NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21232, 12 July 1932, Page 10

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME.

[FROM our, own correspondent.]

LONDON, June 10

, Dr. J. H. North (Auckland) has passed the examination for the Diploma of Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Mr. E. Trenchard Smith (Auckland) has passed the Royal Air Force tests, and has been accepted for service, but the next draft will not be called up until January.

Mr. and Mrs. V. J..Redfern, and their son, Mr. Roy Rcdfern (Devonport), have planned a tour of the British Isles and the Continent. On their way to England they visited Egypt.' They intend to spend some time iu London.

Mr. and Mrs. Kill worth (Auckland) have been in Canada for two years, and prior to returning to Now Zealand and Australia they are spending a holiday in England and on tho Continent. On July 23 they will leave by the Oronsay, via Suez.

Mr. Harold F. Churt-on (Auckland), who arrived recently in England, spent a week in London with his sisters, Mrs. Iredale and Miss Churton, and then went to Cumberland to visit relatives of his wife. Mr. Churton made a complete tour of the English Lako District. He hopes to tour in Scotland, Devonshire and Cornwall, and later to spend u month in Wales.

The Rev. William McDonald (Epsom) has during tho last month been moving about in tho North and in Scotland, looking up relatives and old friends. He has not yet decided how long he will stay in the Old Country. He has two sons studying medicine—one at Clare College. Cambridge, taking a post-graduate course, and the other at London Medical School. After the close of the sessions at their respective colleges, Mrs. McDonald and tho sons will join Mr. McDonald at Inverness. Tho state of his health is still unsatisfactory, but h 0 looks forward to deriving some bonefit from tho long voyage. From Oxford comes nows of tho death, «t tho ago of 50, of Mr. Richard Charles Staples-Browne. Ho had been in failing health for tho last year. He leaves a widow. Mr. Staples-Browne was twice married, his first wife having been the New Zealander, Miss Maggie Papakura, who died two years ago. During the war ho was very closely in touch with members of tho New Zealand Expeditionary ■ Force, as, with the rank of captain, he acted as adjutant at tho No. 2 New Zealand Geueral Hospital, Walton-on-Thames.