NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 4

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

The "British Australasian" of June 10 contains the following items of news concerning New Zealanders in other parts: — Mr Robert Hamilton, of Christclmrch, is staying at Cambuslaug, in Scotland. Mr Harold Butterworth, of Auckland, is in London, and hopes to get into the Royal Flying Corps. ' The High Commissioner was amongst those present to bid farewell to the New Zealand nurses at Paddington on Wednesday, when they left for service abroad under the War Office.

Dr and Mrs Arthur Marsack, of Auckland, and their children, are at present slaying with relatives at Tunbridge Wells. They intend remaining in England for a year, and during most of that time Dr Marsack will be doing hospital work. He has applied for a commission in the R.A.M.C.

Captain C. Gordon Armour, of Dunedin, who is in the 24th Battalion Victoria Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force, arrived at Plymouth on May 19 by the Cameronia. He is encamped at Shorncliffe with his regiment, awl before going to the front lie hopes to be able to make short trips to London, Wales, and Scotland, on visits to friends. The Rev. Leonard H. Hunt, of Knox College, Dunedin, Avho arrived in England by the Orontes, intends spending a month in London before paying visits to relatives and friends in Wales and the Shetland Islands. He expects to be away for about a year. Miss K. M. Matthewson, of Palmerston North, and her friend, Miss Stevenson, who arrived by the Orontes a fortnight ago, intend staying in London for this month, and will go on to Scotland and Ireland for July. Later they hope to go to Paris. The friends of Sir Joshua Williams, the septuagenarian New Zealand judge, who was reported as being seriously ill early in the year, will be pleased to hear that, though he is still far from strong, there has been considerable improvement in the state of his health of late. Miss Helen Williams is shortly expected in England from the Dominion, to take care of her father. Mr Raymond 3. White, of Wairoa (Hawke's Bay), and his wife and two boys, who spent some days with friends in New York, en route to England, were almost persuaded to wait for the Lusitania, but fortunately came over by an earlier boat, only booking berths on the day they sailed. Mr White has obtained a commission as second lieutenant in the A.S.C., and has joined the 20th Division Train (horse transport) at Salisbury. The Division is commanded by Major-General Davies, C.8., the well-known New Zealander. Mrs Raymond White is at present living in London. Amy Lady Pelly last week entertained the New Zealand nurses to tea. Lady Pelly, in addressing her guests, expressed her admiration for the noble spirit which had prompted them to come so far in order to share the hardships of the wounded and to nurse them. The High' Commissioner was asked to address the nurses. He gave a brief history of New Zealand's attitude towards the war, and said the Dominion was sending not only her best men but her best women to help. The war was a matter in which we were all deeply interested; we were fighting, in common with the rest of the Empire and our noblS 1 Allies, for the preservation of libortv and civilisation.