NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22304, 19 January 1938, Page 16

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

♦ PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON . i IfKOU ODB OWI CORBXSPORDMT-J * LONDON, December 29Captain V. C. Webb, marine superintendent, and Mr R. L. Gillies, intending engineer of the Union oteaw Ship Company, Ltd., leave na the Stratheden to-day for Austrawy and New Zealand. They have dp®*' visiting England about the construction of eight new vessels for the Compaq’ ; Mr W. J. Jordan, High Commissi®®; for New Zealand , is to broadcast message to the Dominion on FeDruan8, at 9.45 a.m. Greenwich mean • Ke will be preceded bv Mr H uD ?~: Carter, the New Zealand tenor. will give a recital of Maori songs. Colonel R. J. Blackham. C.8.. C.MA*" C.1.E., D.5.0., M.D., M.R.C.P.E.. passenger to New Zealand by the A»* roa, which left London on Decern oe 2S. He is on a holiday trip and VL leave for Australia after about a night in the Dominion. Colonel Biac*" ham, who is a barrister-at-law, 58 service with the Khyber Brigade 1898-99, and was on the staff of *{J Viceroy of India from 1912 to being thanked by the Goverment his services to the Viceroy at the oeuw outrage of 1912. He was five tunes mentioned in dispatches during Great War. He is an assistant-con®"' sioner of the St. John Ambulance gade, and is the author of sever* 1 (books.