LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 151, 23 December 1926, Page 6

LONDON PERSONALS

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

LONDON, llth November.

Mr. F. J. Cummins (Warrant Supply Officer), and Mr. H. H. Rawlings, M.B.E. (Warrant Telegraphist) have bt^th been lent to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. . The former has been on the staff of the" Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport, and the latter has just arrived back from d.uty in H.M.S. Egmont at Malta. Both warrant officers will go out to the Do^ minion by the Rotorua. on 17th November.

Mr. Ernest Firth; F.E.C.0., organist and music master, Durham Street Church, Christchurch, has, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Firth, done a considerable amount of motoring in Scotland, England, and Wales since arriving in June. The cathedral cities were places of outstanding interest, Mr. Firth's main object being to hear the choirs and the organs. At present he is studying musical matters in Yorkshire. On 31st December he will leave London for Australian ports, and hopes to arrive in Christchurch by the, middle of February. Mrs. and Miss Firth will remain in England for somo time.

Mr. S. Irwin Crookes, who is a member of the Auckland City Council, has made a point of becoming acquainted with matters of municipal interest during his travels in the Mother Country. With Ijiis. Crookes,' their two daughters, and their son, he came by way of Vancouver and New York. Last month Mr. and Mrs. Crookes went to Amsterdani via Harwich and The Hook of Holland, where they were jbineil ,by their family. After seeing Venice, Florence, Rome, and Naples, they will embark at the last-named port for Australia by the Ormuz on sth December. A week will be spent in Sydney, and Auckland should be reached., on 17th June. ' .' . ,

Mr, J. L. Morrison (New Zealand representative fpr Messrs. J. and E. Morloy in Wellington) arrived.via Canada early in October. After spending a few'days in business in London ie went to Scotland to visit relatives, returning south this week. Mr. Morrison will leave for Wellington by the lonic, sailing on 31st December.

Mr. H. Black, 8.E., Canterbury College, has just completed i the laying-out and erection of a large hydro-electric power plant on account of Messrs. Boving and Co., Ltd., London, for a Chilean Nitrate Company, and he is now surveying and advising in connection with projected works pf a similar character in the State of Columbia, South America. He will return to London on the completion of his work there.

Major Bernard Hamilton, author, of "The Giant"—a t romance of the French Bevolufcion—is en route for Sydney and New' Zealand by the Orama, on a three months' fishing-trip. Until "The Giant" was published recently, Major Hamilton had abandoned a literary career- for a quarter of a century. His previous < book, "The Light,":was a "best-seller," but other interests intervened, and the author took up his pen again only after the war when he ljad become a permanent casualty. Major Hamilton is the head of a Sept of the Hamiltons—of which the Duke of AboAorn is the head. His son, Mr. Pllrick Hamilton, has recently published a successful first novel, "Craven House," and his daughter is the wife of Mr. Sutton Vane, author of "Outward Bound." Mr. Frank E. Crowther (Wellington) has been ia London for throe months. He has been devoting his holiday here to music, having attended the orchestral concerts at the Queen's Hall and the grand opera season. Now he is leaving for nino weeks' -Continental tour, to include Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Milan, Kome, and Paris. In each of these centres music again will be Mb chief interest. Mr. Crowther will come back to England before leaving for America about the middle of February. In that country a stay of three months will be made The Eev. Samuel Henderson and Mrs. Henderson expect to leave for New Zealand this week. It is mentioned by the "Primitive Methodist Leader" that Mr.. Henderson is an enthusiast for Met!-diet Union and speaks ,in glowing terms of the success which ! has attended union in New Zealand. "It has proved a God-send to all tho churches," he says. 85, Elect aereot.