NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22445, 5 July 1938, Page 20

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (non OtTB own COBBBSPOKDMTT.) LONDON, June 18. Mr H. W. Wilson, Clare College, has been placed in the first class.of Part II of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge. He came from Otago University in 1936. Mr Winston F. Monk, 8.A., Oriel College, Oxford, 1934 Rhodes Scholar from Kaikoura, has been awarded the Beit Senior Research Scholarship for the academic year 1938-39. Mr Desmond W. E. Neligan, the Auckland-born son of Bishop Neligan, haj passed the Trinity bar examination of students of the Inns of Court, Middle Temple. His subject was “The Elements of Real Property.” When he was at Jesus College some years ago, Mr Neligan read agriculture with a view to taking up farming or estate agency. In 1931 he was on a cotton plantation abroad, but for several years he has been living in Sussex, growing products for Covent Garden market. At the recent primary examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England the following New Zealand candidates were approved in the subjects of anatomy and physiology:—A. C. Begg, M.8., Ch.B. N.Z., Otago and Middlesex; R. Blunden, M.8., Ch.B., N.Z., Otago and Middlesex; G. M. Foote, M.8., Ch.B., N.Z., Otago; P. W. S. Riley, M.8., Ch.B., N.Z., Otago and University College; and A. K. Tulloch, M.8., Ch.B., N.Z., Otago and University College. Mr Brian Vogel is to sing in a programme with the Enfield Central Band, which will be broadcast on July 20. Mr Vogel is appearing in a musical play in London. Pilot Officer W. Harcourt Coleman (Devonport) has, through the Yorkshire Gliding Club, had the opportunity of qualifying for his A, B, and C gliding licences, issued by the Royal Aero Club. Mr Coleman is attached to the 97th-Bomber Squadron of the Royal Air Force. The Rev. J. W. Burley (Auckland), senior curate at Faversham Parish Church, Kent, has accepted the living of Newington, South London, at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. He arrived in England in 1935. Mr Burley served with the New Zealand Forces during the Great War, enlisting at the age of 19, and he was twice seriously wounded. He was ordained a priest in 1926 at St._ John’s Cathedral, Napier. His work in New Zealand was largely among the Maoris. He was headmaster of a native school and in charge of Maori mission stations on the East Coast and in the Urewera country. In 1927 he was curate of Whakatane, in 1928-29 curate of Rotorua, and from 1931 vicar of Matamata. He has been honorary general secretary and honorary chaplain to the Faversham and district branch of the British Legion for the last two years. In New Zealand he was secretary of various branches of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association. Mr A. W. Oxley (Dunedin) intends visiting friends in Scotland and seeing the Glasgow Exhibition, after which he will tour the Continent before returning to New Zealand in September. Air Vice-Marshal C. T. Maclean, C.8., D.S.O. (Auckland), who has returned from three and a half years in command of the Royal Air F.orce in the Middle East, has been appointed in command of No. 2 (Bomber) Group. Wyton. in succession to Air Commodore C H. B. Bloupt. 0.8.E.. M.C. Included in this group are some of the first squadrons to be equipped with the Battle. Blenheim, and Welleslev bombers. Vice-Marshal Maclean has commanded the air stations at Hinaidi (Iraq) and Heliopolis, and from 1929 to 1931 was Air Officer Commanding at Aden. Messrs D. G. and R. M. Edgar (Wellington) have left on a six weeks’ tour of Europe. Their itinerary includes Belgium, Germany. Austria, Italy, and France. , • „ , Flying Officer R. J. C. Nedwill (Christchurch) has been posted to (he Central Flying School. Upavon, for flying instructors’ course. The Rev. C. E. Ardagh will visit Lourdes. Thence he will travel in Spain for some weeks and tour France and Switzerland before arriving in London again about the end of July. Mr E. N. Baker (Wellington), who arrived by the Mahana, is spending a few days with his uncle at Stockport, Cheshire, before starting out on a walking tour of England. He intends to work his way south to Devon. Dorset. and Cornwall, and thei\ to go north through Scotland. Mr J. C. Golightly (Invercargill), who left a position on the New Zealand Government Railways in February, hoping to enter the Royal Air Force service, joined the Air Force in the middle of May, and is at present in a training camp at Bedford. After arriving in England he was able to visit Bristol. Falmouth, Liverpool, and Glasgow. He was in Glasgow on the opening day of the exhibition.