NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

DOINGS OF AUCKLANDERS. [FROM ottk own correspondent.] LONDON, July 13. Mr. and Mrs. R. Lowry (Auckland) recently arrived in England. After a short stay in London they will go to Belfast, where Mr,. Lowry has brothers, and then to Ballymena, where relatives oi Mrs. Lowry reside. Their son, who is travelling with them, has been interesting himself in the various markets, including Smithfield. About a year's absence from New Zealand is contemplated Dr. F. R. Leonard (Papatoetoe) . travelled by the Kia Ora, as medical officer, and arrived a few days ago, having come via Montevideo He will make a holiday round of travel before settling down to professional work and study m London. _ Mr. D. Robertson (Auckland) left London for Brussels this week, travelling by air He will spend some weeks on the Continent, and on his return to England he will go to Scotland. Th» journey to New Zealand will be via Canada. Mr. J." A. Dunning (Auckland), tha New Zealand Rhodes scholar of 1925, has completed his three years' residence at New College, Oxford. Mr. Dunning will leave for New Zealand by tha Corinthic next week, and he hopes to spend the remainder of the year in Auckland before rejoining the stafi of John McGlashan College, Dunedin. The college will then have two Rhodes scholars on its staff, as the he'admaster, Mr. Colin M. Gilray, was New Zealand s representative at Oxford in 1907, Mr. Dunning, who has just taken his degree at Oxford, represented his college in cricket and hockey, hilt unluckily did not get his cricket blue. Ho had been bowling with success for Oxford in, matches against the counties, but an . injury to his finger spoiled his chances of permanent inclusion in the University eleven. The Rev. A. M. Eliiffe (Auckland, and late of Knox College, Dunedin), has recently completed an extensive cycling trip through the west and sonth of England. Mr. Eliiffe, who arrived ~ m England last October, attended a postgraduate course at New College, Edinburgh during the winter months, and then visited France, Italy and Switzerland, returning to Scotland for the meetings of the General Assemblies in May. After attending the conference of tha British Student Christian Movement at Swanwick and that of the International Student Service f.t Chartres, he will leave for New York and travel across Canada en route for New Zealand. Auckland should be reached about the middle of October. Dr. F. H. McDowall, who some months ago was appointed chemist in dairy research at the Massev Agricultural College Paimerston North, left on July 11 for New Zealand, via America. Sinca his appointment, Dr. McDowall has been visiting various British and Continental dairy research stations in order to equip himself with the latest knowledge. He will continue similar work in America and Canada on .his way to New Zealand^ The Rev. David Calder, secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society in New Zealand, is returning to the Dominion shortly. On arrival he will take up a special campaign for the distribution of Bibles in New Zealand hotels. He is placing the first thousand, and hopes eventually to secure the cooperation of the New Zealand hotelkeepers for 10,000 in all. Mr. Calder anticipates that they will co-operate in. every possible way in order to make the scheme a success The British and Foreign Bible Society of New Zealand haa chosen 'an excellent edition, . printed in lonic type, arid strongly bound, and '9 raising' a special fund to cover the cost.-