NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21050, 29 December 1933, Page 14

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON vrKOil OUR OWN COHEESPOKDIHT.) LONDON, November 24. Mr R. M. Barrer, M.Sc., University of New Zealand and Clare, who won the recent inter-collegiate race, has been awarded a half-blue for Cambridge in the inter-university cross-country race, to be decided at Horton Kirby on December 9. Mr Barrer is captain of the Cambridge University Hare and Hounds Club. He comes from Masterton. At a congregation of the Senate of Cambridge University on November 16, the degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon H. McC. Taylor, of Clare College. Mr Taylor belongs to Dunedin, and is the son of Mr James Taylor. After coming to England in 1928 he gained three studentships for research in literary subjects, and he passed the mathematical tripos with B star honours. Captain Hugh Monro, chairman of the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company, will arrive in London from Glasgow in a few days. He has booked his return passage by the Remuera, to leave on December 14. Mr J. Collett Dickinson (Auckland) has been in England on leave from Singapore, and he is now on the eve of his return for a further period of service on the construction of the naval base. He spent his leave principally in London, but he also toured the Southern Counties as far as North Devon in search of sunshine. Mr Lance B. Todd has been chosen as secretary-manager of the Salford Northern League Football Club for seven years, and according, to a Blackpool journal the club seems rather proud of the fact that they have secured the services of the erstwhile New Zealander. The writer says: "Mr Todd was secretary of the North Shore Golf Club for a while, but his heart is really in Rugby football. I first knew him, years ago now, when he was a star of the All Blacks who came over from New Zealand. Mr Todd has a great opinion of Blackpool, and he has many friends here. Since he became secretary-manager of Salford, about four years ago, the club has been very successful. London Highfield were after him, but' he seems to prefer Salford." A writer of sports paragraphs in a London daily remarks: "Wigan have not retained W. E. Merritt, the New Zealand and Lancashire League cricketer, who has been playing a series of trial games. I learn, however, that he is to have a trial with London Highfield, and will be in the team against the Australians at the White City."

Mr A. E. Manning (Hamilton) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Empire Society.