NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21973, 23 December 1936, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

♦ PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (VBOIC OCR OWJI CORKISrOVDZHT.) LONDON, December 5.

Having spent 15 years in New Zealand, the Rev. E. Atkey, vicar of Holcombe Burnell, gave an interesting lantern lecture at the Church Hall. Exmouth, before the branch of the Church of England Men’s Society, on the development of the Dominion. Captain T. U. Roberts. R.N.R., hah been appointed to the command of the Shaw, Savill Arawa. formerly the Esperance Bay. now converting for the New Zealand trade. Mr Murray A. .egg (Christchurch) is visiting London to study fashion goods and business administration. Lieutenant J. A. Mars, R.A. (Auckland), and Mrs Mars, left for Singapore on December 2. travelling on the troopship Lancashire. Lieutenant Mars has been posted to the Hong Kong-Singa-pore Brigade, Royal Artillery, and he expects to be on the new station for about three years. In a year or two, when leave becomes due, he and his wife contemplate a visit to New Zealand.

Mr Robert John Seward, of the School of Architecture at Auckland University College, has been elected an associate of the loyal Institute of British Architects. He was one of 124 successful candidates. Mr W. Nash, New Zealand Minister for Finance, will address members of the Australian and New Zealand section of the London Chamber of Commerce on January 15. telling them of the objects of his visit. Mr W. W. Bridgman (Dunedin) left this mornim, by the Britannic for the United States, where he will spend a fortnight before joining the Aorangi at Vancouver on December 30. During his journey. Mr Bridgman expects to visit a few American schools. While in Edinburgh recentlv. Mr Bridgman visited Mr J. Hossack. who has returned from New Zealand, where he was on the staff of the Otago Boys’ High School. Dunedin, on exchange from the Royal High School. Edinburgh. Mr Lawrence McFarlane (Dunedin) has been accented for the Royal Air Force, and will begin flying training at White Waltham civi' flying school on December 21, This course usually lasts about two months, after which a fortnight is spent at the Royal Air Force Depot. Uxbridge. He will then be sent to No. 7 Flying Training School. Peterborough. Mr L. D. Marshall is waiting to be called up for a commission in the Royal Air Force, but there is delay until the arrival from New Zealand of certain papers. Mr A. L. Thompson. M.R.C.V.S. (Dunedin), and Mrs Thompson, are at present in London, but will shortly spend some time in Sussex. Later they will visit friends in Lincolnshire, returning to London for the Coronation. They hope to spend Christmas in County Durham. Mr and Mrs Thompson intend to remain in England for at least a year, and possibly longer, and they will take a flat in London. They will later visit the Continent and Norway. Mr D. F. Reid. London manager of the Bank of New Zealand, has been elected chairman of the British Over•seas Banks Association for the year. At a congregation of the Senate at Cambridge on Saturday last, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon Mr J. W. Harding, Emmanuel College. Mr Harding, wiio was demonstrator in physics at Victoria College, New Zealand, was

awarded a research studentship in 1930. and he arrived in England in October of that year. In 1932 this external studentship was renewed for a third year. Mr F. C. Chichester (Wellington), who recently completed a flight to England with Mr F. D. Herrick (Hawke’s Bay) is at present in Devon. He proposes to return to New Zealand early in the New Year. Mr W. Nash, New Zealand Minister for Finance and Marketing, and Mr W. J. Jordan, High Commissioner for New Zealand, were guests of the chairman (Lord Ritchie, of Dundee) and members of the Port of London Authority at luncheon yesterday at the authority’s head office. There were present to meet Mr Nash, the Rt. Hon. Lord Essenden (chairman. Fumes Withy and Company. Ltd., etc.), the Hon. Alexander Shaw (chairman. P. and O. Steam Navigation Company) Mr C. J. Cowan (chairman, New Zealand Shipping Company. Ltd.). Mr Harold G. Brown .(chairman, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.). Mr J. B. Wright, 0.8. E. (European managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd.), and Sir David J. Owen (general manager. Port of London Authority).

Mr T. Weir (Christchurch), at the beginning of the year, was in Venezuela, South America. Recently he came back.to England from Porlygal. The Rev. H. K. Archdall, chaplain of Wellington College, Berks, and formerly headmaster of King's College. Auckland, was the preacher on the afternoon of St. Andrew’s Day. at Westminster Abbey.