NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20332, 13 August 1929, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

[from our own correspond ext.]

LONDON", July 12

Dr. Bernard Myers is representing 'the High Commissioner for New Zealand at the fourth Imperial Social Hygiene Congress, which is now in session at Westminster.

Colonel and Mrs. Noel P. Adams (Auckland) will be making a motor tour in August through Germany, Austria, Italy and France. Thoy leave in November for India and Singapore, and do not expect to reach New Zealand before nest March. Mr. and Mrs. F. Arthur Read and the Misses A. W. and G. M. Read (Whakatane) toured Italy, Switzerland and France on their way to England. They are now touring the British Isles, after which they will make further Continental tours before returning, via America, in about nine months' time.

Mr. A. W. Bethune (Rotorua) spent 12 days in Scotland after arriving in Glasgow by the Duchess of Athol, and then visited tho Newcastle Exhibition. He is leaving for a motor tour of the Continent oa the 16th of this month.

The Rev. W. E. Williams, who was previously minister .at the Unitarian Church at Auckland, has accepted an invitation to the Unitarian Church, West Hill Road. Bournemouth. Since 1920 Mr. Williams has been in charge of the Stour bridge Presbyterian Church. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Tenfold {Auckland) have arrived in Loudon, the main object of their visit being that Mra. Tenfold shall have an opportunity of con tinning her musical studies. " She has been accepted as a pupil by Madamn Blanche Marchesi, the famous voice producer of London and Paris. Mr. Penfold lias taken a position in the citj:The Imperial Tobacco competition at the Bislev meeting was won by Lieu tenant J. P. do W. Kitcat," R.>f., his aggregate score being 98. Captain W. X. Masefield, of New Zealand, was placed seventh with an aggregate of 93. The Rev. N. 0. White (Dargaville) will l>e touring Scotland for six weeks, and afterwards visiting the battlefields. Mrs. White,' who is visiting friends in the United States, will join him in September.

Mr. Leslie Greener, who is art master at the \ ietoria College, Alexandria, and Mrs. Greener (Rhona Haszard, the New Zealand artist), are spending their summer vacation in England this year. Most of their time will be passed in Londot,, where they intend to get in touch with the latest tendencies in modern, art. Mra. Greener unfortunately received an injury to the spine last year in Cyprus, and sht» will be undergoing treatment. At a recent levee at St. James' Palaeo two officers of the New Zealand Stuff Corps were presented to the Prince of Wales bv the Secretary of State for Air,. They were Captains Keith Stewart* M.8.E., and Stanley Allea,.