NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

» fFEOM OUB OWN CORSESPOKBEST.] LONDON, Jan. 10. Recent arrivals in. England by the Tainui' included Mr. S. Turner, F.R.G.S., and his daughter, Miss M. Turner. The former is now devoting his time to business interests and to making arrangements to settle his daughter as a student at the Royal College of Music, she being the holder of the New Zealand 1921 Exhibition. The day after landing Mr. Turner had a very favourable interview with Sir Francis Younghusband, presided of the Royal Geographical Society, aaA also with the Alpino Cluu, which has extended to him a very cordial welcome. As all New Zealand knows, it is Mr. Turner's ambition to have the opportunity of trying his luci in the conquest of Mount Everest. He looks upon . tie accomplishment of this feat from a national aspect, holding the view that the prestige of the British Empire is involved. Mr. Turner ha s to-day left on a brief visit to Leeds. Mr. F. M. B. Fisher is once more at j Cannes, playing in the lawn tennis tournaments. I Ljeut.-Colonel H. Avery, D.S.O. (Wellington), has finished his course at the Staff College. Camborley, and is at present engaged at th<J War Office: He will leave for New Zealand about the first week of April. Mrs. S. Hurst Scager (Christchurch), who accompanied her husband to L"es Quesnoy recently, where he is engaged on business in connection with the war memorials, had the misfortune to slip., on the ice and fracture her arm. After' the bone had been set, she was able to remain with Mr. Seager in France for several days, but she is now once again in the Isle of Wight, and is making very favourable progress.