NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22318, 4 February 1938, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

+ PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (FHOM OUB OWV COEKIBPOHDKNT.) LONDON, January 8. Mr Roy Beazley (Auckland) left the Strathmore at Marseilles and travelled overland to London. Next week he will fly to Paris and later he intends to visit Monte Carlo, Rome, Hungary. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Holland, and Germany, During a six weeks' tour he plans to study the latest building designs and improvements. Later he will travel to New York by the Queen Marv and will spend six months in the United States before returning via San Francisco. Sir James Gunson, who has been on a holiday visit to England and Ireland since October, left for New Zealand by the Rangitiki on JanuLord and Lady Cochrane, of Cults left bv the Rangitiki on January 6 for New Zealand. They expect to be awav until the end of April. Group Captain the Hon. R. A. Cochrane, Chief of the Air Staff in New Zealand, is their youngest son. Lord Cochrane was Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1902 to 1905. He is a brother of the present Earl of Dundonald and was created first Baron Cochrane of Cults in 1919. Mr R. Winterburn (Christchurch) ha<s returned to London after three months in the United States and Canada, studying educational, vocational, and child guidance, as the guest of the Carnegie Corporation. He now plans to do three months' intensive work with the National Institute of Industrial Psychology 'in London. Lord Dormer, of Grove Park, Warwick, left by the Rangitiki on January 6 for New Zealand, and expects to return about the middle of April. Lord Dormer is the fifteenth baron and is a captain of the Life Guards. Mr G. R. Ashbridge, general secretary of the New Zealand Institute of Education, is on 12 months' leave of absence from the Dominion, holding a Carnegie travelling scholarship for studying educational administration abroad. Since he arrived in London during September with Mrs Ashbridge, he has visited Hull; York, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Oban, and travelled extensively in Europe, visiting Germany, Denmark, France Austria, and Czechoslovakia. He will leave England by the Bremen next week for New York, where he is to spend four months at the Columbia University. Before returning to New Zealand he plans to visit Canada. He expects to arrive in Auckland by the Monterey during August. Mr S. K. Ratcliffe, a well-known lecturer and journalist, has left England for New York on a lecturing engagement in the United States and Canada until the end of April. His plans include a tour of New Zealand and Australia, and a return by either India or Japan. He will probably be absent from England during this year.