NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 12

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

i [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] LONDON, October 19. Mr. Charles Towle, " Auckland, :is in London at present temporarily practising architecture. After Christmas he "will go to Italy and Franc© on a sketching tour but he will be back for the opening of the British Empire Exhibition. - Mrs. F. >A. Hcmibrook > (Miss % Ettie Rout) sailed ; last j weekV for;; the United States, where she expects to remain for about three months. / ' ' / Captain ~ Percival H. Hall-Thompson, C.M.G.", late Naval Adviser; to the New Zealand Government has been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral to date from October ; 3. . • „> ' 4 - A recent arrival , from Auckland is. Mr. C. Mervyn Abel, who travelled by way "w South Africa. He will be attending the Motor Show and s manufacturing centres of the Midlands. At an earlyrdate hist marriage will take place to Miss 1 Ramage, assistant matron" of St. Dunstan'b, whom whom Mr. Abel met during the war.. Return passages have been booked early in December by the Port Sydney, v Sir Donald and Lady McGavin are about to bring to a close their visit to the Mother Country. They came primarily to see their sou who will shortly be passing out of Dartmouth and i. entering ' the Royal Navy. They are going back, via the United States joining the Tahiti at San Francisco in November. , k s s '

Mr. Shayle Gardner, Auckland, is now on the way to recovery after • his very serious attack of typhoid which developed shortly after his , return from Brittany; where he bad been spending a short seaside holiday. He is, of course, still in the nursing home, and it will be a considerable time yet before he completely recovers his strength. Mr. Gardner hopes that it will be possible for "him to I- go to the South of France early in the New Year and he contemplates: later returning to. New Zealand. Recent visitors to the nursing home have included Sir - James l and Lady A'llpn. > - ■' Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pagni, Auckland,' travelled overland from Naples where they landed in June, * and they have • since visited Italy, France, and Belgium. While in Italy they, motored through the Italian Battlefield area, and of course they included all the principal Italian centres oh their tour. w Mr. and; Mrs. Pagni - are at present in London and thev boon to »r av? l through to Scotland and Wales if the weather proves .favourable. lh*-« have booked return passages by the Montdare, sailing from Liverpool on November 23. After visiting Canada and the States they will connect with the Makura, at Vancouver, in January. l . Mr. C. F. Gardner." Auckland, and Mr. C. H. Wvnard, New. Plymouth, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute. '■ ' i , Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office have included the following Aucklanders: Capt. i and '!*■, Mrs. T. S. Weston and Miss Alston - Mr. 0. M. Abel; Mr. H. W. Snelling; Mr. and Sirs. Dennison and Miss Bentiison; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pagni; and Mr. f C. r sM. Thrana. 1 '• \ -V' ; . - i •