NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 23, 5 June 1912, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD.

LONDON, April 20. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney C. Rathbone, of Auckland, and their daughter, arrived in London recently, intent on making holiday for six months in the Old Country. After a spell in London they wdl pay visits to friends in Oxford and tour awhile in the West Country ere going north to spend a few weeks with Mr. Rathbone’s relatives in Liverpool and in Cumberland. They will return {south for the Henley Regatta and for a further spell in London, and will probably return to New Zealand bv wav of Sues.

Mr. If. W. Swales, of Auckland, who landed in England by the Baltic from New York last Saturday, had an eventful and not altogether pleasant trip Home. He left New Zealand by the Tahiti for San Francisco, and on the voyage had the misfortune to break a couple of his ribs, which necessitated bis taking matters very quietly and travelling in leisurely fashion across America. During the land trip he visited Salt Lake City, Denver, Chicago and Niagara, and joined the Baltic on what proved to be a most gloomy voyage owing to the Titanic disaster, of which the Baltic received intimation by wireless, and at cnee proceeded at full speed toward the scene of the catastrophe, until turned back by the much-diseuesed message stating that the ill-fated liner was being towed to Halifax. Na one knows where that utterly false message originated, and probably its origin will never be known. Mr. Swales has in bis possession several souvenirs of his memorable voyage across the Atlantic, including the course chart of the Baltic and the original subscription list with the signatures of passengers who gave towards the fund raised on board for the widows and orphans of the Titank-’e crew. Mr. Charles Blomfield, of Auckland, who travelled from Australia by the Orsova, left that ship at Toi.lon and spent a very pleasant spell it the Riviera, visiting Monte Carlo, Men ue, Manures and Nice. Thence he went on tour in Italy, seeing something of Genoa, Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, ere making tracks for London by way of Lucerne and Paris, in both of which centres he spent several days sight-seeing. He arrived in London a week ago. and proposes to spend some time in the Metropolis ere going on a trip in the provinces. A trip to Germany will complete his European itinerary, and in the middle of July he sets sail for New York, and will travel thence by the C.P.R. route to Vancouver, where he joins the steamer leaving for Auckland on August 7th. Mr. Frank Lester Newall Tuck, who has been appointed chief instructor in physics and efeetrieal engineering to the Seddon Memorial College at Auckland, is sailing for the Dominion by the Rotorua, which is due to leave Plymouth on May 11th. Mr. Turk, who is in his 27th year, has occupied the position of assistant master in charge of special work at Taunton School, and was. at the time of his appointment to the Seddon Memorial College, estimating engineer in the foreign department of the Allagemeine Elektrieitatas Gesellschaft of Berlin. Mr. P. Beaver, of Auckland, who had a most enjoyable trip to England by the Persie from Sydney, and arrived here in niid-April, expects to be absent from New Zealand about twelve months in all. Whilst in the Old Country, and during his proposed travels on the Continent, Mr. Beaver intends to make a close study of the conditions of life prevailing among the middle and working classes. He has already come to the conclusion that New Zealand is a better place to live in than London or the provincial towns in England for the majority of the working and lower middle class. bur his statement that “ food and living is dearer in England than in Australia and New Zealand " is open to serious question. It would be interesting to compare the domestic bills of a London or Liverpool middls-dass household with those of a New Zealand city home of similar standing. 1 think it would be

found that on the whole the prices pud at Home for necessities and luxuries were lower than those paid by the Colonial housewife.

Recent eallers at the Titgh Commissioner’s office: Mrs. Hay (Dunedin), Miss Rutherford (Wellington). Mrs. Satehell (Wellington), Mr. and Mr«. Jack a (Nelson), B. L. Catt (Auckland). W. C. N. 8. B. Hoskin (New Plymouth), A. T. <l. Taylor (Auckland), F R. Redgrave (Christch’irch), F. Pope (.* ■ Taylor <Auckland) w M * l!**nderaon (Auckland), J. F. Cole ('. . ngto®), T.

Higgins (Napier), IL W. Swales (Waikato}, A. D. Dallas (Otago), El Muir (Otago), Grace Hatton (Otago), A. IX-I-ecki (Auckland), Charles Blomfield (Auckland), H. Thomson (Gisborne), Mr. and Mrs. S. Hareourt (Wellington), Mrs. Faulke, Mr. and Mrs. Sunderland, H. H. Robson (Christchurch}, Mr. and Mrs. Geddes (Auckland), Mr. P. Beaver (Auckland), W. M. Kircaldy (Dunedin), Dr. and Mrs. W. F. Wilils (Feild ng), Mr. Henry and Mrs. MeElna (Ashburton), Mrs. Catherine Turner, W. McFarlan (Otago), E. C. Ttue tAuckland). Mr. A. Duffus Lu beck i, of Auckland, who left New Zealand early iu February by the Morea and reached London early m April, anticipates staying in these latitudes for a considerable time to come. His mission ie purely one of pleasure and to visit lelations. For his spell in the homeland he has made his headquarters at East Croydon. Mr. George Butler has two large pictures iu the Parks Salon this season. One of them is ‘The Golden Dustman,” of which the critics spoke highly when it was in the Royal Academy show last year, and the other is a football group.