NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23379, 12 July 1941, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (F.0.0.C.) LONDON, June 11. Lieutenant L. King, R.N.V.R. (N.Z.), (Wellington), is’ gunnery 'officer and No. 2 (third-in-command) .in a- destroyer which has been oh convoy duty between Scotland and the Straits 1 of Dover. Lieutenant King arrived in England in June, 1940, and was posted; soon afterwards to : a destroyer operating., with convoys in the Atlantic. "Life was very interesting, with sonid? thing happening all the tlme,”,,'vfas Ms comment. Later, he was transferred to his present ship. W. E. Merritt, the all-round New Zealand cricketer, took seven wicket* for 112, when playing l for-a-British Empire XI against Cambridge University at Cambridge. When bowling for Northants against a London .Counties' team Merritt had seven sixes hit from his bowling by Wellard. • . . After a stay of about a month m England on a special Government Mission,'Mr William Goodfellow (Auckland) ,is returning to New .Zealand. He expects to arrive during the middle of July. Mr Goodfellow is reserving comment on his stay in England unfu his return to the Dominion, ■

Mr Hubert Carta, the \yell-known New Zealand singer, accompanied oy his wife (formerly Miss Elizabeth Page), a distinguished pianist, hgs returned to London for a brief-holiday* They have spent six months with an Ensa concert party, entertaining men in the Royal Air Force, the' Navy and the Army. They have travelled throughout Britain. Major J. A. Mars, R.A. (Auckland), was promoted to the rank of major in. January, 1941, after a staff appointment, and was appointed to command a Field Battery,. R.A. He has been, selected to attend the Staff College. Course pt Camberley where he will be until October. ■ - Major L. S. Roger (Te Awamutu) has been appointed surgical specialist to the 18th General Hospital, in Berkshire, where he has taken up his appointment. The death is announced of ActingCommander S. J. P. Warrand, R*N.. who was navigator of the Hood. He was appointed navigator to the Veronica on the New Zealand station m July, 1930, and was in the-ship at Napier during, the 1931. aerthquake. After a period of service in, the Mediterranean he joined the Hood last year. He leaves a widow. The death occurred recently of Mr John Foden, who. in 1878, at the age of 13, left England by the sailing smp Waitangi, for New Zealand.; The voyage lasted 87 days. He returned to England in 1892, where he established London buying offices for a prominent Christchurch firm. In later years n« established his own business and travelled widely in all parts of the world, including New Zealand. Two New Zealand candidates were ordained by the Bishop in Chelmsford Cathedral on Trinity Sunday. They were Mr H. I. Irwin, 8.A., Canterbury College, and B. H. P. Kelly, 8.A., Urn-, versity of New Zealand and-Dip.'lp*. St. John’s College, Durham University.