NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20842, 8 April 1931, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

[.FROM our. OWN CORRESPONDENT. J LONDON, March 6. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Crisp (Auckland} and their family have arrived in London. They are making their headquarter;! af; present at South Kensington. Mr. and Sirs. W. Hill (Botorua) think of remaining for 18 months or so on this side of the world. They will tour in England and Scotland as well as on the Continent. Visits to Berlin, Rome and Parin will be included in their itinerary. Mr. and Mrs. James Aitken (Wanganui) will go to Edinburgh to attend the annual meeting of the General Assembly of the United Church of Scotland, to which Mr. Aitken is an accredited commissioner from the Church in New Zealand. At, the conclusion of the assembly | a tour will be niade of Scotland. According to present plans, New Zealand will be reached about the beginning of December. Mr. and Mrs.'Aitken are accom-. panied by their daughters. Mr. anil Mrs. S. G. Appleton (Whangarei) and their little daughter have travelled considerably since they left New Zealand a year ago. Some time was spent in America on route, where they. met, friends whom they had not seen for 26 years. From New York they crossed to the North, and have spent the intervening month with relatives and friends in Northern England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. After a short stay in London a tour will be made to Devonshire and Cornwall, and then will follow a visit to the Continent. Return passages have been booked by the Mooltan, due to leave on September 18.

Captain Frank Hart, late of the Corinthic, represented the High Commissioner at a recent conference called by the British Government for the purpose of considering the subject of buoys in -harbours and ports.- The conference, which lasted two days, is in anticipation of representations which will be made to the League of Nations on behalf of British shipping when the question comes before, the Assembly. Mr. David Beech, who had friends in Auckland, died in Edinburgh recently, ia his 83rd year.