NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19289, 30 March 1926, Page 15

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

[from our own correspondent.] LONDON. Feb. 24, The Eev. W. P. Nicholson, the wellknown evangelist, is leaving Liverpool this week, accompanied by Mrs. Nicholson, for New York and Los Angeles, where their home and children are. Subsequently Mr. Nicholson, accompanied by bis 18-year-old daughter, Miss Jessie Nicholson, will leave for Australia and New Zealand. In those countries it is hoped that it will be possible to spend three years. After 1928 the Free Church Council has been given an option for his time, for South Africa. He knows Australia well, having been there with Dr. Chapman and Mr. Alexander during their campaign some years ago. Mr. and Mrs.*R. W. Downing (Mount Eden) are on a business visit. They came via Sydney and made short stays -en route at Colombo, Port Said and Naples. It is probable they will leave next month for Vancouver on their way home, visiting on the way the principal centres of the United States and Canada. In both countries they have friends and relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Dowding have found the English winter very trying and they say they will be delighted to be again in New Zealand.

Mr. 11. Croker (Rotorua), head of the electric-therapeutic branch of the New Zealand Government Tourist Department, arrived by the Remuera, on February 13, and at once set about making arrangements for his round of investigations connected with his work at the sanatorium. He will visit hospitals, baths, and sanatoria in England to see all that is latest in connection with massage and medical electricity-X-ray work, light treatments, sun baths, etc. The Rev. K. J. McFarland, son of Canon E. J. McFarland, of Auckland, who has been working in England for two and a-half years, is on the staff of All Hallows' Church, Barlcing-by-the-Tower, one of the most ancient and beautiful of the churches in London, and the Guild Church of Toe H. He is ono of the College ,of Mission priests, and has been associated with the Rev. P. B. Clayton in Toe H work for tho past two years, He has just concluded a mission at Tilbury Docks. He expects to return to. New Zealand at the end of the present year. Canon McFarland and his wife have been spending the winter in London, with their son. Miss McFarland is with them. Tho canon is looking forward shortly to visiting 'some of the military cemeteries in France and Belgium, and also to making a trip to Ireland—the home of his birth—and Scotland and Wales. The travellers will return to New Zealand at the end of the year. Major R. Miles, D.5.0., M.C. (Royal New Zealand Artillery), has graduated at tho Staff College, Camberley. Sir Henry and Lady Lunn left Southampton by the Aquitania for New York en route to New Zealand and Australia via Canada and Calcutta. Sir Henry will deliver the annual lecture of the Sulgrave Institute on George Washington's birthday. During the entire tour of tho Dominions he will lecture in connection with the Stockholm Conference, of which be was British treasurer. He is also, at the request of the committee of the League of Nations, lecturing on tho duty of the churches with regard to international relations, and, at tho request of the Secretary of State for the Dominions, on what the churches can do with regard to immigration.

Mr. F. C. Tregurtha (Auckland) has been for the past two years in England obtaining practical experience in electrical engineerieng and during that time he has been attached to the staff of the Metropolitan Vickers Company at Manchester. Mr. Tregurtha's stay has now come to an end. as'he is leaving by the Oronsav this week on his way home, via Australia, to resume his position on the staff of the Public World Department.