NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21258, 1 September 1934, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

* PERSONAL NOTES FROM I LONDON (rv.iyj. oca otvh cohmsi'Ondent.) LONDON, July 26. Mr Percy Agar (Christchurch) ; arrived in England in May on a visit to his mother. He has recently been touring in England, j Wales, and Scotland, and he bad lime previously to visit Paris and j southern France. j Dr. A Cameron Owen (Lower Hutt) expects to be in London two months doing hospital work. Just now he is attending the one hundred and second annual meeting of the British Medical Association at Bournemouth. H. P. Wcstmacott, St. George's School, Wanganui, has passed the qualifying examination for entry in the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, next September. At the quarterly meeting of the council of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, held this week, Dr. J. S. Fairbairn was re-elected president, and Dr. PI. Russell Andrews and Dr. Bethel Solomons vice-presidents. Among those elected to membership of the college was T. i. Corkill (New Zealand), and W. Irving (New Zealand) elected a foundation number in absentia. Mr John Bootli (Chrfstchurch) is staying in Dublin with his daughter, Mrs Lionel Thomas. While in London he took the opportunity to visit the churches of St. Mary and St. Mathias, in Stoke Newirigton, both of which are historically connected with New Zealand church history. On the conclusion of his business in Ireland, Mr Booth intends to return, via Suez, visiting the hill of Mars, where St. Paul preached to the Corinthians, and Palestine. Mr F. W. Hempleman (Auckland) is in Scotland this week, and after a tour in that country he will go to the Drama School at Scarborough, in August. After that he will make a tour in England, and he hopes to secure employment with the London County Council in September. The Doncaster "Gazette'' mentions that Professor T. H. Easterfield, late director of the Cawthron Institute, is to visit his home town. Professor Easterfield is an old scholar of the Doncaster Grammar School, and as a very young student he was responsible for the first investigations into the Balby Boulder Clay—since bis time a subject of interest to other geologists—and read a paper on his discoveries at one of the earliest meetings of the Doncaster Scientific Society. His visit to Doncaster will be on the occasion of the annual dinner of the Old Danensians' Club, and he is to propose the toast of the school. Surgeon Lienutenant H. de B. Kempthorne, M.8., has been appofnted to Victory for R.N.B. (August 1). This officer comes from Ruapirau, (Wanganui river) and has seen service in China. Father Stephen O'Callaghan has been elected Superior General of St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society at the general chapter of the society at Mill Hill, in succession 1o Bishop Biermans, who has retired on account of his health. The appointment is for a period of 10 years. Father O'CaUaghan was born in Cork 42 years ago. After his ordination in 1915. he went to , the Maori Mission in New Zealand. I where he has worked for nearly 20 years.