NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19040, 10 June 1925, Page 13

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

[prom our own correspondent.] LONDON, May 8. Earl Jellicoc had an audience with the King at Buckingham Palace yesterday upon relinquishing his appointment as Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand. The Earl of Ranfurly was. present at the ceremony of handing over to Earl Grey of Falloden, on behalf of the National Trust, ihc deeds which secure to the nation certain lands about the Church of St. Giles, Stoke- Poges, made,famous as the scene which inspired Gray's "Elegy." Lord Ranfurly looks very well, and he takes the greatest in-* terest in New Zealand and its . people. Many, of course, are quite old friends, and he keeps in touch with them. In recent times he and Lady Ranfurly have been living more at their home at Dungannon.' (Ireland) than in London.

Sir James Allen and Miss Rona Allen arc travelling "overland to Toujon, to join the Ormonde for the Mediterranean cruise The ship will call at Helles and Chanak Bair, where British war memorials are to be unveiled. Other passengers who are going for this cruise include Major-General Sir Andrew Russell, Lord and Lady C. Lord Dormer, Lieut.-General Sir G. Ellison, and the Countess of Leicester. General Sir A. J. Godley and Lady Godley, and Sir A. Lawrence left London, and will join the ship at Toulon. Professor W. S. Vernon, who was for several years professor of physics at the Auckland University College, has been appointed head of the physics depaitment at the Cardiff Technical College. During the last four years ho has been' on the teaching staff at the Ihysical Laboratories at Manchester University* , and has been carrying out research work | on X-rays and crystal structure under Professor W. A. Bragg. Mr "J. A. Massam (Auckland), who has for the last two and a-half years been administrative officer in charge of the Elgeyo Native Reservo, Kenya Colony, has arrived in England to recuperate after a strenuous tour of duty there. Mrs. Massam is with her husband. The Rev. H. E. 'Bellhouse (Dunedin, and formerly of Auckland), has, since his arrival in London,. been staying with his son, the Rev. G. T. Bellhouse, M.A. Together they- are about to start on a tour of Devonshire and Cornwall, and then the "former will go to hisf" native county, Yorkshire, and the latter will go to Edinburgh. Mr. Bellhouse has booked his passace by the Orsova, which he will join at Port Said on August .5, after having made a tour in France, Switzerland, Italy, Palestine and Egypt. The Rev. G; T. Bellhouse gained his B.D. degree at Edinburgh University. Mr. Cecil Eady (Auckland) is a recent arrival, having travelled via Vancouver and New York. He is making a motorcar tour of England, and his return journey to New Zealand will be begun about the- end of July, via Suez. ' . . Mr. J. W. Gill (Auckland) is leaving this week for a Continental tour covering Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France. Scotland and Ireland will be visited later. Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Watson (Auckland), and Master Peter Watson are leaving for New Zealand by the Port Melbourne. Since arriving in England last August Dr. Watson has been specialising at the London Hospital in diseases of the S -Mr. E. Rawhiti Chi vers (Auckland) is eniovincc round of sight-seeing in London before settling down in a month s time on the staff of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, with the object ot obtaining English shipping experience. Mr. Chivers expects to be in for about two years, and then to return to the Dominion. . i ' Mr Ravmond Firth, M.A. (Auckland Grammar' School), has been for several weeks on tho. Continent, where lie lias been working amid the snows and pine forests of the Tyrol. He is still studying anthropology and' economics at the London School of Economics, and is at present engaged in research work in "Maori Economics" for his doctorate. He is working under Dr. Malinowski, the wellknown anthropologist, and author of several books on this subject-. Mr. Firth has reccntiv been elected a Fellow of the Roval Anthropological Institute. While on "the Continent he spent several ..in Venice on tho beautiful Lago di Garda 'and oil the Riviera, hut to the Tyrol ho devoted most of his available time. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wood (Auckland) expect to be in England for about three months. A Continental tour will follow, and the return journey to New Zealand will be made via Switzerland, Italy and Egypt. A month or so will be spent in Australia, and New Zealand should be reached early in January next. At present tho volunteers for the Melanesian Mission include . Mr. Joseph Williamson, St. Augustine's College. Canterbury, the Rev. R. I. Sheard, Curate of Brighouse, Mr. G. E. Termor Leggatt, lay reader at Olney. Bedfordshire, and Miss A. E. Satchell, 8.A., New Zealand University. The London representatives. of the mission _ consider that Miss Satchell's experience in educational work should be of great value. The Literary Guide contains a review of "Reminiscences and Maori Stories," by the late Captain Gilbert Mair, "a | remarkable man who has left behind him ! some curious reminiscences." One matter 1 which greatly interested this reviewer was his description of'the vanishing race of Morioris. As the result of an accident, the death 1 occurred at St. Mary' 3 Hospital, Paddington, on April 20. of Mr. William Warren, C.E., M.E., F.R.G.S. Mr. Warren was well known in South America and in Auckland.