NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20550, 19 May 1932, Page 7

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. (*ROlt OUB OWN COBRBBPOKDENT.) LONDON, April 15. Lord ami Lady Glasgow will be in Loudon for the early part of the season. With their daughters, Lady Grizel and Lady Hersey Boyle, they will arrive at 10 Eaton square, at the beginning of May. This is the London residence of Sir Thomas Inskip, K.C., and Lady Augusta Inskip. On May 24th, the Hon. Mrs Algernon Borthwick will give a dance for her daughter, Miss Raphael Borthwick, at 8 Cadogan square. Commander V. A. C. Crutchley, V.C., D.S.C., R.N., now serving in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, will receive the sympathy of his friends on account of the death of his mother, the Hon. Mrs Crutchley, who died at Sunninghill Lodge, Ascot, on April 9th, at the age of 68. The deceased lady was Frederica Louisa, second daughter of the third Lord (Southampton and sister of the present peer and of the Speaker. From 1883 to 1890 she was Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria, to whom her mother was Lady of the Bedchamber from 1878 to 1901. She was married in 1890 to Mr Percy Edward Crutchley, son of General Crutchley, of Sunninghill Park, Berkshire, and she leaves an only son. Thirty law students, including two women, are about to be called to (lie Bar at the Inns of Court. One of the two women is Miss Marguerite Lesley Harris, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Leslie Wolf red Harris, of Egerton Gardens, formerly of Dunedin. She will be called at the Middle Temple. The other woman is Miss Lettice Vivian, only daughter of Mr Sylvanus Percival Vivian, lI.M. Registrar-General. The results of the Honours School of Moderations, Oxford University, have been announced. In class three list appears tho name of J. 11. Lascelles, of Balliol, formerly of Christ's College. A Now Zealand medical student at Guy's, G. A. B. lloby (Nelson) passed in biology at the pre-medical examination of the Royal Colleges of Physicians aud Surgeons held at the end of March and the beginning of April. In October Mr J. E. Ilardwick Smith, Claro College, Cambridge, will come to London to take his medical course at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Dr. and Mrs G. E. Watcrwortk (Napier) arrived by the Port Caroline. They intend to return to New Zealand about the end of the year. Dr. Waterworth will visit medical centres in England, Scotland, and tho Continent, for post-graduate study. After spending eighteen months in the North of England, Mrs Alan C. Bic>wne (nee Ruth Turner, of Christchurch) has taken an apartment in London, and is continuing her fine art studies at the Slade School of Art. Her sister, Miss Kathleen Turner, who has been studying architecture and decoration of interiors at the Paris Ateliers and at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art, is also in London. Mr and Mrs P. J. Mourant (Orini, Waikato) contemplate spending two months in England. Friends will be glad to know that the trip has proved vory beneficial to the health of the latter- Mr and Mrs Mourant are going to St. Ifeliers, Jersey, and then to Southall. Mr Mourant's father lives in the Channel Islands, and Mrs Mourant's brother, Mr Harry Rountree, the well-known artist, resides at Southall. The Moldavia made a very good passage from Australia. Mr John Gieseking (Greymouth) spent five weeks very pleasantly in Australia before continuing his voyage to Ceylon. He remained in Colombo for a week, going thence to Port Said to make that a starting point for a tour in Palestine. He was in Jerusalem during the Holy Week ceremonies. London was reached at the beginning of this month. Mr Gieseking will be in Europe until January next, when he will leave for San Francisco and tour in Japan and China, the Philippines, and Australia on his way home. New Zealand should be reached in ' March. Meanwhile Mr Gieseking will see all tho countries of Europe, and he will devote some time tp Ireland and Scotland. Next Christmas will be spent in the South of France. Mrs James Clarke (Wellington), the Misses Nola and Zena Clarke} and Miss Mona Dodson (Wellington) will spend a few weeks in London prior to setting out on a tour of the southern counties. Juno and July will be reserved for London and the season's functions. Miss Joan M. Carrington (Christchurch) is travelling in Poland aud Czecho-Slovakia with the Haileybury School Dramatic Company, which is presenting "Julius Caesar." Miss Carrington has written a book—with New Zealand as its setting—which is in the hands of the Oxford- University Press for publication in the near future. Dean Carrington and Mr C. E. Carrington—father and brother of Miss Carrington—still reside at Hildersham, Cambridgeshire. Miss B. M. Milligan (Oamaru) intends spending the summer months touring in Great Britain. After seeing Devonshire and Cornwall during May, she will work through to the north via' tho English Lakes. In June she will cross to Belfast to visit friends, and then see as much as possible of Scotand. Miss Milligan will return to New Zealand via the United States. At present she is enjoying the inexhaustible interests of London. Two more Guiders from New Zealand who have called at the High Commissioner's Office have been Miss lima S. Wilson (captain of the Wairoa No. 1 Company), and Miss Mildred. L. Pierce (Motueka), district secretary. They will attend training weeks at Fox]e;i<,e and Waddow, a Camp for Overseas Guiders, and the 21.st birthday rally about the end of May. Miss Wilson came primarily in the interests ot Guiding, but she hopes to make a motor tour of England and Scotland during part of the summer, and also to see something of the Continent. Altogether, she will bo in England for nine months. Miss Pierce travelled by the Mongolia, and had a very pleasant voyage. She expects to be in New Zealand by February next, after spending some time with relatives and friends in London, Sussex, Hampshire, and Berkshire. Owing, doubtless, to the economic difficulty of the times, the Union of South Africa' has, it is understood, abandoned, at any rate for the present, the idea of taking up the Cause of the Handicapped Cluld—the Act for Union Control was passed in 1928. Therefore, Miss Rosina Aulsebrook (formerly of Christchurch), who came to England last summer on six months' leave of absence from South Africa, has decided to remain on indefinitely here and to continue the work in which she is specially interested—namely that, of training the physically crippled child to take up some suitable and congenial occupation. She haa always been opposed to the theory

that physical deformity must of necessity adversely affect the mental condition. la South Africa, Miss Aulscbtook worked with considerable success. In that country there arc, estimated 011 a basis of percentages obtaining m other countries, 3000 cripples I " cc lV/'"''.'.H orthopaedic treatment! and * V children requiring specially adaptoa educational facilities —children who at the moment , she considers, are wasting their time in ordinary schools anc who are adding to tho numbeis ''poor Whites." Miss Aulsebrook is remaining in England, meanwhile gaining further experience. She has been to most of the Orthopaedic centios, and is particularly impressed n.> Dame Agnes Hunt's centre at Oswestry, North Wales, which struck her as being really complete. Miss Aulsebrook is primarily interested m infinite mental capacity ol the luuu 1capped child, and she hopes, on returning later to South Africa,, to approach the subject from that ang;oj especially as the labour there is inos. j done by coloured races. She does no , of course, deprecate handicrafts, 0 they stimulate interest, and are value for cripples' hands, but su realises that these occupations s»oni« bo of therapeutic origin, and no merelv from the viewpoint ol occuP' tion." The little girl. Elizabeth whom Miss Aulsebrook adopted and brought to England from South Ary. ,r!l - • maktnp good progress at the <• -»a v Craft School. Sussex, and she has also received special attention from emu orthopaedic praetitioners. Mrs Herbert T. Wood (Mastcrton) has had an interesting time oil Uw Continent, travelling in Prance, Italy, and Switzerland. She went by air iiom London to Paris, anil found the trip delightful. It was so calm that she wro.-e letters while over the Channel, hut the Channel passengers by boat were having a very had tossing on account of t-lic roughness of the sea. Alter cn,jo>ing the delights of the French and Italian Rivieras, Mrs Wood went as far south as Naples, visiting Capri and the Blue. Grotto. The Mediterranean Fleet happened to he in the Bay of Naples, and presented a beautiful spectacle at nighttime, with its mvriad lights. Koine, Florence, Milan, and Venice were visited and then Streza and Bavcno on Lake Maggiori. Mrs Wood remained for a time at Montreux, visiting Geneva ami the Halls of tho League of Nations and Disarmament. Just now she is visiting friends at Bristol. On June 10th she will leave Liverpool for Canada, en route to Vancouver and Auckland, "which should he reached on July .11th. New Zealand school teachers who are in the Mother Country on exchange under the auspices o.f tiic League ot the Empire are: Mr George Ashton, M.A. (Christchurch), and Miss Nellie Scott (Dannevirke), who are in London; and Mr Gordon Richardson, M.A., and Miss Grace Bird, who are in Glasgow. The Jervis Bay left for Australia on April 13th, having the following passengers for New Zealand ports: —Auckland: Mr and Mrs H. Knaggs, Mr and Mrs W. Sawyer, Mrs E. M. llaigh, Mr T. D. Watson, Mr T. Brown, and 28 members of the League football team; for Wellington: Air E. E. James, 'Mrs Forster, and Miss I. W. Forster. Mrs A. Read (formerly a teacher under the Education Department, Wellington) has arrived with her daughter, Miss Muriel Read. They came by the Barrabool from Sydney, and arc staying at Hampstead with Mr Edward Monslcy, tho well-known author, who is a brother of Mrs Read. After seeing the sights of London a tour will he made in Devonshire and Cornwall. Many years have passed since Mrs Read had visited the land of her birth, and she anticipates finding many changes. Mrs James Clarke (Wellington) and licr two daughters, who arrived here recently, are spending some weeks in London before making a motor tour of England On April 4th a daughter was horn to Gwyneth, wife of Captain J. Laird, s.s. Turakina. Miss Esther Fisher lias been having a very busy time professionally during the past few mouths, and in all likelihood she will give, a pianoforte recital in the early autumn. Miss Fisher has done a good deal of broadcasting—with Sonia Moldavsky (violinist), with Murray Lambert (violinist), and with others. At tho Faculty of Arts she played with Cyril Scott in two piano works, also at the Architectural Association with him. At Bournemouth, with Sir Dan Godfrey and the orchestra, Miss Fisher took one of the two pianos in Cyril Scott's "Concertino," a new work for orchestra and two pianos. This performance was broadcast from Bournemouth. Other engagements have been with tho Lyndhurst Ilall concerts, at Conway Hall, with tho British Music Society, the Farnham Music Club, the Dorchester Music Club, and with the Kendall String Quartet at a private concert. Miss Fisher will bo heard again at Bournemouth in the summer, playing with the orchestra under tho conductorsliip of Sir Dan Godfrey. Her next appearance in London will be at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in a pianoforte and 'cello recital, the 'cellist being Miss Edith Hanson. Miss Stella Murray (Christchurch) is intending to give a song recital in London toward the end of May. She spent Easter at Bournemouth with friends, and renewed her acquaintance with Sir Dan Godfrey, who is hopeful of engaging her to sing again in Bournemouth during the coming summer. Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office have included Mr Peter Mclntyrc (Dunedin), Mr Anthony C. Tripe (Wellington), Miss Mildred L. Pierce (Motuclca), Lady Salmond (Wellington), Mrs H. T. Wood (Mastcrton), Mr F. Tucker (Auckland), Miss Rosina Aulsebrook (Christchurch), Mr B. Thompson (Auckland), Mr D. Price (Wanganui), Miss Ivy F.Wright (Auckland), Mrs M. Armstrong, Miss M. Armstrong (Christchurch), Miss I. Beyers (Wellington), Mr A. G. Lester (Christchurch), Mr E. W. Harris (Dunedin), Dr. and Mrs 11. K. Pacev (Palmerston North), Mrs A. Read, Miss C. Read (Lower Hut.t), Mr J. Gicseking (Greymouth), Mr and Mrs S. H. Pierce (Dargaville), Mr W. R. Bull (Napier), Mr J. L. Henton (Auckland), Miss WestWatson (Christchurch), Mr F. Hannaford (Auckland), Mr G. I'. Hobbs (Auckland and Christchurch), Mrs J. Clarke, Misses L. and N. A. Clarke (Wellington), Miss M. Dodson (Wellington), Dr. B. Collier (St. Clair, Dunedin), Miss L. Large (Napier), Mr and Mrs W. J. Holt (Christchurch), Miss W. Warren (Wellington), Miss B. Brophy (Greymouth), Miss N. Kennedy (Greymouth), Mrs M. Holmes, Misses B. and C. Holmes (Wellington), Miss M. Porritt (Timaru), Mr R. Wallingford (Auckland), Mr and Mrs G. Chadwick (Auckland), Mrs M. Quill, Mr N. R. Quill (Christchurch), Miss A. M. Richardson (Auckland), Miss M. 13. Alexander (Christchurch), Mrs A. Barlow (Christchurch), Dr. and Mrs A. Wilson Ilogg, Miss T. Hogg, Miss B. H°gg (•Wellington), Mr G. S. Harcourt (Wellington), Miss B. M. Milligan I (Oamaru), Mrs E. M. Balcombe Brown (Wellington), Mrs Grenfell Morgan (Wellington), Mr G. R. Young (Wellington), Mr J. W. Burgess (Wellington), Miss E. 11. Webster (Wellington), Mrs Wulstan Roberts (Masterton), Mrs Edward Purton (Christchurch), Mr Hugh Wright (Auckland), Mrs George Whitelaw (Auckland), Miss Nancy Whitelaw. f