NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 2

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Miss A. Murray (Timaru) has reached the Mother Country after a pro- ■ longed journey from New Zealand. She has been following her profession as a I nurse throughout her travels, and has ' spent a great deal of time in Canada and the United States. Her experiences have been many and varied, and . some of them quite thrilling. All have ; been of professional benefit. Miss Murray says that always within forty-eight hours of her arrival in cities of Canada! and the United States she had found! I work to do- For a long while she was in Chicago on the staff of a special treatment hospital where the patients included millionaires and gunmen. Since landing in the United Kingdom Miss Murray has visited Scotland —she was taken to New Zealand by her parents when she was a child —and now is .in London for a short period prior to going into the country to look after a patient. In all probability she will spend the winter in Northern Italy. She is in excellent health and has many an interesting story to tell. Miss Alison Grant (Wellington) is finding life very pleasant in the beautiful Balaeric Islands, off the coast of Spain. At Ybiza she is living on the top of a cliff looking toward Italy, where she hopes to tour later. Mr. and Mrs. J. Quin (Dunedin and Christchurch) have been touring England, visiting relatives and friends, and the former has been combining business with the travel-round. He is looking forward with interest to a visit to Cadby Hall, the splendidly-appointed up-to-date headquarters of Messrs J. Lyons and Company. In spite of the wet summer, Mr and Mrs Quinu have enjoyed the countryside. They have spent some time on the Quantock Hills, one of the few remaining places where the red deer runs wild. The Quantock Hills, too, are famed for whortleberries, and when the berries are ready the schoolchildren in the district get a week’s extra holiday to pick themThis ancient custom is concluded by a ‘‘Wort-fire revel” at the Blue Ball, Bagborough, where all the pickers cat small whortleberry tarts, drink cider and then dance in the evening. Few people outside the district have heard of this old custom. Mr. and Mrs. Quinn refer to it as it might be new to New Zealand readers. On August 28 the travellers left for home by the Rangitiki. At St. Peter’s, Ealing, on August 17, the wedding took place of Major Stephen Chapman to Florence Enid Leigh, widow of Derek Edward Thornton, and great-granddaughter of Leigh Hunt. There are friends in New Zealand who will be interested in the announcement.

Miss D. Ellin, of Whangarei, and Miss E. McDonald, of Christchurch, left New Zealand two years ago, and have since been engaged working their way through Africa, from Cape to Cairo. They are both nurses, and worked in the Cape, Transvaal, Rhodesia, and Kenya. From Southern Rhodesia they travelled through the Belgian Congo and Tanganyika to Kenya, and from Lake Victoria they travelled to Cairo by air. Miss McDonald is nursing in Egypt for a while, but Miss Ellin went on to England, where she expects to nurse for a while before working her way across Canada and the United States back to New Zealand.

Miss Olivia Spencer Bower, of Christchurch, has just returned to England from a five months’ sketching trip in Italy, and is now hoping to continue her work in England, probably sketching in Somerset, Wiltshire and Norfolk. Miss Bower was one of those who attended the Royal garden party. Mrs. Ada B. Hindson, of Auckland, who was staying in London on August 7, has recovered from her long illness, and was leaving shortly for the Continent, where she intended to visit Brussels, Cologne, Dresden, Prague, Vienna and Venice. Mrs Hindson was one of the many New Zealanders pre sent at the Royal garden party.