NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22343, 5 March 1938, Page 23

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (raoit oub own cobkespokdest.) LONDON, February- 9. Major-General T. R. Eastwood, who recently took over the position of Com- | mandant of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, was aide-de-camp to Lord Liverpool during his term as Governor-General of New Zealand. During the war he served in Samoa, Egypt, France, and Russia, and for a considerable proportion of the time was attached to various New Zealand units. Pilot Officer H. A. Bethune (Wellington), who has been attached to 22 (TB) Squadron of the Royal Air Force at Donibristle, Scotland, has been transferred to 36 (TB) Squadron at Seletar, Straits Settlements. The Rev. Michael Underhill, curate of Millom Parish, Cumberland, will leave for New Zealand in March. Mr Underhill has been at Millom for the last two years. In the current issue of the parish magazine his vicar, the Rev. S. Taylor, pays a very high tribute to his work, and states that he is leaving for the Dominion at the reauest of the Bishop of Wellington. Mr Eric S. Horn (Palmerstpn North) now holds the position of acting-secre-tary of the Sudan Interior Mission in London. Mr and Mrs Horn were stationed in Ethiopia for some six years before the outbreak of war there. They spent part of their furlough in New Zealand in 1935. and were on their way back to Ethiopia when conditions made it impossible for them to return. They have now been attached for some years to the Sudan Interior Mission. Mr W. Lawrence Donohue (Whangarei) has been approved in surgery at the final examination of the examining board of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England, held during January. Mr Donohue entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1931. r . v . Mr M. R. Grace (Wanganui) has been approved in the subject of pathology at the final examination of the examining board of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England, held during January. Mr Grace. who was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and Otago University, entered St. Bartholomew's in 1935. Mr G. A. Newling, formerly general manager and a director of Nottingham Journal, Ltd., publishers of the Nottingham "Journal" and Nottingham "Evening News," will leave with his family by the Arawa on March 18 en route to Auckland, where he may possibly decide to settle. Mr Newling who has been in charge of the "Journal" and its associated papers for more than 10 years, severed his connexion with the company on January 31. His resignation breaks a long family connexion with this group of papers. Before taking over as general manager in Nottingham, he was for 10 years London manager, a position in which his father was his immediate predecessor. Vice-Admiral J. E. T. Harper, one of the very few New Zealanders to have attained flag rank in the Royal Navy, will reach Auckland by-the Tamaroa on March 24. Vice-Admiral Harper, who visited New Zealand two years ago under the auspices of the Navy League, is making a private trip on this occasion, his chief object being to see,his son, Lieutenant J. A. Harper who is serving in H.M.S. Leith. He may, however, address Navy League branches unofficially during his stay in the Dominion. He expects to leave for Australia toward the end of April, and will sail from there for England at the end of May. Flight Lieutenant R. J. C. Nedwill • (Christchurch), who has been attached to 25 (F) Squadron, Royal Air Force, Hawkings, Kent, has been selected for a non-specialist permaneni commission. He received the appointment after examinations held m November among officers holding shortservice commissions. Mr Stafford Byrne (Wellington), wha is well-known in stage circles in London, has a part in "Volpone," by Ben Jonson, which is now being produced at the Westminster Theatre. Mr Byrne has been praised for his performance by several critics. „„„e. Mr Cecil P. G. Wakeley, FJELCJS.. and Professor A. St. George Huggett two of the examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, have arrived back in London after conducting primary examinations for the F.R.CS. at Melbourne, Sydney, Bombay, and Cairo. The college has held similar examinations oversea on several previous occasions, but the programme on this occasion has been more ambitious than hitherto. In Australia and New Zealand the standard of the candidates was remarkably good, and at Melbourne 17 out of 35 were successful. At Sydney three passed out of six, .and at Dunedin seven out of 14. The examiners were accompanied by Mr Horace H. Rew, the director of examinations of the college. • Lieutenant-Colonel William Holderness, M.C., formerly of the New Zealand Forces, has assumed command of the Ist Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment During the war he was adjutant to the old 35th Foot in India, and served during the operations against the Mohmands, Swatis, and Afghans, and was mentioned in dispatches and decorated. He served as staff-captain with the Upper Silesian Force. He has succeeded Lieu-tenant-Colonel C. C. Maiden, now a colonel and G. 5.0.1, at the War Office. Lieutenant D. G. Clutterbuck. R-N, who was lent to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy in 1935, has been appointed to the Vernon, it is announced by the Admiralty.