NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19470, 28 October 1926, Page 12

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

AUCKLANDERS ON TOUR. GOVERNOR'S NEW SECRETARY. [FBOM oca, OWN COE&ZSPONDENT. ] LONDON, Sept. 25. In the official Gazette appears the announcement of the appointment of Captain E. I\ 0. Boyle to be Military Secretary to the Governor-General of New Zealand. Captain Boyle, who was born in 1893, was commissioned as secondlieutenant to the. Royal Scots Fusiliers in September, 1913. He was promoted lieutenant at the beginning of 1915, and captain early in 1916. He served as a battalion adjutant for nearly two years. He was placed on half-pay ia July, Captain Bovle took part, in the Great War, and is the possessor of the 1914 Star, t.he British War Medal and the Victory Medal. In 1921 he was appointed A.D.C. (extra) to the Governor of Bengal. Captain Boyle is a relative of Lady Alice Fergusson. The new appointment is dated from September 10. The Rev. A. C. Randerson (Eotorua), will, with Mrs. Randerson, leave for New York on October 2. They will travel via the; Canadian-Pacific route to Vancouver, and connect with the Aorangi on October 20. Mr. and Mxs. J. E. Downes (Auckland), who arrived in August, have booked their return passages by the Osterley due to leave on October 20. They have lately returned from Paris. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Low (Remuera), are making a comparatively short stay in Great Britain. They recently arrived from the United States and Canada, and, after visiting Scotland and Wales, they will leave for the Continent. Mr. A. W. Bethune (Rotorua), and Mr. James Macalister (Invercargill), have been travelling in Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark, and have now returned to London. Since leaving King's College, Mr. Wyndham Hewett has been travelling in Australia, South Africa and France. He is now leaving on a trvp to Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. He has taken a studio at Chelsea. Mr. David L. Nathan (Auckland), bas booked his return passage to New Zealand by the new liner Mataroa, which is to leave Southampton on November 5. Mrs. Nathan will go to Paris and stay there until next January, when she will connect with the Ormonde, en route for Australia and New Zealand, making a stay of a fortnight in the East. Under the heading " New Zealand in Town," the Daily Chronicle observes: " Sir James and Lady Parr, the new representatives for New Zealand, have already made many public appearances and are making themselves very popular in London. Education has always been Sir James Parr's fetish; because of his energies New Zealand has gained much of the reputation wbich makes her ahead of most countries educationally. If Sir James works in that Strand office as he did in Maoriland he'will achieve wonders for his ' Antipodean England,' and I gather that the influence of his energies is already being felt." Mr. F. B. Lewis (Norfolk), who has travelled extensively in most parts of the world, indulging in fishing and other kinds of sport, will leave for New Zealand on September 25, travelling jvia Canada and joining the Aorangi at Vancouver. His object is to fish in New Zealand trout streams, but after reading accounts of the swordfishing he is anxious to try his hand at this. Mrs. Lewis will accompany him. Mr; and Mrs. Henry Wilson (Auckland), are going to New Zealand on a visit. They have booked their passages by the Kmpress of Scotland, sailing on September 26, and from Quebec they wil cross to Vancouver to connect with th<* mail steamer. Mr. and Mrs. John Stormont (Auckland), visited a number of the principal Canadian and American cities on their way to England. They are travelling mainly for pleasure with the primary object of seeing the land of their birth and renewing acquaintance with relatives and old" friends. They have made an extended tour in Scotland 3 and they will also visit Ireland. Mr. E. H. Hiley, formerly general manager of the New Zealand Railways, has arrived from Rhodesia, where he acted as adviser to the Rhodesian Government.