NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21363, 4 January 1935, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON IFBOM OUB OKI COBIESPOKOIIIT I LONDON, December 15. Major-General B. C. Freyberg, V.C., is attending a course at the Infantry School at Versailles. Dr. J. M. Barak (New Plymouth and Canterbury College, 1926 New Zealand Rhodes Scholar), who has been a member of the staff of the Chemistry Department at King's College, London, for several years, has been appointed to the position of research director of an important commercial undertaking in Manchester, and he has resigned from London University. Mr Hubert Carter (Auckland) has already begun to be busy professiqn r ally in England. During November he appeared with the Municipal Orchestra at the municipal concerts at Eastbourne, and he sang at the Literary Association's annual concert at Wanstead. This month he will be singing at the Palladium under the auspices of the National Sunday League. On February 2 he will take part in an Empire broadcast to Australia and New Zealand, and in March he will sing in ''The Creation" with the Torquay Philharmonic Society. With the exception of Eastbourne, where he sang with orchestral accompaniment, Mr Carter's New Zealand accompanist, Mr Stanley Morgan, has played for h > : at all his engagements. Dr. J. J. Brownlee (Christchurchi and Dr. H. K. Pacey (Palmerston North) have been granted Diplomas of Fellowship, Royal College of Surgeons. Other successful New Zealanders include J. K. Elliott, M.8., Edin., Edinburgh and Guy's Hospital (Wellington) and J. S. Batchelor, L.R.C.P. Lond., Guy's Hospital. Wing Commander Keith Rodney Park, M.C., D.F.C., has been appointed Air' Attache at Buenos Aires, accredited to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay, in succession to Group Captain R. B. Maycock, 0.8. E., who has completed three years in this appointment. Recently, Wing Commander Park received the honorary degree of M.A. from Oxford in recognition of his two years' command of the University Air Squadron. He is the youngest son of Professor J. Park, Otago University, and served at Gallipoli with the New Zealand Forces before being commissioned to the Royal Field Artillery. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps c in 1917, served in France, won the" Military Cross and Bar (1917), the French Croix de Guerre (1918), and the Distinguished Flying Cros.- (1919). Since the war he has commanded various units and is stationed at Nprtholt. The date of his new appointment is December 6. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., on December 13, Mr Harold G. Brown (chairman) made sympathetic reference to the deaths of Mr A. M. Mitchison and Sir Henry Buckleton. Mr Mitchison had been a member of the board for 30 years and an indefatigable worker in the company's interests. He was a man of sound judgment and strong views; well and courteously expressed and tenaciously held, but at the same time he was always prepared to extend to the opinions of others sympathetic and careful consideration. Sir Henry Buckleton's distinguished career with the Bank of New Zealand was widely known, and upon his retirement the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company thought itself most fortunate in securing his services as a local director. Mr Brown mentioned the retirement from the local board of Mr R. A. Holmes and Mr W. H. Millward, and spoke very highly of their business ability and financial experience. Mr Millward's successful career in the Dominion was founded upon qualities of integrity and commercial ability of tbe highest order, and his kindly regard for the welfare of other* endeared him to all with whom he was associated.