NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20074, 11 October 1928, Page 12

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

[from our own correspondent.] LONDON,' Sept. 1.

Mr. E. Earlc Vaile will leave for the Continent next week on his way back to New Zealand, but he does not expect' to reach the Dominion until April. His tour will include Greece, Egypt, tho Nile, Jerusalem, India, and Australia. The Hon. G. J. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson, who have been in England on a visit for the benefit of Mr. Anderson's health, propose returning via the Cape and Australia, leaving Liverpool on September 15. They will spend a month in Australia, during which they will visit, among other places, Bendigo, where Mr. Anderson was born. His health has improved considerably and his medical adviser is of opinion that the long sea voyage. by way of South Africa, will so benefit him that ho will be able to carry out his public duties on his return to tho Dominion. Mr. H. E. Stephens, representative in London of the Xew Zealand Fruit Board, is expected back from Sweden in a day or two. At the end of next week he will leave for New Zealand. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Crossley and Miss Crossley have been motoring in the Lake District and in Scotland. They came to London via Wales. On September 15 they -will leave by the Otranto on their wav home.

Mr. 17. Masscy, of Devonport, has, during his tours in England;'been very much interested in observing the method of road making, and he feels sure that New Zealand has a long way to go before she can,come up to the English standard. Mr. and Mrs. Massey have been touring in the United Kingdom and (he Isle of Man, and they will leave by the Otranto on September 15. Auckland should be reached by the Mnrama on November 6. Tho Now Zealand architectural students—Messrs. W. M. Hutchison and L. il. Walker, both of Auckland—left London this week for the United States on (heir jyay back to New Zealand, where they ekpcct to arrive in time for Christmas. In their motor-car they have covered 6000 miles on tho Continent and in tho Mother Country, and only a few days ago they returned from Vienna and Switzerland. While in the United States they will devote still further time to architecture and the latest methods in their profession. Mr. Hutchison took a full-time course in architecture nt London University and ho sat for his H.1.8.A. examination. Mr. Walker, who took tho same examination passed in every subject but one, and for this lie will sit in New Zealand. For over two months ho was gaining experience in the office of Sir E. Lutvens, where work was proceeding in connection with Government House, Delhi. Mr. and Mrs. Howard H. Gavidin, of Epsom, have returned from an extensive motor lour on the Continent. They did 4000 miles through Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. They have now started for a motor tour of Scotland and Ireland. In October they will be back in London. Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Munro, of Auckland, returned from the Continent in July, coming by air from Paris. They have since been staying in Devonshire. On September 15 they will leave for homo via Australia by the Otranto. New Zealand should bo reached in time for Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. W. Pollard and their daughter, of Cambridge, reached Southampton at the beginning of July after an interesting tour through They expect to be homo again about Christmas time. Miss Kahlcen Moore, of Manunni. has been appointed sister at St. Stephen S Hospital, Fulham Road.