LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 121, 22 May 1926, Page 6

LONDON PERSONALS

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD!

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDCJN, 26th February. Tho death is reported from Paris of Major E. O. Applegarth, formerly of the Land and Survey Department, Auckland. Major Applegarth served throughout the war, and in 1917 he joined the American Bed Cross, with the rank of' captain. His funeral took place in Paris on Bth-February, his remains being interred in Pere la Chaise Cemetery.

Mr. H. M. Smeaton (Auckland) expects to leave London on his return to New Zealand by the Mooltan, on 12th March. He will break his journey at Port Said for four weeks to make a tour in Palostine and Egypt, and he will continue his journey to.New Zealand via Australia by the Maloja. His daughter, Miss Bona Smeeton, will remain in England for probably two years. She has entered .for a course of study at tho Bidgcjlaiuls Bible College, preparatory to taking up mission work in tho foreign field.

Dr. David M. Mitchell (Huntorville) has been in Edinburgh for six months for professional experience and study. He took his F.R.C.S. Edinburgh degree in the autumn. Dr. Mitchell returned to London a month ago and has been doing post graduate work. This week ho leaves for Birmingham to take,,'a special surgical course of two months' duration. About the end of April he expects to leave for New Zealand.

Mr. James Cook, holder of the Sawtell Travelling Art Scholarship, arrived by the Eotorua, and after spending a week in London went north to Edinburgh, where he has entered upon a course of study at the Edinburgh College of Art. He will be in the northern capital until the end of June, when he expects to come to London, but at present he has not made any definite arrangements regarding the school where he will continue his studies.

Mr. Frank W. Luke, A.M.1.C.E., M. Inst., Struct. E., son of Sir John and Lady Luke (Wellington) has left for the United States, where he expects to spend a few months before returning to New Zealand. For three years Mr. Luke was in the employ of Messrs. Dorman, Long, and Co., structural engineers, and Sir Douglas Fox and Partners, consulting engineers, London, gaining experience with both firms. He left Southampton by the Berengaria this week.

The Eev. E. A. Gillespie (lately vicar of Pahiatua) with Mrs. Gillespie, returned to England last October by Canada and the United States. Private affairs necessitated his permanent return to the Mother Country. After visiting relatives in Ireland they came to Lon-don,-and during the early part of the winter Mr. Gillespie worked in a large parish in Maida Vale. At the beginning of the year he went to Guildford as private chaplain to Loseley PaTk, an old manor house founded by a brother of Sir Thomas More, the famous Chancellor. It was here that the heroes of the Reformation stayed. Some of the cottages are over 400 years old and the hall is full of pictures and of old armour, and the original letters of Cranmer re the Beformation are preserved. In addition to his work at, Guildford, Mr. Gillospie comes to • London . every Sunday evening to take a mission service in the Maida Vale parish. He has been asked to accept a senior curacy there, with full direction of the organisation of the work. There are 22,000 people in thp parish. Mr. Gillespie said to me: "New Zealand is extraordinarily friendly, as already the first offertory for Easter' has reached me from there. It does one good to feel that one has not lost one's friends though seas divide us." While he-was in London recently Mr. Gillespie came across Archdeacon Julius unexpectedly haunting a "January Sale" shop, and he lately has had a pleasant meeting with the Eev. Harold 'Anson.

Mr. B E. Ward (Wellington and Napier) is in the ten finalists for the Home Scholarship in Architecture. He has been studying in London atthe University Italier, and has been working, as draftsman to Mr. F. W. Troup, a wellknown London architect who is at present engaged on alterations to the Bank of England. If Mr. Ward is successful, the scholarship will entitle him to three years' study in Eomc. Lieut. Lord Louis F. A. V. H.. Mountbatten, X.C.V.0., 8.N., has been appointed to Centurion, additional, as Flag-Lieutenant to Vice-Admiral Sir Eudolf W. Bentinck, and as (S.) and W/T Officer, Reserve Fleet. Miss A. H. Cole (Carterton) returned to England by the Port Bowen to take up a position in a London Settlement. Mrs. Eleanor Hughes, the well-known New Zealand artist, is represented by some of her work at the exhibition now in progress at the Women's International Art Club at the Suffolk street Galleries. Mr. H.- Belshaw (formerly Tutorial Class Lecturer in Economics at Canterbury College), who came to England to do research in economics at Cambridge University for the degree of Ph.D., is expecting to leave for Australia by the Ormonde, at the end of May, to take up the position of lecturer in economics at Hobart, which was offered him a year ago, and which was accepted on condition that the position would be held open until he was able to complete the Ph.D. degree before leaving. This the Senate at Hobart agreed to. Mr. Belshaw will be accompanied by his wife and child. Mr. A. E. Porritt (New Zealand and Magdalen) and Mr. V. B. V. Powell (Clifton and Caius), have been selected to represent their universities at. the inter-varsity sports, to take, place at Queen's Club. Mr. P.oritt will be in the 100 yards anil the 200 yards hurdles, and Mr. Powell will compete in the long jump. At the Oxford University athletic sports, a few days ago, Mr. Porritt won the firs'- heat in the 100 yards, but he was beaten in the final by Mr. Thconen (Swarthmoro and Exeter). The winner got in by six inches in the time 10 l-ssee. Porritt was also third in the second heat of the'l2o yards hurdles. On Bth March, His Majesty received in audience Lord Irwin (Viceroy and Gocernor-General-Designate of India), who kissed hands upon his appointment, and received from the King the insignia of a Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India and of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire. His Majesty also invested Lady Irjivin with the insignia of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India. Lord and Lady Irwin subsequently dined with the King and Queen. At the King's Levee a few days ago, at Buckingham Palace, Second-Lieuten-ant Edward Chaytor, Eoyal Artillery, on appointment, was presented to Ilia Majesty by the Secretary of State for War. Mr. Chaytor is a son of MajorGeneral Sir E. W. C. Chaytor, New Zealand Military Forces, and,a gradu'ato of the Eoyal Military Academy, Woolwich. His Majesty the King, Colonol-in-Chief of the Corps of Eoyal Engineers, has signified his intention of visiting the School of Military Engineering. Chatham, and R. E. Depot, and of lunching in the Headquarters Moss ono day during March.