NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21813, 19 June 1936, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

* PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (non oca owi coaanspowDEKT.) .LONDON, May 30. Mr H. Horrocks, managing director of the Whakatane Paper Mills, ltd and Mr L. A. de Guere, engineer to the company, are about to s visit Norway to inspect some of the 1: nuln mills and to examine some of n the latest Swedish installations. c Mr L B Thompson (Ashburton) j v is going to take a two-year training * course at Metropolitan Vickers Q Electrical Company, Ltd., Man c Chester. 0 Mr Alan Lusk (Auckland), form- s erlv of the Public Works Depart- d merit. Temuka, who has been for i: nine months with the Air Ministry I (civil engineer’s branch) here, has t joined the engineering staff ot t Callander Cable and Construction Company, Ltd., in Bombay. f Mr C Newton King (Auckland), " formerly of the Public Works De- £ partment, Temuka, has, after 12 months with the Ministry for Trans- t port, been appointed engineer, Malay States Government. He has left s London to take up his new duties. £ Mr M. McG. Cooper (Havelock i North) is the first New Zealander f i who has held the offices of captain E and secretary of the Oxford Univer- J sity Rugby Football Club. j Mr Leslie G. Moss (Wellington), 3 with Mrs Moss, has been visiting the French champagne country and t vaults in the neighbourhood of f Rheims and the wine producing districts round Bordeaux. t Mr and Mrs P. J. Smith (Cash- j mere Hills, Christchurch), with s their son and daughter, arrived recently after having spent six weeks f in the United States and Canada. J Dr. Alexander McCaw (Invercar- t gill) is renewing old acquaintances t among his surgical colleagues in £ London, and is studying recent ad- r vances in the work of the London j hospitals. i Mr E. H. Hillman (Blenheim) in- | tends staying in the United King- t dom until August. i Mr Arthur C. Robb (Auckland) I has come to England to continue his j study on yacht architecture. At present he is at the Royal Corinthian i Yacht Club, at Burnham-on-Crouch, t Essex, watching the Olympic Games 1 eliminations. ‘ Mr D. M. Mclnnes (Timaru and < Dunedin) intends to remain in Man- s Chester for six or seven months, studying chiropody, and later he | may do post-graduate work. Mr Sydney Parkes, one of the ; joint general managers of Lloyds Bank, has been elected to the board ! of the National Bank of New Zea- ( land. , Mr J. H. Davison (Culverden) ; proposes to spend a few weeks in London, and then to travel through England by motor-car. He may possibly make a short trip to the Continent before leaving for New Zealand about the middle of November. J*Captain A. AV". Pearse, who repre- ; sents the Port of London Authority in Australia, for Australia and New ! Zealand, and who resides in Sydney, ; is in England. Mr Richard Maunder (Palmerston North )intends to study singing un- ' der Frey Lindblal at Stockholm, and ; the violin with Carl Flesch. Mr G. T. Caulfield (Christchurch) . will be in London for only a short ! time before leaving for New York. From New York he will go to Rio [ and Buenos Aires, and he expects : to return home in 1938. i Mr H. Z. Purchase (Whangarei), E graduate of the Institute of Mechani- • cal Engineers, has been transferred > from the electric locomotive equipment at Phoenix Works, Bradford, to the testing of Diesel-electric loco- , motives at Dick Kerr Works, Preston.