NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

( (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON". 28th March. Since Mr. S. Hurst Seager's article on the "Lighting of Picture Galleries" appeared in "The Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects," the author has received a, number of letters from prominent architects and others personally interested in the subject. One is from Mr. A. T. North, Engineering and Associate Editor of the "American Architect." Mr. North expresses the greatest interest in Mr. Seager's, system of lighting, and has asked for permission to reproduce the article and the illustrations in the "American Architect." News has been received from Paris . that the French "Femina-Vie Heufeuse" Committee has chosen for the FeminaVie Heureuse priz^ Mr. 'Gor.don Bottomley's play "Gruach." The vote was unanimous. The other books recom- ; mended by the French committee were "Memoirs of a Midget," by Mr. Walter de la Mare, and "The Garden Party," by Katherine .Mansfield, but owing to the death of Miss Mansfield, only two were voted on. At the time of her death. Miss Mansfield (Mrs. Middleton Murry) was preparing for publication another book of short stories. This colume is to be published in the spring-, and it will be entitled "The, Dove's Nest and Other Stories." Mr. James Thompson, M.A., the holder of a Travelling French Scholarship, of the New Zealand University, is at Poitiers, France, He expects to be joined by Mrs. Thompson and their two children some time in July. The many friends in New Zealand of Lieut. A. W. Mildenhall. Chief Clerk of Works at G-allipoli for the Imperial War Graves Commission., will regret to. hear of the bereavement he has sustained. through the sudden death of his wife. Accompanied by her sister and infant daughter, Mrs. Mildenhall Jeffc Turkey for England on a visit to her parents early in February. During her journey by rail through to Manchester she was taken ill in the train and died at her parents' home forty-eight hours later. Apparently during the journey she contracted Continental influenza" and died from heart failure.