NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME
! , NEWS OF 'AUOKLANDERS. : "''■■ [from ■.; our own [. correspondent.] , . , TA>m>Cm. June 15. Mr. Leo. M. Myers, late president of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, has recently been elected chairman iof the Barnsley and District Traction Company, and ohairman of th© York Woollen District Tram and '.Bus Company, two '■ largoundertakings '■. in Yorkshire. : " He is also Chairman cf. the ; Aldershofc ?; District and . Traction Company, .> an important business concern which runs nearly eighty buses through the most delightful parts 01 Hampshire and Surrey. \- The service, moreover, is one that feeds the railways and the prospects ;■: for successful : development in the future are ; distinctly good.; : Sir ; James ; Allen; has gone' to Oxford this evening to be the t guest of honour iof the New; Zealand students at a dinner to be held ;at Magdalen College. New Zealand ': students; from • Cambridge: will ; also be the guests of' the ' Oxford men. > The High Commissioner will■; remain; at : Oxford" overnight, his host being Sir Herbert Warren, Master of ; Magdalen. Mr. Phil. T. Birch, Auckland, had ;an extended;tour in ",the United States; before coming to England;; and since ; arriving here he has been to all ; the principal centres ,of the Midlands as well as to Glasgow and Edinburgh. ■ Mr. Hurst * Seager is in France engaged chiefly upon work in connection with :, the Le Quesnoy Memorial. :■ >■■*-■-- Mr. and ; Mrs. H. E. "Voile; Auckland, and their?; daughter have left London } for the Continent. : Their programme includes a tour through Italy, the Austrian Tyrol, through Germany to Berlin, and a short stay in Holland. - ■' - Mr. j,nd Mrs. H. ; Tattersall, Auckland, will make .-.. a ; general ? tour of % the: United Kingdom after spending a few weeks in London. s - ' - • Shortly after arrival in London by" the Port Napier Mr. ; A. Davis, Auckland, went through to Cambridge ;to visit ; Mr! A; T. Sinclair, r formerly assistant classics lecturer ■• at k Auckland: University-, College, and now a 'student': at Trinity College, Cambridge. From-Cambridge Mr, Davis will go to Bedford, where he intends to stay for an indefinite time. . Mr. •■= D. Roland, Te ; Aroha, "who' left New Zealand at; the beginning ■; of : the year, has just arrived in London.;, After travelling through: Canada and the United States he took passage, by. the Majestic, for Cherbourg, and went by way of Paris I and Switzerland to Budapest to'•; pay his respects ;to ■ his parents,, whom he had not soon for 20 years. - ..■/■.'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18458, 23 July 1923, Page 8
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