDEKT.) LONDON, November 5. . Miss Eileen Pope (recently on the [ staff of Wellington Girls' College) is . still in France taking a course of , lectures. ' -ft is announced that Miss Eileen • Driscoll, the Wellington soprano, who s has been living in Ireland for the past ; 18 months, has recently been broadcast- ' ing Maori songs from Dublin. So successful have been her contributions to ' the programme that she has been asked to sing again, and several dates have • been booked. ' Mr W. J. Heyting, who, after being ; admitted as barrister and solicitor in Wellington early in 1929, left for New York, recently arrived in England. Until he left the States he was assistant legal adviser in the Legislative Drafting Department of Columbia University, New York City, to the committee formed under its research council for the purpose of studying the whole law relating to liability for motor ( vehicle accidents. This is a very difficult and serious question in America, where there are annually some 30,000 motor vehicle fatalities and 1,000,000 lesser personal injuries each year resulting from motor vehicles. Mr Heyting contributed several articles to the American Bar Association Journal on the questions involved, while his name appears as author of a substantial part of the report being issued by the committee and circulated among all the American State Legislatures. Last June Mr Heyting qualified to practice law in New York, and at the present time he is gaining a little experience in tho solicitors' profession in London with the firm of Messrs Kenneth Brown, Baker and Baker, preliminary to practising on his own account. He is also studying for the degree of Doctor of Laws at London University. Political ; affairs in tho Mother Country are interesting him as well, and he associates his sympathies with the Conservative Party. Sir Heyting's name is fairly well known throughout the legal profession in New Zealand, and friends will be interested to have late news of him, and of what he has been doing since be left Wellington two and a half yoars ago. The Rev. G. Bird, Vicar of Rounton and Rural Dean of Northallerton, and Mrs Bird, have left for New Zealand, where they will be the guests of their, son-in-law and daughter, the Rev. \V. H. Johnson and Mrs Johnson, of Dunedin. They will return next Easter. Miss K. A. Macfarlane (North Cnnterbury) has taken a flat in London for three months. Later she hopes to go to the Continent. Miss Macfarlane travelled to England via Rarotonga, Tahiti, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and the Rockies. Captain and Mrs S. Gibbons are recent arrivals from India, with their small son. Captain Gibbons 'has been posted to the Adjutancy of the Bth Battalion, Durham- Light Infantry, and for the next four years his home will be near Durham. Mrs Gibbons is at present staying in Ireland. Two New Zealanders who have entered into resideace at St. John's College, Cambridge, this term are Keith Edward Bullen and Clarence M. Franklin—both from Auckland University College. They are graduates of the University of New Zealand, and have, entered Cambridge as research students. Mr Alan Thom (an old boy of Auckland Grammar School and a member of the staff of the Murchison District High School) will go to France to study the language, particularly old Anglo-French, in which he is specially interested. He is to be for a year on the staff of a school in Vcndome, as teacher of English conversation. New Zealand medical students at Edinburgh University this term are: John Guthrie, Sidney H. Gibbs, George B. Macgibbon, J. 11. Brownlee, A. W. Reeve, John C. Hislop, J. K. Elliott, B. F. Macfarlane, R. A. Elliott, and E. D. T. Lewis. Some are more advanced than others in their work. All will attend during the year 1931-1932. Among wills recently proved is that of Mr Roderick Morrison, of Lewis House, Grand Parade, Leigh-on-Sea, lately Marine Superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Federal Steam Navigation Company. The gross value of his estate is , given at £25,022 (net personalty £22,240). Miss Alma MoGruer (Dunedin) has returned to London from Vienna. She hopes to go back to Austria in tho spring to continue her. work there. Miss McGruer is highly appreciative of an hour which she was privileged to spend with William Backhaus, who has lately come back to London from New Zealand. He was extremely kind to his visitor, helping her with good advice anil with introductions. Backhaus made . enquiries after many people in New Zealand, said he always enjoyed his visits to the Dominions, and that he thinks the people are really musical. The concert halls in Dunedin are among tho best in which he has played. On November 21st, Miss M. T. Anderson (Auckland) will leave for New York by the Empress of Britain, and continue thence to Chicago and across Canada to Banff and Vancouver. She will join the Aorangi, and should be in Auckland at the end of December. Miss Anderson has lately come back to London from Paris and Versailles after a pleasant trip, and now she is paying a farewell visit to her relatives in Scotland. Obituary. On November Ist, at 5, York Placp Mansions, London, the death occurred of Marie, widow of Albert James Abbott, of Wellington, The funeral service was held at Golders Green Crematorium to-day, and the interment is to take place at North Molton, Devon. Mrs Abbott was 56 years of age. t -At King's College Hospital, tho death occurred suddenly on October 27th of Amelia Eleanor Slane, who was 62 years of age. The funeral service took < place three days later at the West Norwood Crematorium. The deceased lady had friends in New Zealand. In London, on November 2nd, tho death occurred of Ada, widow of Thomas Royd-Garlick, of New Zea-: land. At 54 Granada road. Sputhsea, Robert Withers, M.R.C.S. Eng., passed away at the age of 80 years. He had connexions in New Zealand and Australia. callers at the High Commis- i sioner's Office have included:—Miss M. < L. Smith (Gore), Mr Leo Lloyd (Devonport)p.Mrs E. C. Mitchell (Dunedin),- < Mrs J. H. Hermann, Miss E. Hermann (Havelock North), Mrs S. Natusch ' (Wellington), Mr R. S. Denvers (Auck- ' land), Dr. A. M. Scott (Invercargill), ; Mr W. L. Donohue (Whangarei), Miss E. M. Thoma's (Christchurch), Miss G. Brailsford (Levin), Mr F. Chichester : (Wellington), Miss E. North (Welling- i ton), Mr A. Spencer (Auckland). (