NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 93, 11 July 1927, Page 5

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

The Misses Sybil and Josephine Mulvaney, of Auckland, have returned to London from Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Watkins, of Wellington, and their two daughters, arrived from New Zealand last week. Mrs. C. M. Finn, of Wellington, will remain in London until July. She hopes later to visit the Continent. Miss Mary E. Herbert, of Auckland, will be in London for two months before touring in Great Britain and Europe. Mr. S. S. Hutchings, of Whangarei, and his daughter, intend motoring through the South of England before visiting the Continent. Mr. and Mrs. Hans Kennedy of Christchurch, and their daughter, intend touring the British Isles by car and later visiting the Continent. Mr. R. Foster, of Christchurch, will be in England for about four months. He proposes following the New Zealand cricketers over part of their tour. Mrs. D. Petrie, of Auckland, and Mrs. A. G. Whitehorn. will tour England, Scotland, the Norwegian Fiords and the Continent during their 12 months’ visit. Miss A. B. Anderson, of Napier, intends touring England and Scotland by car before visiting the Continent. Mr. W. Waddell. Superintendent of the State Advances Department, Wellington, is on a holiday visit to England. Mrs. S. Ivirkcaldie and her daughter, of Auckland, will remain in England sightseeing and visiting friends, until late in July, when they leave for the Continent. Mr. S. L. Cox, accompanied by Mrs. Cox and Master John Cox. intends touring England by car. Later they will visit the Continent, returning to New Zealand via America. Mr. and Mrs. J. Faulder. of Auckland, who travelled to England via America, intend visiting the Continent. They will leave for New Zealand via Panama at the end of September. Miss M. E. Harvey and the Misses L. and D. Manifold, of Christchurch, who recently arrived in England via America, will spend some time travelling before going on to the Continent. Mr. Robert E. R. Grimmett, of the Department of Agriculture, New Zealand, has arrived in England to do research work at the Rowett Institute. Aberdeen. He will investigate the improvement of soils and pastures. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schneideman, of Wellington, who are on a world tour, will stay in London several months before leaving for the Continent and America. Miss E. Simpson, of Auckland, who is travelling with friends, will be in London for two months before touring the South of England, the Scottish Lakes -and Ireland. Mr. William Ford, of Isla Bank, Southland, is in England on a business and pleasure trip. He intends visiting Ireland and Scotland before leaving for the Dominion in October. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Flavell, of Dunedin, are visiting friends in Warwickshire. They intend touring England and visiting the Continent before returning to New Zealand in October. Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Mackay, of Wellington, and Miss Z. Meads, of Wellington, travelled to England via America. They intend touring the United Kingdom and the Continent. Mr. John Buchanan, of Christchurch, is leaving London shortly for Paris. He will visit relatives in the Isle of Wight and Scotland before returning to New Zealand, via America. Sir George Elliot, chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, who is one of the New Zealand’ delegates to the Economic Conference, arrived in London from Canada recently, and left shortly afterwards for Geneva. Miss French, of Epsom, Auckland, Miss Berthe Selby, of Invercargill, and Miss Ethel W. B. Davis, of Green Lane, Auckland, are travelling together in England and on the Continent. Dr. Sharp, of Wellington, has been studying in Glasgow and Dublin, and expects to continue post-graduate study in Edinburgh before spending another six months at the clinics in Berlin and Vienna. Mr. Harold Gaukrodger, of Ellerslie, who has passed the qualifying examination of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, recently sat for the examination of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers. He is shortly returning to New Zealand. Miss Beck and Miss Welsman, of Mount Pleasant, Christchurch, are touring the West of England. They intend visiting the Lake District and Scotland before settling in London for three months. Mr. Evan Macdonald, Chevalier of the Order of*Leopold 11., is now in London attending an eye specialist. Mr. Macdonald’s brothers, Mr. Ranald Macintosh Macdonald, C.8.E., of Chirstchurch, and Mr. W. K. Macdonald, of Timaru, are in London.

Mr. Robert Bell, director of the “Lyttelton Times,” and proprietor of the “Ashburton Guardian,” has returned to London from the Continent. Air. Bell also visited Morocco, and while there was at one time within a mile of the firing line in the hostilities against the Rift's. Airs. Faram, of Gisborne, is in London with her daughter Oriel, who lias just carried off three prizes in music —a bronze medal in the Surrey Open Competition, the first place in the Wimbledon Competition, and the first in the Central London Competition for piano playing. They will probably return to New Zealand in August for 12 months. Captain H. W. Gardner, who has been in charge of the New Zealand Shipping Company's cadet training ship Devon, has been promoted to the Westmoreland, on which vessel he wilJ also have the duty of training apprentices. Captain G. Kennell, previously in charge of the Piako, has been appointed to command the Devon. Captain Kennell served his apprenticeship with the New Zealand Shipping Company. Air. John Tait. of Port Chalmers, who has been studying boiler efficiency for 14 years, has had his newest boiler examined at the National Physical Laboratory. The result of the experts’ tests was fully to bear out his claim to at least 25 per cent, increased efficiency. Air. and Airs. Phillips-Turner, of Wellington, are at present in Edinburgh, where they will be staying for several weeks. This month they propose to visit Airs. Phillips-Turner’s relatives in Guernsey, afterwards returning to Edinburgh before sailing for New Zealand in August. Air. Harcus Plimmer, of the literary staff of the “Dominion,” Wellington, and the Alisses Plimmer, arrived in London recently. Air. Plimmer is one of the best known dramatic and musical critics in New Zealand. He is a brother of Air. Harry Plimmer, the well-known actor-manager.

For flavouring salads keep an onion in a tumbler of water in the sun and cut the tender sprouts as needed. They are delicate in flavour, and new shoots grow rapidly after the first cutting.

THE QUERY CLUB A meeting of the Query Cluld was held on Friday afternoon, Aliss J. Tapper presiding over a good attend*ance of members. The recent stand held by the club was a financial success and it was agreed to give a donation from - this fund to the Children’s Home, Richmond Road. Canon Grant Cowen supplied the club with the names of several old ladies who were in need of fuel and it was decided to send a supply to each of these. Arrangements were made for a bridge afternoon to be held on August 1, the proceeds of which are to be given to local charities. HOSIERY HINTS To Re-Foot a Straight Stocking.— Cut foot off past heel, pick up stitches, and cast off. Turn leg upside down, and pick stitches up that end and knit new heel and foot. Hole in Knitted Stocking.—For a knitted stocking, knit a new piece, square, bigger than hole, and (seeing that stitches in old and new correspond) herringbone it on, right side. Then turn inside and herringbone all round the hole. Hole in Stocking Knee.—lf too big to darn over net, cut a piece from an old stocking, and herringbone twice as above, and trim the hole inside. This is for non-knitted stockings.