NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1088, 29 March 1911, Page 23

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, February, 16. Mr. Thomas W. J. Johnson, of the Otago "University, has completed his studies at Middlesex Hospital, and obtained his M.E.C.S. Miss Alma Dale, late of Papanui (Christchurch), has been engaged by the British Women's Emigration Association, as matron, to go to New Zealand in chargo of a party of domestic servants leaving, London by the lonic. Tho girls are for' the- Hawko's Bay district. Tho Hon. W. P. Beeves, lato New Zealand High Commissioner, has been appointed president of the Economic Science and Statistics section of the 1911 congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which meets at Portsmouth next August, under the presidency of Sir William Bamsay, F.R.S. Mr. Guy H. Scholcfield is to_ read a paper on "The Origins of tho New Zealand Nation" at the AVhitehall Rooms in .the Hotel Metropole, under the auspices of the Royal Colonial Institute. Sir Wil-. liam Hall-Jones will preside. - Recent callers at the High Commissioner's offices have been:—Miss May M'Kay (Dunedin), W. C. Fisch (Wellington and .Christchnrch), J. E. Terry (Wellington), Mrs. R. S. M'Gowan (Dunedin),' Miss M. Mason (Waikato), Miss G. Grant (Rotorua), Mr. and Mrs. G. Harkness (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. W. H. GoringThoruas (Wellington), Mr. S. Brooking (Lvttelton), Mr. J. Fisher (Christchnrch), Mr. S. C. Ivens (Carterton), Mr. W. D. Rcvington (Greymouth). Lady Stout made a speech for the W.s.iu*. at Croydon, and one at Brighton, for the 'National Union, on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week, on Friday speaking in connection with tho British Women's Temperance Association at Horsted liegis. On Monday and Tuesday she lectured in Manchester, again for the 8.W.T.A., following that with ,i visit to Blackburn, where she spoke on tho same subject, A visit to Sheffield to speak for Miss Adela Panklnirst, and three speeches at Scarborough followed. On tho 20th Lady Stout is one of tho speakers in connection with the W.S.P.U., on the 22nd and 23rd speaks in Kensington, on the 23rd she takes the eha'ir at tho Journalistic dinner at the Lvcoum, then speaks again ill London on the 28th for the W.S.P.U.