NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD....

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23361, 21 June 1941, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD....

PERSONAL NOTES FROM

LONDON

(F.0.G.C.) LONDON, May 28. A message from Guernsey dated February 12, states that the death occurred on July 20, 1940, in Guernsey, •of Mr James Esyen de Jersey. He was 86 years of age. The death has occurr-d of Lieutenant Commander J. T. Currie, R.N., who served in the New Zealand Division in the cruisers Doimede and Dunedin. He went to New Zealand in 1928 and' retired in 1932, rejoining for active service when the war broke out. The engagement is announced between Squadron Leader John Ramsey St. John, younger son of Mr and Mrs St. John, of Wellington, and Miss Patricia Whiting, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. E. Whiting, of Castlethorpe Lodge, Bletchley, Bucks. Mr Percy Nesbit, managing director of a firm of Australian and New Zealand merchants, has been re-elected to the council of the London Chamber of Commerce. _ ~ Squadron Leader the Rev. J. M. Beaufort, formerly headmaster of King’s School, Auckland, and later headmaster and co-director of St. Peter’s School, Cambridge, is. a chaplain in the Royal Air Force, in which he served during the last war. He retains his position as Sub-Dean and Canon Residentiary of St. Albans Cathedral, to which he was appointed in 1939 Lieutenant J. L. Greer, R.A.N.V.R. (Auckland) has completed a course at H.M.S. King Alfred, and is to be posted to a ship. Before the war he spent three years in Siam, When the news was received that France had fallen, he went to Sydney, where he enlisted. Lieutenant Greer is a, former member of the Royal Akarana Club., Two other members of his yacht, Tainui, are also serving in England, Lieutenant A. J. Spicer, who is in a motor launch, and Lieutenant R. Jeffrey, who is in a corvette.