NEW ZEALANDERS' TOURS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22149, 1 July 1935, Page 12

NEW ZEALANDERS' TOURS

AUCKLANDERS ABROAD [from our own correspondent] , By Air Mnil LONDON, June 8 A life of Dr. Harold Williams, the distinguished New Zealand-born linguist, scholar and journalist, who died in London in 1928, has been written by his widow, Mrs. Ariadna Tyrkova Williams, and will be published in October. " Cheerful Giver," a title suggested by a close friend of Dr. Williams, does not meet with wide approval in his London circle, so another is being sought. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Hawes (Auckland) have booked return passages by the Ormonde, leaving on August Mrs. Hawes has been staying in Paris with Mrs. Behringer. On her return she and her husband will make a tour of Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Cox (Auckland) intend to spend about six months in England visiting friends and relatives in Surrey, Hertfordshire, Yorks, the Midlands and Glasgow. Mr. Cox has come to England primarily to visit his mother, whom he had not seen for To years. Dr. G. H. - Scholefield, chief New Zealand Parliamentary librarian, has returned from Spain, where he attended the quinquennial conference of the International Federation of Libraries, which was held under the auspices of the League of Nations. Conference meetings were held in Madrid, Seville, Salamanca and Barcelona, and were attended by a representative gathering of librarians from Britain and most of the European countries, including Russia, the United States, Canada and South America.

Dr. W. Wallace Main, who has been appointed radiologist at Auckland, has booked his passage by the Rangitata for July 25. Meanwhile ho will visit several of the European radiological clinics. Mr. R. N. Johnson (Whangarei) is staying with bis mother, Mrs, A. E. Johnson, at Hastings. He will presently be going to Strasbourg to see his sister, Mrs. W. SI Edmonds. Major-General A. C. Temperley, D.5.0., Norfolk Regiment, who served during the war as staff officer with the New Zealand Division, is joining the staff of the Daily Telegraph as military correspondent. From 1925 to the present time General Temperley has been the British military representative at the League of Nations. Dr. A. T. Peterson (late of Auckland) has been elected president of the North of England Gphthalmological Society. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Poulton (Takanuna) will remain in London for a few weeks before leaving on a round of country visits.