NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20545, 13 May 1932, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

IJ'ROU Cf* OWK CO*M»PO»WS.NT.. , LONDON, April 7. The Rev. Canon T. J. Somers Cocks CWaimate) is going to Yorkshire for a few weeks, having agreed to take tomporarv duty in ft small country v.arisb. Mrs and Miss Cocks will go with him, and they all hope to see a go<xl deal of the interesting part of England, es they have a small touring car" and'will be able to get to some of the cathedral cities. Mr I''., li. Cocks, 8.E., M.lnst.O.E., who is with the firm of Messrs Greece. Cardew, and Rider, consulting engineers, lias'had a paper accepted for publication by the Institution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain. it is entitled "The Graphical Determination ol Expansion Stresses in Steam Pipes. ' Miss G. M. Glauville (Christchurch) is leaviu."- j'or Cambridge to spend i\, few weeks with Mr and Mrs. John Struthers (Christehurch). Mr Struthers is- studying mathematics at iSt. Johns College, Cambridge. This year Dr. .Alfred Cox. for oweuty vviirs past medical secretary of the British Medical Association. • will retire. The. Association, which lias members in all parts of the British Empire as well as in other parts of the world outside the Empire—the total membership being 32,000 —has taken the opportunity to signalise its appreciation of the services of Dr. Cox by providing for the British Medical .Association an oil painting of himself bv Sir Arthur S. Cope, 1v.Cv.0.. R'.A., and at the same time giving Jiim a presentation . book, containing the names and addresses of .all ■ the s "'.>- scribers, and a cheque. -The portrait will be hung at the coming exhibition of the Royal Academy at Burlington House. PajmiasteiiCommunder It. V. Dnvraan, R.N., the recently-appointed secretary to Commodore F. .Burges-Wat-son, .11'. N., and naval secretary to'the New' Zealand Naval Board, is a passenger by the Rangitane this week on his way to the Dominion. He is accompanied by Mrs Durman (who is a daughter of the late Lieut -Colonel M. B. Bicknell. Royal Artillery) and their small daughter, aged four. Both Pay-master-Commander Durman and Mrs Dr.rmau look forward with much pleasurable interest to their life in New Zealand, which they feel sure cannot prove to be anything but a very happy one. Captain .). S. G. Eraser, D.S.U., A.D.C.. R.N., lately .Second Naval Member of the New Zealand Naval Board, arrived in England yesterday by the Remuera. Mr Ronald Chamberlain. M.A., Mus. Bac, E.R.C.0.. left vesterday for New York en route to New Zealand to conduct examinations in the South Island on behalf of Trinity College of Music. London. He will be similarly officially engaged in Canada and Newfoundland on his way. and should reach New Zealand in July. Mr Chamberlain is looking forward with pleasure to another period of work in the Dominion. Mr Warwick C. North (Dunedin) reached England at the beginning of this month, having come via Cape Horn, Monte Video and Las Palmas. He has come primarily to gain, journalistic experience, and he hopes to he here at least six months. Mr B. Falkland Macfarlane (Devonport), who is now studying the course of medicine at Edinburgh University, has been successful in gaining the medal for Midwifery and Diseases or Women. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Frank Macfarlane who are now in Edinburgh. Miss Dorothy Tanner (Wellington) is staying with her sister, Mrs Laird, in Scotland. She had a very pleasant voyage via Australia and Suez. Ine New Zealand Guidei's on board took part in the concerts and did poi dances in Maori costume. Naturally, these "turns" were greartV appreciated, and the passengers generally displayed great interest in New Zealand. I hey seemed to think it would be a good place in which to live. Coming south from Scotland, Miss Tanner will stay with friends in Devonshire. In May she will go to Foxlease, and in June, with all the other New Zealand Guiders. she will go to the International Camp m. Surrey. She hopes to be in the Mother Country until about November.

Another New Zealand Guider who has arrived is Miss A. M. Faulkner (Napier). Miss Joan Neill and Miss Mona Burgin (Onehunga) have also ealled at the High Commissioners Office. Dr Grahame S. Erwiu (Dunediu) arrived by the Port Bowen. He expects to. be in England for several vears engaged in professional studies, with a view to Membership of the Royal Colleae of Physicians. Dr. Erwiu may ultimately' settle in-•••the Mother Country. Miss Mvra T.awson (Wellington), who arrived by the 'Strathnaver three months ago, has been mostly m bt. Boswells, in tho Border Country, staying with relatives. She has also visited other relatives in Edinburgh, arid has had a very interesting time touring in. the Highlands. Miss Lawson is in London this week en route to Wales. She had an interesting time in Warwickshire on the journey south. Mr J. G. C. MacKenzie (Wellington) is a student at the Koyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where he is taking a two years' course, attending lectures, and doing practical work in - horticulture. At the present time he is the only New Zealander working there, though there are students from all parts of the British Isles:, South Africa, Australia, Malta, Sweden, and Siam, Miss Gladys Lorimer (Cliristchureh) is touring in England as a guest artist with the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company, whose repertoire includes "Tales of Hoffman," "Rigoletto," and "Montana." - Mrs M. R. Hope lias gone back to Geneva, after having spent several months in England. Dr. J. T. Irving (Christchureh) has taken his M.D. degree at Cambridge. He is a lecturer in physiology at Bristol University. The Rev. Brother Borgia (Coughlan), who was attached to the Sacred Heart College, Auckland, as principal for six years, and who in 1030 received an appointment from the Marist Superior General in Italy as Provincial Superior of the Marist Brothers' Schools in the Union of South Africa and Basutoland, is at present in England. The Marist Brothers are holding a general chapter or congress of the Order in Turin in May, at which representatives from practically every country in the world will attend. Brother Borgia will be representing South Africa. Meanwhile, he is trying to get into toueh with educational matters in Great Britain, and especially in Scotland, where ho intends to spend most of this month.

On his way to Turin lie will visit Lisieux, Paray-le-Aloniai, and Lourdes. From the religious point of view these places are of particular interest to Roman Catholics. Brother Borgia has also arranged to be present at the International Eucharistie Congress to be held in Dublin in June. After touring Ireland he will go back to South Africa, reaching there in August. When his term of office expires in South Africa—about four years hence—he will return to New Zealand. In the course of conversation, he remarked: I landed at Durban on January Ist, 1931, and I hare found South Africa an extremely interesting country, but, of course, it has not the same appeal for me as New Zealand. We have schools in Cape Town, Rondeboscb, Uitcnhage, Port, Elizabeth, Bloemt'ontein, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, and Johannesburg, the last being our strongest centre. In tact, the Marist Brothers were the very first to open a .school in Johannesburg;. We have a training college for native teachers in Basutoland. As I have to visit'ail these centres officially at least twice a year, you can appreciate that my work in South Africa is by iu> means uncongenial. .Miss Eunice Aleredith, the New Zealand soprano, has booked her passage by the Oronsay, leaving Tilbury on July 23rd. She is going out partly to see hear relatives who are resident in both j Islands, and partly on a professional Midi'. In Dunedin she hopes first to sing.,Miss Meredith M'as the soloist recently at the choral and orchestral concert of the British Music Society when Elgar's "Banner of St. George" was performed. She sang at the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Baptist Church, at Greenwich, when Mr.Hugh Redwood delivered a stirring, address. Last week she took part, in the musical festival (oratorio) oi the Dulwieh Musical Society, and-'she sang in "The Messiah" at thol4reat Assembly Hall, Mile End, given under the auspices of Sir John Bryant (of Bryant and May). Every Sunday evening in Mareh she was singing in the same hall in the East End of London. Miss Meredith has a good repertoire, and she sings in German, Italian, and French as well as in English. Recently, at Toe II Church, she took a solo in German; after the service a lady from Germany congratu--1 lated her, and added: "But you are German, of course?" At a dinner of the Foreign Language Association last year, the New Zealander was vocalist, when she sang with success in tho tongues of four countries, and was heartily congratulated. Miss Meredith has ' done concert work in London in association with Mr Ronald Chamberlain (Trinity Collego of Music), and she hopes that it may be possible, when Mr Chamberlain has concluded his examinations in New Zealand toward the end of this year, for them together to do some concert tours in both Islands. She has numerous engagements to fulfil between now and the date of her departure. ] Birth Announcement—The birth of a daughter is announced to Elizabeth (nee Francis), wife of K. B. J. Saxon, of Pelyn, High View, Pinner. Mr Saxon, M.C., M.A., who belongs to Nelson, is well-known in education circles in the Mother Country. At Cambridge a few years ago he obtained a Blue for both' Rugby and Athletics. Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office have included Mrs F. K. Spence (Auckland), Miss E. Fleming (Auckland). Mr J. 11. Bremncr (Dunedin), Miss Elspeth Ames, Mr A. H. McDonald (Auckland), Mr B. R. Ward, Mr A. D. Connell. Alias R. Towle (Auckland), Airs F. G. Ward (late Auckland), Dr. H. J. Hall, Mrs A. F. Hall (Dunedin), Miss Joan Carmichael (Alt. Eden), Mr and Airs P. J. Mourant (Orini), Miss M. Osborn ("Wellington), Miss G. Barak (Christchurch), Miss S. Lusk (Auckland), Aliss .7. Neill (Oriehunga), Miss A. At. Burgin (Epsom), Miss R. M, Wilson (Heme Bay), Miss F. E. Knight (Onehunga), Miss L. R. Lynn (Dunedin), Dr. G. S. Erwin (Dunedin), Mr J. L. Westgarth, Air A. Spencer Westgarth (Christchurch), Air 8. W. R. Blow (Wellington), Mr G. S. Cox (Dunedin), Aliss F. M. Fish, Aliss D. Tanner (Wellington), Air G. Dawson (Wellington), Mrs L. Gordon (Wellington), Aliss M. Lawson (Wellington), Aliss I. S. Wilson (Wairoa), Miss A. M. Faulkner (Napier), Aliss H. Ilitchings (Napier), Miss E. L. Alwyn, Mr W. G. North (Dunedin), Airs A. C. Browne (Westland), Air E. Harkness (Auckland), Aliss C. E. D. Stobo (Invercargill), Miss F. J. Ross (Dunedin), Airs A. Moodie (Dunedin), Mrs Shelmerdino (Dunedin), Aliss M. G. Brooks (Auckland), Mr A. G. Flanagan ("Wellington), Aliss Al. E. Alclndoe (Dunedin), Aliss M. Major (Auckland), and Alv E. H. McGormiek (Wellington).