NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21087, 12 February 1934, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

* — ■- PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (iBOM 008 OW* CO.aREBFOt.HiaT.) LONDON, January 12. Sir Archibald Weigall is to represent the Royal Empire .Society as its chief delegate to Australia on the occasion of the Victoria centenary celebrations next autumn. Sir Archibald Weigall will sail in September and visit every state of the Commonwealth, but he has not yet made up his mind whether he will go on to New Zealand or not. The Rev. John Pigott, vicar of Newtown Linford, near Leicester, has been appointed rural dean of Sparkenhoe 111. by the Bishop of Leicester. The deanery is the one in which his present parish is situated, and he is staying on at Newtown Linford. Mr Pigott is taking part in a very large missionary exhibition to be staged in Leicester at the end of April. He will be head . of the Australian and New Zealand court. Mr Pigott was previously yzcar of Waipiro Bay and Waipawa, ' in the diocese of Waiapu. He re- ] turned to England in 1931. Dr. J. Rutherford, who has been appointed to Auckland University 1 College, will leave for New Zea- ] 26 Tamaroa on January i

' Mr G. L. Agar (Khandallab, ■Wellington), of the Post and Telegraph Department, has been in England since the end of 1932, studying English methods. He spent nine months with the British Post Office in various parts of the country, and lias r.btained a good deal of knowledge of the engineering and traffic branches of his business. For the last three months he has been with the General Electric Company, at their telegraph works at Coventry. He leaves England at the end of . this month and will spend five weeks in America, where he will be in touch with the American telegraph and telephone companies. Mr P. S. Byrne (Wellington) is now rehearsing in London for a tour with the Arts League in the South of England and Wales. He began his professional career as an actor in London last spring, when he played Slender in Oscar Aschc's production of "The Merry Wives of Windsor.". He was in "Advertising April" and "London Wall" with the Greater London Players, and then played the part of Comus in •'Comus" at the Open Air Theatre, Pctersfield. Immediately afterwards he began rehearsals with the Arts League of Service for a three months' tour of Scotland, including visits to the Isle of Arran and Caith- • ness. The players were the guests j of the Marquis and the Marchioness , of Aberdeen at their home when ; the Queen visited them. ] Flying Officer Geoffrey Roberts. Royal Air Force (Inglewood), is at present on leave from India, and is staying with his parents at Finch- t ley. \

I Diplomas in special subjects were j granted jointly by the Council of | the Royal College of Surgeons and j Ihe Royal College of Physicians vesterday. Under the heading of laryngology and otology appear I the New Zealand names: \V. G.; Bridgmari, M.8.. Ch.B.; I. C. Frasev. i M.R., Ch.B.; 1. M. Ruthcriord. ! M.8., Ch.B. ; The Rev. Mackenzie Gibson, curate of Esher, is shortly to leave the parish. Mr Gibson has been in Esher since 1019, when he returned from New Zealand, where he was ordained in 1085, a year after lie had been appointed to the curacy of St. Paul's, punedin. In 1886, he ! was appointed vicar of a church near Christchurch, and he ministered successively at Akaroa, Christchurch, Cust, Waimate, and Sumner. From 1914 to 1919, he was chaplain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Mr Bob McCiillough is return- j ing to Auckland early in March., j after spending some years in busi- | ness in London. He, has been study- : ing up-to-date account methods, and ; is going into business on his re- ; turn. Mr McCullough will prob- j ably have some interesting things to say about the relative merits of ■ Rugby football scrum formations. ] He has made a special study of the ; three-two-three and three-four-one J style of scrum. He intends to take < an active part in Rugby football ] during the coming season, .