NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17178, 4 June 1919, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

[FROM OUR OWN corrxspoxdekt.] LONDON, April 8, 1 Referring to the appointment of Sir 1 Ernest Rutherford to the Cavendish f Mr !of Physics at Cambridge, the Times re- [ marks that ho is " a worthy successor to the very distinguished line which began With Clerk-Maxwell, was continued by Lord Raylcigh (now Chancellor of the University), and ha* for the lust 36 years been held by Sir Joseph Thomson, 0.1t." A popular figure in shipping circles in London has recently passed away in tin death, at the age of 66, of Mr. George L. King, secretary of the New Zealand Shipping Company. Mr. King joined the company a-quarter of a century ago as assistant manager, and for nuray years had held the position of joint- manager. The Rev. Norman Dixon, C.F., who volunteered for the Melanesian Mission two years ago, is being demobilised, and will sail for the Pacific in two months. Dr. Russell Marshall is resigning his post with the Melanesian Mission, for whom he has served for some vears. Dr. Marshall was with the R.A.M'.C. in Palestine, where his health suffered consider* ably. Mr. G. A. C. Ulrich has been appointed manager's assistant to the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation at Obuasi, in West Africa. Mr. Ulrich graduated at the Otago School of Mines, and was for a time engineer at the Komata Reefs. Ha joined the British section of the .V.Z.E.F at Bulford, and was recently discharged after four years' service. " . Recent callers at the High Commissioner's office have included:— Mr. T. G. Kissling, Parnell; Mrs. J. E. Anderson, To Puke, and Mr. W. H. Ha!!, Auckland,