NEW ZEAL ANDERS AT HOME
[froji oun • OWN correspondent] LONDON', July 28 Dr. and Mrs. J. Scaife Armstrong (Taupo) arrived in England in May and have since been touring in the Lake District, Devonshire and Bedfordshire. Dr. Armstrong has devoted a good deal of time in London to medical work and at present he is attending the centenary meetings ef the British Medical Association. As soon as these are over he and Mrs.' Armstrong will go to Edinburgh and make a final tour in Scotland before leaving for New Zealand. They expect to arrive at Auckland about the middle of October. . Dr. J. B. Condliffe is very busy in Geneva with the final proofs of his first annual Economic Survey for the League of Nations. It will appear in French and English. While he is thus busily engaged Mrs. Condliffe and her three children are exploring the Grindelwald area of Switzerland, her son having returned from Derbyshire to Switzerland for his school holidays. Mrs. J. Struthers . (Christchurch) has been staying in Geneva with Dr. and Mrs. Condliffe. She returned a few days ago via Paris. Following two years' service in tha Sudan with the Irrigation Department of the Sudan Government. Mr. A. J. Learmonth (Auckland) had a months holidav visit to New Zealand. Now he i> about* to leave London for Portuguese East Africa to take up a position under the Central Africa Railway Company, Limited, where he will serve under tha resident engineer, who is in charge of the reconstruction of a new railway bridge across the Zambesi River. This official is Mr. F. W. A. Handman, who was agent for Armstrong, Whitworth and Company, Limited," in charge of their contract on the Arapuni hydro-electrie scheme, and Mr. Learmonth "served with him there. Five other New Zealanders who served under Mr. Handman in the Dominion ar® "on his staff at the Zambesi bridge, Messrs. W. S, Roe, F. Cubb, J. Hi slop, A. Edge anc> S. Awcock. Mr. W. Hudson, who is at present, resident engineer in charge of the construction of works in the Galloway Water Power Board's new hydro-electric scheme in south-west Scotland, and Mr. A. Lush, who is actingagent for a contractor who is carrying out part of this scheme, were both at Arapuni. ... ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21277, 2 September 1932, Page 12
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