NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21177, 30 May 1934, Page 19

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON C--W v.'V fC'jl?.V;srO.\l>EKT.> LONDON, April 24. Mr Cecil W. Lusty (Auckland) left London on Saturday for a tour of Russia on behalf of "WorldRadio," a principal publication of the British Broadcasting Corporation. He travelled to Leningrad by steamer, and will come back, oveiland from Moscow, via Warsaw and Berlin. Mr Lusty has previously scent more than six months in Europe on behalf of various London publications, and upon the conclusion of this tour he will have visited all the European countries with the exception of Scandinavia. Dr. L. M. Edson (Auckland), who recently resigned his position as assistant lecturer in Bio-Chemistry st the University of Otago Medical School in order to do Bio-Chemical research at Cambridge, has enteied at Emmanuel College. or.d proposes to work there lor a period ol at least three years. During the vacations, Dr. Edson hopes to travel extensively in Great, Britain. Mr Howard 11. ll"«.pir (Dunedin). 'arrived bv the Rangitiki a few days on .'I burr:- I visit to London, combinins: bustm p.k with pleasure. He fxrr-et-. to in tin- Metropolis about "three ninths, during which time he wiH be at the Royal Dental l!c?pi'n), I.i r Square. Mr A Bryant (!nvcrcniT.ill'i. i? on a ve;,r's leave from 'he: staff ol" tlv■ Southland Boy;.' 11i'4ii School, ha - recently rirrived, with the intentk»i; of taking a course of i.est-sradua'e sindv at the London school of Eeonnmics. Ho '■'"ill pi'utir.bl.v be returning u, New Zealand, (Vaviiiff sibyst Christmas. Being 'Try keen i-: mount ainoering, hi; is kokinz f-.rv urd to doing s<>rne f/iinhiru > - S". i'; '"'bind dorina Julv r.ncl A;:-.--'. Tiif. r > i : the I!' \val Lnv.'ire Sfific'.v ! ..." il'derl t'S uold moc'iil v--,,-. Brij'ad!'•)"-(leiii ral Sir • s*. i; r T i'*!- h»n History of : s*'. 'i 1 . Sir Percy has travelJed ■ end has held _ high f.ffices in Pcivii: and Baluchistan. The i- has awarded the Waiter Kivwvn Lord prize in Imperial History tr. Mr J. Shepherd, of the lYi'.-orsitv of Svdney. for a treat ir." on British, New Guinea under Sir William MacGregor, 18891898. T ! c- pr'ze consists of books to th-" v;i.u" of five nounds, decorated v/Hh 1 1■-e book nlate of the late Mr Frew en Lord, together with a sum ot twenty pounds.

Mr C P. Horr.c (Invercargill), at the conclusion of an enjoyable voyage by the lonic, is appreciating a few days in London before leaving for a general tour of the Mother Country. He intends to go as far north as Inverness. In July he will leave tor New Zealand, via Suez. Major and Brevet LieutenantColonel T. R. Eastwood, D.5.0., M.C., The Rifle Brigade, has been selected to command the second battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps, in succession to .LieutenantColonel H. O. Curtis, D.5.0., M.C., who has been appointed Officer Commanding, British Troops in Palestine. Colonel Eastwood was A.D.C. to Lord Liverpool in New

Zealand from 1912. On the outbreak of the war he served first in German Samoa and then went to Egypt as Staff Captain of the fourth Australian Brigade, crossing with it to Italy. Later he served with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade in Egypt and France, and was G.S.O. to the New Zealand Division. Subsequently he went to North Russia with Lord Rawlinson and returned with him to Aldershot. Colonel Eastwood has since been on the staff at Cork, the War Office, and the •S'taff College—of which he is a graduate.