NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 377, 26 April 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, March 11. Mr and Mrs AIO6 Watson arc 011 their way to Egypt on a holiday tour. Mr Richard Finch, F.R.C.S., late of the Department of Agriculture, is at present in London. Mrs C. A. I-lolgate, of Marlborough, leaves for France almost at once, attached to tlio staff of the French Flag Nursing Corps. The Hon. Thomas Mackenzie presided at the meeting - of the Council of the British Empire League last week. Mr and Mrs George Beetham, of Masterton, who have given so many practical evidences of their interest in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, have been motoring through Loudon recently in search of the very best prismatic field glasses that could be procured for the officers in Egypt, aixl have secured over 100 pairs. The animal meeting of the Jlampstead Association of the Colonial and Continental Church Society was held at the Town Hall, Haverstock Hill, on March 5. Some excellent pictures were showu by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Nelson, to illustrate life in Australasia; and the Rev. C. S. Painter (of Compeigne) explained the work ot chaplains in the war zone. Miss May Palmer, of Wellington (a cousin of Lieut.. Maclean, ol" New Zealand, on whom the military cross fot valour was recently bestowed), aftei spending some months in a military hospital at Marseilles?, has just gone tc Mentonc to a Red Cross Hospital whicli lias been opened there. Miss Mary A. Sheridan, of Napiei (N.Z.), is in one of the military hos pitals in France. Lieut. E. C. Black, R.A.M.C., who hai boon in hospital in France, is now wcl again, and back at the front.