NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20647, 9 September 1932, Page 9

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. (zaoii ouk ow» cobresfosdei;t.) LONDON, July 23. Dr. J. B. Condliffe (formerly of Canterbury College) is very busy at Geneva ■with the final proofs of his first annual economic surrey for the League of Nations. It will appear in Trench and English. "While he is thus busily engaged, Mrs Condliffe and her three children are exploring the Grindelwald area of Switzerland, her son having returned from Derbyshire to' Switzerland for his school holidays. Mrs J. Struthers (Christchurch) has been staying in Geneva with Dr. and Mrs Condliffe, having there a very interesting time. Sho returned a few days ago via Paris. Mr Harold Lightband (Christchurch) arrived in London a week ago, having come via Suez. He will stay for several months, and hopes to meet a number of New Zealand friends who now live in the Mother Country. Ho has been joined by. his son, Mr Denis A. Lightband, a recent arrival from Pittsburg. He was for nearly eight years with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company there, and ha 3 come to England take tako up a position in the English Electric Company's Bradford works. Father and son together are enjoying London.

Mr C. H. Bustin (Napier) is combining business with pleasure. lie travelled overland from Naples. During a stay of some three months' dura tion he will motor through England and Scotland, cross to France, and leave about November for Madras. Mr Bustin expects to' be in New Zealand again about January. •Mr Arnold Leake (New Plymouth) is on a pleasure trip. He arrived in April, and will return home in December. He bough't a motor-car on arrival, and he has had numerous trip 3 in the South of England. He is now joining a society of car owners who take children from the, London slums for outings to country i*nd seaside; in this way he will be employed during August. Later on he hopes to get to Scotland, and then to sec more of the southern counties. A short tame ago Mr Leake was in hospital with eye trouble. Most of the film critics make favourable comment on "After Office Hours" —the talkie version of Mr J. van Druten's "London Wall." Mentioning Miss Viola Lyel, who has made the film part of the lead, played by Miss Marie Ney, "The Times" says: "She neither sentimentalises nor embitters the character, though she does not quite succeed in expressing that undercurrent of emotional intensity of which Miss Mane Ney made us aware in the stago production of the piece." A passenger bound for Wellington by the P. and O. liner,. Cathay, leaving London to-morrow, is Mr D. E. S. Mason. Following two years' service in the Sudan with the Irrigation Department of the Sudan Government, Mr A. J. Learmonth. (Auckland) had a few months' holiday visit to New Zealand. Now he is about to leave London for

Portuguese East Africa, to take up a position under the Central Africa Railway Co., Ltd., where he will serve under the .Resident Engineer, who is in charge of the reconstruction of a new railway bridge across the Zambesi river. This official is Mr F. W. A. Handman, who was Agent for Sir W. E. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd.. in charge of their contract on the Arapuni hydro-electric scheme, and Mr Learmonth served with him there. Fire other New Zealanders who served under Mr Handman in the Dominion are on his staff at the Zambesi bridge, namely. Messrs W. S. Roe, F. C.ibb, ,T. Hislop'i A. Edge, and S. Awcock. New Zealand engineers' will be interested to have news of Mr W. Hudson, who is at present Resident Engineer in charge of the construction of works in the Galloway Water Power Board's new hydroelectric scheme in south-west Scotland, and of Mr A. Lush, who is acting-agent for a contractor who is carrying out part of the work in this scheme. Mr Hudson and Mr Lush were both at Arapuni.

Mr W. E. Henley, Rhodes Scholar, son of Mrs E. A. W. Henley (Napier), completed his Scholarship in June, and has been awarded a scholarship at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he will carry on his medical studies. Dr. A. E. Porritt, a former New Zealand Rhdoes Scholar, who is on the staff at St. Mary's, is highly thought of by London medical men. Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office have included Miss Rosemary Rces (Gisborne), Mr and Mrs A. Couper (Wellington), Mr S. W. Minson (Christchurch), Mr D. L. Dustin (Wellington), Miss F. T. Peacock (Masterton), Mr J. M. Saunders (Palmerston North), Mr G. Snaddon (Wellington), Mr A. Anderson (Pctone), Dr. D. Mackay (Hamilton), Mr H. E. W. Roberton (Auckland), Miss A. M. Welby (Wellington), Mr and Mrs W. M. Watt (Auckland), Mr A. Leake (New Plymouth), Dr. Hilda M. Northcroft (Auckland), Misses M. and Z. Castle, Miss L. Hargreavcs (Wellington), Captain and Mrs H. H. English, Mr and Mrs Noel Newton (Timaru), Miss G. Clarkson (Christchurch), Mrs W. Buckley Millington (Auckland), Mr C. S. Johnsen, Mrs Johnsen (Otaki), Mr T. E. Johnsen, Miss L. A. Burke (Auckland), Dr. Flora Murray (Christchurch), Miss G. B. Murray, Mrs P. E. Hamlin (Waipawa),Mr J. R. Gillespie (Wellington), Mr R. S. Hill (Wellington), Miss P. M. Lyndon (Wellington - ), Rev. and Mrs M. Nicholls (Auckland), Mr J. M. Hyams (Auckland), Miss J. Duhig (Oamaru), Miss M. Smith (Dunedin), Dr. and Mrs G. J. Blackmore, Misses K. and N. Blackmore (Christchurch), and Mr G. E. MacShane (Auckland).