LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 11

LONDON PERSONALS

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

(FROM Oim OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 6th May. Mr. and Mrs Newton King and then son (New Plymouth) travelled from Sydney by the Wooltan. Their stay wil\ not bs of long duration, for on 14th June they wil! take their departure for New Zealand via Vancouver. Mr. King is here principally on business in connection with the marketing of New Zealand butter, cheese, and meat. Naturally, they will endeavour to see as much of the Mother Country as possible, and they will probably travel through England to Scotland' by motor-car.

Mr. A. E. Porritc. the latest New Zealand Rhodes scholar, who is at Magdalen. College,. Oxford, will represent New Zealand in the sprint races at the Olympic Games. Immediately after the Oxford and Cambridge athletic sports Mi-. Pbrritt and four Oxford undergraduates left for the Continent, and made a tour by motor-car of over 4000 miles. They started off through France hy way of the Chateau district and the Rhone Valley, and then along the French and Italian Rivieras, and so to Geneva.. All the principal towns of Italy were visited, but in none of these did they stay long, for their idea was to get a general impression of the country and its people, and the smaller towns. The party returned home by way of the Italian Lakes, and through the Simplon Tunnel, through Switzerland, and so into France by way of Pontarlier. A visit to Paris followed, and a tour through all the Anzae battlefieJds. Finally they visited Zeebrngge and Ostend. In the course of the tour Mr. Poiritt met quite a large number of New Zealande,rs, including Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Neame, Miss' M. Bond (Wanganui), Mr, and Mrs. J. R. M. Lennan (Hastings), Miss N. Sewell (Palmerston North), all of .whom were in Florence.

Mr. F. S. Paterson (Wellington) has come to London to take a course of art study, and in all probability he will go to St. Martin's School. The duration of his stay here is at present uncertain. Later he hopes to visit France and Scotland.

_Mr.' and Mrs. P. B. Lethbridge (Rangitikei) had a pleasant homeward. voyage by the Mooltan. They are travelling primarily on holiday, and the duration of their stay will be fairly long. Mr. Lethbridge expects to look into business matters as well, in his.capacity a3 chairman of the Rangitikei Power Board, and intends to inquire into the prospects for raising a loan on this side. As representing his local branch of the Navy League, Mr. Lethbridge has promised to attend the annual dinner, which always takes place on 21st October. Since arriving in \London the travellers have bought a motor-car, and in this they intend to make a general tour of Great Britain. The coming winter is to be spent on the Continent, and it will be the middle of 1925 before they leave for New Zealand.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Knight (Feilding) have just arrived after a very pleasant passage via Suez, and they are staying with Mr. King's bi'other in Surrey. They expect to be in the Mother Country until October.

Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Clarkson (Havelock North) have arrived in England after having spent three months in Italy. They have in contemplation a general tour of England and Scotland, and they will return to New Zealand in. October, via Capetown. A month is to be spent in South Africa en route. Mr. B. Chambers (Hawkes Bay) and his son left the Osterley at Naples and toured through Italy, Switzerland, and the South of France, on their way to London. They will remain in the metropolis for the next two months, and they will go back to New Zealand about the end of October.

The Misses E. and K. Booth (Carterton) reached London recently, after having spent six weeks in America, travelling across from San Francisco to New York, and next week they will be leaving for the South of England, . going thence to Scotland, and after that they will tour.in France and Italy.

Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Healey (Palirierston North) have booked their return passages by the Rotorua, to sail on 14th August, when they will be accompanied by Mr. Healey's sister and brother-in-law and their two sons. On arrival in England Mr. Healey was relieved to find that his aged mother, primarily on whose account he came to England, had improved very much in health. Mr. A. J. C. Fisher, A.R.C.A., has been appointed director of the Elam School of Art, Auckland, at a commencing salary of £480. This appointment has been made by Sir Bertram Mackennal and Sir James Allen from about twenty applicants. Mr. Fisher is a ■man under thirty years of age,'who has had no administrative experience, but the excellence of his work and his vigorous mentality have convinced the-select-ors _ that lie is the Tight man for the position—a young man with up-to-date ideas for a young country. He has a good war service, having joined the Worcester Regiment in September, 1914, and being demobilised in France after the Armistice; and he has excellent credentials from the masters of the Royal College of Art. Mr. Fisher is booked to sail for Auckland by the Kuahine on 3rd July.

Mr. ltpriald M. Grant'(Land and Income Tax Department, Wellington) and Mrs. Grant nve staying with Mr. IT. GJreer at Sydenham. Early next month alley will leave for the South Coast of England to stay with a relative of Mrs. Grant (Mrs. Wright) in Dorset, going thence to the West of England, the Isle of Matt, the Lake Country, and Scotland. Glasgow will be their headquarters while they visit the Highlands and Golspie, the old homo of the Grants. Mr. and Mrs. Grant hope to see something of France before they leave on their return voyage by the Moldavia, early in August. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. List (New Plymouth) arrived by the Remuera, and are .staying in Kensington. They, have in view a general tour of the United Kingdom, and they- hope to see something of the Continent later. The return journey will be made via Suez.

Lady Allen is to have chaise of the New Zealand stall at a, bazaar in aid of the Empire Navy League, to be held at Australia House on 22nd and 23rd May. Lady Allen has been promised some New Zealand produce, and the members of her working "bee" will be her assistants at the stall:

Sir Thomas Mackenzie and Sir James Mills: were ■ among. those who attended the annual service, in St. Jaul's Cathedral, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, in commemoration of St. George's Day. The service was conducted by the Right Rev. H. H. Montgomery, Prolate, resplendent in a mitre and cope of gold shot with pale blue. Indeed, the service is a very beautiful one, and a wondrous spectacle. Religious fervour combines with traditional symbolism and heraldic pomp, in a setting ii\ which the mantles of Saxon blue, lined with scarlet silk, of the Knights' Grand. Cross, with their collars and badges, contrast with the naval and military and diplomatic uniforms and levee dress. The service includes tho commemoration of the departed, the removal of the banners of the Jnip Knights' Grand Cross, and the affixing of new banners.