NEW ZEALANDEES ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2984, 23 January 1917, Page 2

NEW ZEALANDEES ABROAD.

« IN CITY AND CAMP. (Prom the "British Australasian.") London, November 23. Lieut. A'. D. Blair, R.N. (Dunedin), ivfoo is doing naval patrol work it Queenstown, Ireland, was in London last week. Sir Thomas Mackenzio will ho present to-day a t the presentation of colours by Queen Alexandra to tho Indian Army, at tho Indian. Office. Sir Joseph and Lad'y Ward are in Scotland, and wero in Edinburgh on Monday for tho ceremony of installing Mr. Massey as a Freeman of Edinburgh. Tho friends of Mr. D. H. S. Rkldiford,. Grenadier Guards, tnd Mrs. Riddiford; Feathorston, will bo interested to hear of the birth of their daughter at 15 Courtfield Road, on November 21. Mr. S. Blackley, who resigned the general managership of Messrs. Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., of AVollington, in order to join the forces, 'is now training with tlio R.F.C. at Famborough. Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Massey . have been enjoying the hospitality of a number of towns: York and Cambridge last week and Edinburgh on Monday, of all which cities Mr. Massev received tho freedom. Mr. J. W. .Coe Barnes, of Wellington, who spent some timo in New York studying American customs and business methods, is lore on business ! until after tho war. He has already ■visited tho largest towns in tho Midlands and North of England. .' Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward recently paid an official visit to tho offices of the N.Z.W.C.A., and wero received by Sir .Thomas' Mackenzie and • tho officers of the association.. They are now travelling in Scotland) and Ireland, and l are not expected to return to London until tho end of tho month. Lord Plunkct, formerly Governor and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand, who was for nearly two years a special constable and sergeant of the Headquarters Central Detachment in London, was (recently promoted an inspector. When a special constable ho did duty regularly, keeping guard outside Buckingham Palace for several months. Lord Plunket is also tlio hard-working chairman of the executive committee of tho N.Z.W.C.A. Mr. H. C. Caplen, solicitor, of Hanvtera, who came to England two months ago, is now in tho Officers' Cadet Artillery Brigade, in connection with the R.F.A , at Exeter, Devon. Mr. Caplen travelled via America, and had an opportunity of seeing how its industries are booming. Commenting; on recent figures of Now Zealand imports, which are showing so heavy a preponderance of American goods-, Mr. Caplen expressed the view that after the war there would he a reaotion against America, in • the Dominion. Tho Old 'Country has so much to do just now to keep its own and the Allied forces going with munitions and supplies, that it is impossible for her to give tlio energy which will then be released for trade expansion. Mr. F. 0. Richardson, of Auckland, has had his four sons and) one daughter all in England on loa-vo at ono time. Able-Seaman G. V. Richardson, who has been interned- in Holland, was able to got two months' leave in England. I'te. Frank Richardson, who is a stretcher-bearer in tho N.Z.M.C., was at the same time on ten days' leave. Driver Charles Richardson, of Messrs. Buddie and Richmond. of Auckland l , who also obtained ten days' leave, is in the Signalling Odrps the N.Z. Engineers, and Lieut. Freclk. Charles Richardson, of tlio Naval Brigade, was allowed three days''■ leave' to see his_ brother. Miss Noel Richardson,. who is a Red Cross nurse in the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Dublin, has' now returned to duty after a fortnight's holiday. Mr. F. C. Richardson" himself enlisted in tlio A.S.C. at tho beginning, of thd war, and travelled through Essex, commandeering and cutting hay for tlio troops. After nin-- months' service Mr. Richardson was discharged on account of his eyesight. Tho Royal Family of Sweden, like those of England, Spain, and Germany, is inclined to rim to boys. Prince Karl Auton Arthur,- the Duke of Connaught's nowest grandchild, is the fourth boy in a. nursery of five, tod neither his father nor his grandfather was blessed with a sister. A sheet metal worker, aged 25, passed for general service, who had '' been previously in a certified occupation, appealed at Southwark (England) recently for exemption on "domestic grounds." He said he Wanted timo to get married. The appeal was promptly refused. There is said to he a l;cissors famine in America. Formerly they were largely imported from Germany. Now that business with Germany is entirely shut off, the native supply must bo relied on, since England, the only other available source of production, has nono to spare'.