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Temuka Leader, Issue 10559, 18 December 1923, Page 2

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The Rev. W. H. E;- Abbey has had a story accepted for the Christmas : number of the Christchurch "Star," i the t tie being "Kura—a Tale of ! Maori Love and Hate." j A writer of "Personal Notes" re- / ; warding Nov/ Zealanders in the - Old 1 | Country sends the following:—Mr ; Bruce N. Murray, of South Canter--1 bury, has just obtained some Jersey cattle and is taking them with him ,On board the Port Victor, which : sails from Liverpool. (Mr'Murray ! has arrived in New Zealand). ! Mss E. H. Tripp, of Orari Gorge, I and her two nieces, the Misses j Plnckney, intend to-spend the early j part of nex t year in Italy. At prej sent they are touring in Scotland. ; Mrs Graham, of Timaru, is stayj ins: at 17 Bl3Ckhor3e Road, Wal- | thamstow. She arrived in England j on August 7, by the lonic, on a I pleasure trip and to visit he r nai ti-ve place, Wolverhampton. After : staying there two months she spent ; a few weeks in Herefordshire. Bei ing now in London,, she is having a | good round of sight seeing and ex- \ presses her - appreciation of the ; kindness and courtesy she has rej eeived at the High Commissioner's | office. The New Zealand staff there | made it easy for her to visit places j she otherwise, could not have done. . : Mrs Graham is much impressed by j the beautiful parks and gardens Everywhere, even in London, and\ by the grand buildings and the enfor- - mens and orderly traffic i« the metropolis. .It is fifty-one years since Mrs Graham left England and she naturally soe s very great changes and improvements. . Mrs Graham is shortly going to Devonshire to vis-it-Mrs Wreford, ' . formerly of the Cave, Canterbury, and she thinks of returning to New Zedland early i u 1924.