NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 134, 7 June 1923, Page 6

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

(FROM ODE OTTN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 20th April. Mr. T. Queree (Wellington) left Tilbury to-day by the China for a tour of Spain, after, which he will embark at Gibraltar.

Mrs. Donald Donald (Masterton),' with the Misses Morrison and Miss Isobel Andrew (Nelson), will make many tours together while they are in England. The Misses Morrison and Miss Andrew have left for a short visit to Holland. In June the party will go to Norway. Recently-elected Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute are: Messrs. J. W. G-. Brodie and C. A. Griffiths! Wellington).

Mr. Prank Moore, for many years one of the leading members of the Birmingham Repertory Company, has returned to that city after a visit to Australia _ and New Zealand which lasted for eighteen months. He did a good deal of acting with Mr.. Alan Wilkie's Shakespearean company, touring Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Mr. Moore really went out for a holiday, but he felt he. would like to go on the boards there, and found no difficulty in securing a footing. In an interview he states that the actor's profession is held in high esteem in Australia: All leading artists who arrive are given a civic recaption, and the actors are invited to the State garden parties and such functions. All this was a great contrast to the neglect often manifested by the municipal authorities in England, especially in the matter of official patronage of tha theatre. One reason for this pleasant state of affairs was probably the fact that the small towns in New Zealand were honeycombed with municipal theatres. The municipality, while not running the theatre, provided it as an amenity. '

Mr. and Mrs. W. Campbell (Wellington) and their son have bought a motor-car, and they are about to leave for a tour through England, Wales, and Scotland. They will be accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Harland (Wellington).

Mr. J. Nairn (Feilding) underwent a surgical operation this week at Gordon's Hospital. During the Easter ha visited Lancashire, a portion of the Midlands, and Newcastle-on-Tyne. Mr v Nairn is an exchange teacher, and he is at present under the direction of the London County Council. Mrs. Elliott Meade (Nelson) has arrived with her son and daughter. The latter, Miss Doreen Meade, is to go to Oxford to complete her education. After visiting the United Kingdom and the Continent, Mrs. Meade and her son will leave for New Zealand, via Suez, completing the journey after a stay in' Sydney. • .

The late Mrs. Kathleen Mansfield Murry (better known as Katherine Mansfield, the New Zealand authoress, and wife of Mr. John Middleton Murry) left property in the United Kingdom | valued for', probate at £266. She left all her MSS.. notebooks, papers, letters, etc., to her husband, with the re.quest: "I should like him to publish as little as possible, and to tear up and burn as much as possible. He will understand that I desire to leave as .few traces of my camping-ground here as possible."

Lieutenant-Colonel A. Buckley (Parliamentay Secretary, Overseas Trade Department) ■ has made known the names of the members of the Overseas Settlement Committee. They are: LieutenantColonel Buckley * (phairman); the Hon. W. Ormsby Gore, M.P. (deputy-chair-man); Mr. H. B. Betterton, M.P. (de-puty-chairman); Mr. T. C. Macnaughten (vice-chairman); Mr. J. Ambrose; Mr. G. F. Baker (Board of Trade); Mrs. Harrison Bell; "Viscount Burnham; Sir William Clark (Department of Overseas Trade); Mr. L. Cnthbertson (Treasury); Mr. A. B, Lowry, • C.B. (Ministry' of Health); Mr. J. Paterson (Ministry of Labour); Colonel L. H. B. Pope-Hen-nessy (War Office); Dame Meriel Talbot; Mr. Oscar Thompson; Mr. Christopher C. Tumor; Mr. J. Wignall, M.P.; Mr. Caesar H. Wilson, M.P. (acting for Mr. Wignall); Sir William Windham.

At the Gieves Art Gallery, in Bond street, yesterday, three artists—Mies Baldwin Warn, Miss Dorothea Durrant, and Miss M. Poyntz MacEwan— opened an exhibition of their paintings, which will be attracting considerable attention during the next fortnight. Mias Warn will be remembered by a good many friends in New Zealand, for she was out there from 1908 to 1912. and among other works she painted portraits of a number of prominent people. Miss Durrant went to New Zealand a little later, and also remained until 1912. During the war they devoted themselves to growing vegetables vigorously at their homes .near Marlborough, Wiltshire, for the craft of the artist, except for occasional portraits, was not in great demand. It is evident from the pictures now on exhibition that since the war they have both been far afield, for one sees landscape paintings executed in' Corsica', Borne, Greecn. Spain, .and Norway, besides in many parts of England. , Miss Warn also has pictures which are reminiscent of her stay in New Zealand. Among these is one of Mount Cook, taken' under storm skies with a foreground which includes a curving glacier stream with boulders on which the light plays fitfully; one of Lake Tekapo caught in one of its less placid moods; and one of Mount Thomas. Miss Durrant also has a study of Mount Sefton, with the green hillside and the akeleton trees left by former bush fires as a foreground. Among the portraits by Miss Warn is one of Captain E. 0. Mousley, taken just after he had arrived back from Asia Minor, where he had been a prisoner of war since'the fall of Kut.