NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20840, 6 April 1931, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

DOINGS OF AUCKLANDF.RS. [mOM OUR OWN COimESrONDEIIT. ] LONDON". Feb. 2G. Sir James Parr has booked his passago for New Zealand by the Reniuera, leaving Southampton on March 13. Having made complete recovery from his appendicitis operation, Sir James is again quito fit. lie spent the convalescent stage oi his illness in the bracing air of Hove, Sussex. With renewed health and strength, he lias been speaking at Empire Crusade by-election meetings this week, and when lie arrives in the Dominion he should enjoy much better health than for a considerable time past. The Rev. N. F. E. Robertshawe, M.C. (Epsom), has been engaged in parish work in the Mother Country for the past two years. For some time he has been at Folkestone. It is understood that Mr. and Mrs. Robertshawe are intending to return to New Zealand in the near future. The Rev. Lionel B. Fletcher {Auckland) has lately had an attack of influenza. He has now recovered except for a weakness of the throat, for which ho has been treated by a specialist. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher intend to sail for Canada by the Duchess of York on May 29. After a few weeks in Canada they will'join the Monowai at Vancouver'on June 24, reaching Auckland on July 13. At a congregation of the Senate at Cambridge on February 20, the degree of M.A. was conferred upon Mr. J. N. Peart, Emmanuel College. Mr. Peart belongs to Okete, and is an old boy of Auckland Grammar School and of Auckland University College. He was for three years a master at Nelson College. Since leaving Cambridge, Mr. Peart has been a house master at Epsom College. Mr. S. lv. Norris (Auckland) has been visiting tho various sections of the British Industries Fair in London and Birmingham. On his return from Birmingham he reports that lie found-very great improvements there, alike in tho arrangements and in the number of exhibits, compared with his visit in 1924. From London Mr. Norris will travel by air to Leipzig, in time for the fair there, and then lie will go to Berlin, Vienna, Prague and Paris. Several months will then bo available for England before Mr. Norris startii, early in Jane, on a visit to Japan.