NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21802, 6 June 1936, Page 15

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (raou oxrs ows oosssssovskst.) LONDON, May 16. Mr A, L. M. Perry (Christchurch) has been awarded a Carnegie Travelling Fellowship in Education on the recommendation of Professor F. Clarke, of the University of London Institute of Education, and of Dr. C. E. Beeby, of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Mr Perry will travel to New York in September by the Queen Mary to continue his work there and in California. He has just returned from a visit to Russia in which he was mainly concerned nth the new education system and the living conditions of the peop.e. He travelled through * Poland and Germany, staying some days m both Warsaw and Berlin, then passing on to Cologne and the Rhineland. At the end ol March Mr Perry gave an address to the New Education Fellowship on his impressions of the Progressive Schools he had been visiting, and last week lectured on life in New Zealand at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington. He is now spending some time at Winchester College where he is engaged in teaching his own subjects and in investigating the organisation of the school and the house system. Mr E. J. Maguire (Lower Kutt) is on a business trip to London. Mr Aston S. Hooper, a son of the former editor of the “New Zealand Agricultural Journal,” has received an appointment on the staff of the Milk Marketing Board.

Mr Richard Linton has accepted a commission from British Industries House to tour Australia and New Zealand for a few months and to open up business connexions in the interests of “two-way traffic" between Britain and the two Dominions. Mr Linton will leave London on May 21. Mr C. E. Jones (Christchurch) has benefited in health by his trip to England in the Akaroa. After a few days in London, be will leave on a motor tour of Devonshire —to stay at Combe Martin—and South Wales, where he has relatives. The Rev. B. C. Rudgard, formerly of the Melanesian Mission, has been appointed vicar of Newbold Pacey, Warwick. Mr Rudgard and his wife have been working in the interests of the mission, with Worthing as their centre. Mr George* Lemmon (Wellington) has come to study building, primarily cn the construction side. Mr Basil Bellhouse (Dunedin) is staying in London with his brother, the Rev. G. T. Bellhouse. He has come to attend the British Empire Dental Congress, to be held at the end of July,.and then he will go to Vienna for the International Dental Congress in August. Returning through Germany, Mr Bellhouse Intends to spend a few months in that country investigate ntg the dental clinics. In the meanwhile' he will visit friends in Scotland during June.