ABOUT PEOPLE

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 32, 6 August 1921, Page 9

ABOUT PEOPLE

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 9th June. Since the Rev. F. Stubbs (late of Roterua) left New Zealand 18 months ago, he has travelled extensively in the Far East, the countries visited having included China, Japan, Manchuria, Korea., Malay States, and Burma; and he did 1000 miles up the Irawadi. On several occasions during his travels he nad the opportunity of delivering lectures,' on New Zealand to University students in the Far East, and he found intense interest exhibited by them in what he had to tell of the Dominion. Mr. Stubbs anticipates spending the next two years travelling in Europe^ While in Korea he met his son, Dr. O. M. Stubbs, who was lately spending a' portion c f his leave from the Western Union University, Chengtu, in New Zealand. Mr. H. 0. Hunter (managing director of Messrs. Bannatyne and Hunter, Wellington), is on a combined visit of business and pleasure, accompanied by Mrs. Hunter and their son and daughter. In a little over three months' time they intend to start on their return trip by way of Canada and the United States, finally joining a, mail boat to San Francisco. New Zealand should be reached about the end of November.

Lieutenant George Herbert Clifton, New Zealand Staff Corps, attached 1 to the Ist S. and M., Indian Army, has been awarded the Military Cross for services with the Waziristan Force.

Mr. H. Jaggard (Feilding) recently returned to England after an absence of 26 years. He is now visiting relatives, and, in addition to a general tour of England, he expects'to visit the battle area in France. Mr. Jaggaord, who is a well-known sheep! breeder in tho Dominion, is interested in the state of the meat trade in London, and he has already visited the market 1 at Smithfield, and met some of' the leading shippers. Naturally he will Be interested in the study of agriculture generally throughout his travels. ' . \ Before leaving for the Continent, six weeks ago, Mr. H. W. Lawrence, F P C.S., (Chemical Research Laboratories, Johnsonville), sat for the Fellowship examination of the Institute of Chemistry, and on his return to London this week is gratified to find that he has been successful. Accompanied by Mns. Lawrence, he went as far ac Naples, making en route a general tour of the battlefield areas of France and Belgium. Then, via Paris, they travelled through Switzerland and Italy, and they- saw something, too, of Germany. Mr. Lawrence marvelled to see the rate at which restoration is being made in Belgium, where everyone seems to be nourishing, where factories are at full power again, and where house-building is very general, new material always being used. In August Mr. Lawrence will be in Montreal, at the annual meeting of the Society <yt Chemical Industry, whose sittings will be held in the M'Gill University, and then he will go on to New York, the delegates having been invited thither by the American Chemical Society. , ; ' ■". ' Among wills recently proved is that of Dr. F. W. Pennefather, LL.D., of Rathsallagh, Colbinstown, Wicklow,,who died on 6th February. His estate has been valued at £41,297. The testator bequeathed certain silver plate and £6000 for scholarships to St. Columbus College, Rathfarnham; £900 to the Church Representative Body, Dublin; £300 for increasing the stipend of the Rector of Dunlavin; £300 for increasing the stipend of the Rector of Ballynure; and £300 towards the endowment of a pre; bendall stall of Dunlavin, in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin; £500 to St. John's College, Hurstpierpoint,' for a, scholarship; £200 to the Bishop of Adelaide; £100 to the Church of England Waifs and Stray*,' Society; £100 to the Irish Protestant Orphan Asylum; £75, and any of his theological, religious, classical, and poetical books, to the Bishop of Dunedin Mr. P. Brandon (Wellington) has arrived in England, and is entering at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he intends to study law. Mr. C. N. Mac Lean (Napier), who has been at Jesus College, Cambridge, •for two years, is going. out to Dijon University, France. There were seven competitors in the final test for the Rome Scholarship, 1921 (offered for * painting,, sculpture, and architecture), of whom three were New Zealanders. The result has just been made known, the successful entrant being Mr. S. Rowland Pierce, who is an original member of the Architectural Association Atelier and the holder of an appointment en the staff of the Architectural Association. He was born at St. Leonards in 1896, and received his first technical training at the Hastings School of Science and Art. The Rome SchcUrohip in Architecture, of the value of £250 a year and tenable for three ,years at the British School at P#mo, is open to British students under 30 years of age. Mr. E. W. Armstrong (Feilding, Corporal, W.1.R., No. 57000, the holder of a N.Z.E.F. Scholarship) comes second, and so receives the Henry Jarvis Studentship, which is 'bf the Value of £250 a year and tenable for two years at the British School ii Ronr*. Mr. Armstrong has been studying at the Architectural Association for two yearn, and a year ago be passed his A.R.1.8.A. examination. The awards were made by the Faculty of AichitecUu-6 of the British School at Rome.