NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 18, 3 May 1911, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, March 24. The New Zealand Government have got ■hold of a first-elass man for the new post of Electrical Engineer for Pubic Works, at a salary of £B9O a year. Mr. Evan Parry enjoys a high reputation in th:s country among electrical eng neers. an.l lias "been engaged on many undertakings of magnitude in various parts of the world. He has had twenty years’ experience in electrical engineering, and for the past seven years has been engaged in designing and reporting on hydro-electric undertakings. He has during this latter period been associated with. Dr. Horace Field Parshall in his consulting engineering practice, mainly devoted to electric power undertakings in this country and abroad. He has been associated with power schemes in Egypt, Mexico, Uanada, the United States amt Spain, and wutn the installing of the hydro e’eetric plant for the New Zealand Crown Mines. Mr. Parry is familiar with the water powers in New Zealand, particularly in the North Island, as he had occasion a year or two ago to look into the situation with a view of getting together a syndicate for utilising the water powers for transmission to the gold fields and other districts. Prior to taking up consulting work Mr. Parry was in the employ of the British Thomson Houston Company, and before that with the City of London Electrical Lighting Company. He is a B.Se. of Glasgow University in the department of Civil Engineering, a Whitworth Exhibitioner, a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Mr. Parry is forty-five years of age, and married, with one child. In the electrical world New Zealand appears to be regarded as very fortunate in baying secured the services of so brilliant an engineer. Dr. Douglas Mawson, who is now in London making arrangements for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911 tells me that he has succeeded in interesting many influential people here in the project, including Lord Strathcona.

hrough tlsa. good offices <rf Sir George •~eid and Sir William Ramsay, the famous : —dentist, Lord Strathcona lias been pre(9e ailed upon to try and secure the explorau ,"g ship “Discovery” for the expedition e .oiu her present owners, the Hudson ( jsy Company. There is, of course, no o f prtaiinty that the Company will consent uti? P ! * rt with Capt. Scott’s old ship on ( pfrins agreeable io Dr. Mawson, but if i, tey will do so the capture of this ship urt ;ill be a great score for him, for the avt Piscoverv ” is, without donbt, the finest , or jiip afloat for the purposes of Antarctic u . Dr. Mawsr.n is to lecture on die Australasian Expedit on before the lidi 0 -' Geographical Society ca.ly in itipPril. He is now making arrangements ir an exhibition of polar equipment and ab« ll PPl* es the Festival of Empire at the •th rystal Palace. This will, he hopes, Simulate gifts of food-stuffs, ete„ for the ot( £hibition of these things at the Pa'.aee ... jill undoubtedly constitute an excellent . Ivertisemeßt. Cn all han Is D-. Mawson t o i receiving much encouragement and supt f»rt, and seems very confident that h's lission to the Old Country will be gowned with success. ele Miss Margaret L. Renwick, the newly id uppointed chief lady instructor in the alapmestrc department of the Auckland o f eehnical College, belongs to Canipbel„e own in Argyllshire, where for the past •(.j tn and a half years she has been teachretg all brandies of cookery and laundry ven ork, housewifery and domestic sc’ence on enerally in the burgh schools and at i lu .fening classes and teachers’ classes. Beial>re that she was for two years a teacher a iJ cookery and laundry work in the B O phool of Domestic Arts in Edinburgh, work at Campbeltown has been very col ivourably commented on by the various w itispectors of schools, and in several edu,itional Blue Books her classes have n feen singled out for special mention. w i(he is said to be possessed of high abilIdetiy, force of character and energy, and . eijie Rector of Campbeltown Grammar | le ehool says of her: "It would -be imobpssible to find a lady more highly quali- , tjed by natural gifts or by thorough ,j a paining and experience for the post.”

by Mr. Charles Ranson, of Auckland, who a i at present in Glasgow, informs me Tiiat the new steamer Ihumata, built in loumtwerp, left for Melbourne on Sunday ib iter filling her coal bunkers at New’s ustle-on-Tyne. Mr. Ranson wall rema n vell l this country to look after the building Uoflt another steamer to the order of R. & lervamb and Co., of Sydney. ons Mr. W. Hulbert, of Wellington, who is cotfaying at Forest Gate just bow, had a ?d ring trip on an aeroplane in London on liu-ednesday, and greatly enjoyed his unsjvel experience. He went up as a pasnd nger in Mr. Grahame White’s large P se eroplane, and says that the machine be:liei lve d splendidly in the strong breeze that lin-fcs -blowing. Mr. Hulbert was thoroagh®<l ; infected with the fascination of flying, VIS W hopes to go up again soon. He is axions to know whether he is the first ew Zealander who has flown, or whe- ’ Her this is a distinction in which he has _»en forestalled. What about Mr. Hamaiond, who has been giving flying exhiitions in Australia for the British Aeroiniane Co. of Bristol? He is, I believe, a “jew Zealander. ‘"''The High Commissioner for New Zeaolnd was one of the signatories of the ad*n'ress presented to the King this week, lls long with a specially bound Bible, by a 'j'sputation representing various religious ?.»dies throughout the Kingdom. The , ,‘casion was the celebration of the Ter- , tro, utenary of the Authorised Version of e ’ ie Bible in England. Sir Wm. Hall.a!»nes was unable to accompany t'he de/“.ntation to the Palace. ect ßy cable from Rangoon th s week comes ® re pws of the wedding of Miss Dorothy , Veshwater, only daughter of Mr.-H. F. reshwater, secretary and London manide, Pr of the National Bank of New Zea°f nd. Miss Freshwater was married ou ‘“Saturday last, March 18, at the Canton-'-e<*ient Church, Rangoon, to Mr. Frank “'•hirton Lea- h, of the Indian Civil Service. etl '" By the lonic next Friday the British '•‘'’oinen’s Emigration Asociation are nrk'-ndiiiz out a party of young women to dlii ew Zealand. The reduced rate for each

by £4 16 in a 4-berth cabin on the main '"g’-ck. Last year the Association sent 92 es rls to New Zealand.

ilf-.’Mr. Chas. H. Chapman, late of Welling- £ 10m, where he contested a Parliamentary lie hd al~o a City Council election some two I' Pba:s ago, is arranging a series of ad- * Besses in London on “Labour in New naipaland.” The first will be delivered at lie <|aphan> early in April. Mr. Chapman prill probably remain in Eng'and until the bntid of t'he summer, and he expects to ri'H>end a good deal of time lecturing for e<L

the British Independent Labour Party, of which he «s a life member.

The High Commissioner for New Zealand attended ’the annual dinner of the Institute of Civil Engineers in London last Friday evening. Responding to the toast of “Colonies and Communications," Sir William Hall-Jones said that young nations growing up in the overseas Dominions were just as British, as loyal and as true as those at Home.

Recent callers at the High Commissioner’s Offices:—Miss Dallas Cowan (Auckland), Miss O’Neil (Auckland), Rev. and Mrs. Gray (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sawers (Waikato), Mr. John Rhodes, H. Morton (Auckland), J. L. Flyger (Palmerston North), A. J. Davey (Hawke’s Bay), Mrs. T. Macfarlane (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. J. E. D. Kemp (Bay of Islands), Mr. and Misses (2) McLaren (Masterton), Mr. Wm. H. Bryant (Wellington), Mr. C. J. Sebastian Hughes (Christchurch), T. W. Arthur (Rakaia), Mrs and Miss Taylor (Oamaru), N. M. Bell (Christchurch).

Mrs. ABington, late of Christchurch, has been appointed honorary “Mistress of Robes ” for the New Zealand scene of the Pageant of Empire, to be performed at the Crystal Palace in connection with the Festival of Empire.