NEW ZEALANDER'S ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 22, 20 October 1917, Page 11

NEW ZEALANDER'S ABROAD

(I'Voin the "British-Australasian.-") London, August IC. Second-Lieutenant W. Atliol Mills (Wellington), N.Z.i1.]! , ., is at the .\ T ew Zealand Depot, Torquay. Sister M. Milno Hovey, JJ.Z.A.N.S. (Ivuipoa), is in London "on leave from

i''runce. Mrs. E. W. Burridgo (Invercargill) is engaged at the Now Zealand Y.M.C.A. at VValton-on-Thames. Mr. 1\ M. B. Mshor represented New Zealand at the Empire Parliamentary Association luncheon on August 14. Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Hitchcock are in the country for 6ome weeks. Mrs. Hitchcock, who has been ill, is bettor. Sub-Lieutenants W. B. Ingram and C. li. S. Palruor, both of Auckland, have arrived in London to join the Motor Yacht Patrol. Captain Brocts, M.C., formerly of the Worcestershire Kegiment, has gone to Now Zealand to take up the duties of gymnasium instructor to the Forces. An excellent kinematograph film has lwen taken depicting the training of tho N.Z.E.F. in this country, and is being shown privately in London. Messrs. Harry Driver (Waipawa) and .Tack H. Batey (Stratford) belong to the B.N. Motor Boat Beserve, and are serving at an East Coast naval base.

Mrs. Black, widow of tho late Liout. G. 11. Black, N.Z.M.8., who was killed in notion in France, is tho daughter of Mr. Allan Strang, well known as <i polo player in New Zealand.

Lieutenant A.. G. Jennings, M.C., Northumberland Fiisiliers, received his decoration at Buckingham Palace last week, and has rejoined his regiment on the Western front. Lieutenant Jennings comes from New Plymouth, and has lost two brothers in tho war.

Tho many friends of Sir Jame.s and Lady Mills will bo glad to hear that their son, Lieutenant P. Mills, eervhig with the British Forces, is alive. He took part in the exceptionally Mtter fighting on the Flanders coast in July, and was posted as missing. News has just been recoived in London that ho is a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe.

Mdllo. Margo, who has toured AustraI lasia, is now on the Moss tour. She w i a lady magician, aud one of her pet illuI sions is turning plain water into wine. [ This trick led to a curious incident at a ' prohibition town in New Zealand. The police, it seems, objected to nny intoxicating liquor being made, ami the illusion was at first prohibited. Finally the law officers decided in Margo's favour. Mr. H. Deveuish Skinner, D.C.M. (Wellington), is now engaged in research work at Christ's College. Cambridge. Ho is a graduato of Victoria College, Wellington, and allhough a comparatively young iiinn, he has taken a great interest in. and is regarded as nil auUiorily on, Maori customs and i radii ions, lie served with the Of ago Infantry in Oallipoli, and was invalided to England' and for fiomo tifiio was a corporal at I he. New Zealand Military Headquarters, lie was discharged last May, and at once utilised the opportunity to continue his studies at Cambridge.