NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20142, 31 December 1928, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

[from our own correspondent. ] LONDON, Nov. 27.. The High Commissioner for New Zealand and Lady Parr last week visited the cemeteries at Brockenhursfc, Netley, -Codford and Tidworth, where New Zealand soldiers killed in the warfare buried. As a result of Sir James' efforts the Brockenhurst cemetery—near the former General Military Hospital—where 93 New Zealanders are buried, has been put into an excellent state by the Imperial War Graves Commission. Earl Jellieoe has been- appointed to a seat on the Board of the Midland Banks. Lord Jellieoe will thus assume his third directorship, as he is already a member of the London Board of the Bank of New Zealand and a director of Cavzer, Irvine and Company, Limited, of which company Admiral Sir Charles Madden is also a director. __ Mr. Dennis Brown, B.Sc., who is at present with the Department of Physics, Leeds University, has accepted the position of senior assistant lecturer in physics, Auckland University College. He will sail for the Dominion the end of December. Mr. E. B. O'Rorke (Auckland), who is at Jesus College, Cambridge, has received his M.A. degree. v . Mr. Wallace Fanthocpe (Taumaruntii) left for the Continent by air a week ago. From Paris he intends to tour in Switzerland. Northern Italy and Southern France, and ho expects to be joined by Mr, Arthur Mathias and Mr. T. C. Wood, both of Auckland. Christmas will be spent at Abingdon, Berkshire, with Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Weatherhog (late of New Zealand). Mr. Fanthorpe will leave for New Zealand on January 11. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Payne havo booked their passage to New Zealand, via Australia, by the Osterlev, which they will join at Toulon on November 30. They expect to reach Auckland about th'j middle of January. Dr. A. E. Porritt, the well-known university athlete, has been: successfully operated on for a displaced cartilage in the knee. The injury, which was caused at football, has severely handicapped Dr. Porritt's participation in sport. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Jones (Gvsborne) started from London in June and havo since then covered nearly 6000 miles by motor-car, travelling chiefly in Scotland, Wales, the Western Counties, and the Channel Islands. They arc at present in St. Helier, where they intend to spend the winter. They hope to be back in England next summer. The third annual dinner of the Hongi Club, Oxford, was held at Magdalen College on November 24. Those present were:—Mr. M. Barak (president), in the chair, Dr. D. E. Denny-Brown, Messrs. W. L. Haslam, D. R. Balcombe-Brown, L. E. Clarke, E. S. Gerard, W. W. Gunson, W. J. Harris,- W. G. Kalaugher, C. E. Low, W. P. Mor Veil, E. J. C. Newton, W. Pitts-Brown, J. F. PiattsMills, J. D. Rankine, C. A. Sharp, R. Syme, G. H. C. Wilson, Q. O. Wilson. Macgregor, J. R. Oliver, M. Williams, P. 11. T. Williams, T. C. Maling, F. L. Kay and A. J. L. Sadlier represented the Heitiki Club, Cambridge. The menu cards, printed in Maori and embossed with a fern leaf, added to the New Zealand character of the occasion, which was punctuated at iirervals with hakas.