NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18994, 16 April 1925, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

[FROM OUR OWX CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, Mar. 10.

Sir Thomas Mackenzie has been asked to join the British Parliamentary commercial delegation which is to visit Rome, in April, to attend tho conferences to be held there to deal with international commercial questions. The Dean of Bristol, Dr. E. A. Barroughs, is leaving England this month on his visit to Australia and New Zealand.

In Convocation at Oxford this week the degree of M.A. was conferred by decree upon Mr. Kenneth Sisani, B.Lit., junior assistant secretary to the delegates o£ the University Press. Mr. Sisam is the 1910 New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, and belongs to Auckland. Since arriving in London early in January, Sir Donald McGavin, of Wellington", has been attending vaious hospital* to see all that is latest in surgical work, to which branch of medical science ha intends to devote his attention. Nest month he will go North to see Sir Berkeley Moynihan, and he will also visit Manchester, Newcastle and Edinbujjbt In May he expects to go to the Continent, when he will visit Berlin, Vienna and Paris. On November 18, Sir Donald and Lady McGavin will join the Aorangi at Vancouver. En route to this portj Sir Donald will spend about two months, visiting. New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland and the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota. Mr. Justice Stringer and Mrs. Stringer arrived here by the Port Hunter oo March 3. They travelled via Capo Horn, calling at Montevideo and Las Palmas. They will probably leave for tho Continent in a few days. They will later return to this country. An announcement appearing in the personal column of the Times reads"Two well-wishers of Melanesia read with thankfulness, the Rev. F. M- Molyneux's reply to the High Wycombe signatories. They suggest that the 2000 signatories show their appreciation of their vicar by contributing £1 each to the mission's deficit fund, to relievo the Assist an tr Bishop Designate of a great burden." A great many of the parishioners at High combe, of Mr. Molyneux, signed a peti. lion a few weeks ago asking him t-o reconsider his acceptance of the Melanesian call.