PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16725, 7 January 1920, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

» GOSSIP ABOUT NEW ZEALANDERS.

<~nou on? otrv correspondent A LONDON'. No - , .-mber '.?n. Mi S. Hurst j; ;1 t present in London making a ihyrouzh inre -i:::n- ! tton in connexion* with the latest met nod of town-planning, and housing problems. He was very much impressed with what lie " saw in the • Panatna zone in connexion with the ac-commo-Ir-tion provided for the nu- , tupiou> vorki'rs in that area. Here lie : able to realise the advantages v.-hicli accrue when everything i- done ; rjider on<_- authority. _\s his steamer i from Panama lauded him at (ilastfnv. I he hid .i £ooil look at centres at j Dundee. Stirling, and Kosyth. The | work which has been done at Ho.-vih ! for tiic naval dockyard workers lias i been carried out on a very tine scale. ! and provides Mr Scaler with sundry ; ideas which should prove verv useful i in New Zealand. The housing problem i in i.ondon is. of course, of special in- ! terest tn him, and he is just now very 1 busy attending lectures on townplanning and cognate subjects. He will j -peak at Air Davidgc's jeeture at the j Jioyal Institute of llritish Architects. i Mr 11. Herdtnan-Smith. the New Zoa- | land artist. has settled down at ! Nenlyn. South t'ornuall. where he has | taken a studio. It is his intention to ! send some of his Cornish pictures to j the tewt exhibition of the Canterbury j Art Society. * > Lieut.-Colonel W. P. N. Aladocks. i C.U.. C.AI.C . D.5.0., Royal Artil-j ler.v, has been appointetl A.A.U. to the j Ceneral StaiF. ! Lieut.-Colonel ihe Hon. N. C'. Oath- i oine Hardy, Itifle Brigade, was in j cnuiinaml ol a battalion of the Liver- 1 pool Regiment from August, 101?. to ; tiie- beginning of Mav last. i Cottimander V. i.. A. Campbell, I D.5.0., ()JLS.. It.N.. has been j awarded the French Croix de Guerre. | Commander Campbell, who wr.s a mem- 1 bcr of the Scott Antarctic Kxpedition. has recently been appointed in charge of a group of boats. Sub-Lieutenant Ronald HunterTJlair. i!.N.. has been awarded the D.S.O. for distinguished services as Second-in-command of H.M.S. coastal boat No. 7'J. in the attack on Ivronstad liarbour on August 18tli la.st. The boat in which lie was serving passed through tlie line of forts under a heavy fire and j escorted H.M.S. coast boat No. Sfi out action. Lieutenant Hunter-Blair is a son of Major I?. S. Hunter-Blair. who married Miss Emily Rhodes, of Christchurch. Captain G. G. Sale. D.5.0.. M.C., Royal Engineers (formerly of Dunedin). who relinquished his commission a short time ago, has gone out to South Africa with his wife and little boy. lie is again taking up the gold-mining work in Rhodesia, which lie relinquished on joining the Army in June, l'Jlo. and he is in partnertliip in the ownership of two goldmines, with Air J. B. Macdonald, a son of the old Rector of the Dunedin Jlish School. Captain Sale v.as twice mentioned in despatches— the first time in connexion with his work iji the mining of the Vimv Ridge, and more recentlv in Sir Douglas Haig's last despatch. Numerous friends in New Zealand of Professor G. S. Sale, formerly of Dunedin. will regret to hear that ho is istill very ill. and is now confined eniirelv to his bed. Although ho is not able to take any part in active affairs, J,o is still always interested to hear New Zealand news when tho mails come in.. At the annual meeting of the I'.mpiro Press Union. the chairman of the Council. Mr R. Donald (proprietor of the '-Globe") said lie learned with regret that Dri Seholelield, who had reprcscntfd Zpflinnd on tlic C.omicii for til*? past ten years, was about to return to New Zealand. He had done excellent work for the Union during tile wiiol? of its existence. and lie moved that* the meeting place on record its appreciation ot his sen-tees and its best wishes for his future m New Zealand. Viscount- Burnham (proprietor of the "Daily Telegraph ). the president of tho Lnion, said he had had the best means of knowing what Dr. Scholefield had done. He had been on almost all the committees of the Union, and the Press of New Zealand was much indebted to him lor his services. The motion wn.s carried. A resolution was also passed congratulating Sir George Fen wick on the distinction conferred upon Vum b> tlic Kin-. Lord Burnham said Sir Gcorj.e was the doven of the Now Zealand press delegations, both in i!W am in I'llS. and no better honour l aw bee,, bestowed. New Zealand will pro hablv reccivo seven invitations to the conference in Canada iu li-0, ' pared with six in 1000. Three New Zealand medical men p.-nscd a special and ordinary P n " ,: "> examination for the Fellowship of th Roval College of Surjsoons. t« candidates, 67 were "PP'oved Jhe New Zealanders, all of whom had served iu the N.Z.M.C.. are .T. A. Jei,kins (New Zealand and Middlesex Hospitals previously attachwl to the \ Z M C. Battalion : lv. Ac s;° I r . ln,u , (New Zealand and University ( ollege), Maior. N.Z.M-C.. D.A.D.M.S.. New Zealand Division, and L. A. Spcdding (Now Zealand an.l Middlesex Hosp.L-d), previoilslv attaeliefl to . o. General Hospital < odford Lieutenant G. C . Harper. B N-- ton of the Von. Archdeacon C . C Harper, \L been transferred fron. the Courageous to the Odin. . , Tho Verv Rev. Dean of Uniapu. who arrived at Glasgow at the U-gmning of October, has just ret urnerlto U don from a three -weeks tour of the i- rench and Belgian battletields. pi vine special attention to m which ' landers were, engaged. Dean Aiaym lias left for Oxford. Cambridge and nther educational centres in order lo »et information that will he useful in The >\aiapn diocese, in its endeavours to found Church schools, secondary and priinarv, in tho very near future. Naturallv the Dean is studying various methods which are being adopted in pre.-ent critical period of the Angli a Church to meet the needs ot the• hour. He expccts to be here until I.ite in .Tanuarv. and inimediatcly upon the arrivaloorl r his Bishop. Dr. Sedgwick, lie will sail for New Zealand. - Lord ijtrathspev wa> one of the nine candidates elected in the Municipa L<form interest for putney ward, in the London Borough Council elections. He polled L'-'34 rotes, the highest pol lor his ward being *-23.0. Lord L.i ly Strathspev arc both active workers for the Putnev branch of tho C onsen ative and Unionist Association. By the declion of Lord Strathspey tor Putnev ward the Wandsworth Borough Council is now represented in the House ot Lords. Captain S. Cory-Wright. N.Z.E.. has been studving water power engineering in Switzerland, and is returning to New Zealand by the Ruahinc. Captain Cory-Wright w.xs before the war a lecturer in civil engineering at Auckland Universitv College, and was then connected -with the construction of the jiydro-electric scheme at Lake Coleridge. * Dr. W. H. Simpson (Dunedin') has fot the past year been connected with the Roval London Ophthalmic Hospital Mtiorfields. where he has now been aj> pointed senior houso surgeon. 3>r Simpson expects to be in London foi " another year, and after that to go t< k F-dinburgh before returning to th< Dominion. The estate of thf late Rev. Willian i Spotswood Green, of "West Core, Caher i daniel. Kerry, lato Chief Inspector oi Fisheries in Ireland, has been prove< at £5480. Mr (jreen was the autboi of "The High Alps of New Zealand and '"The Selkirk Glacicr." Lieutenant C. V. Connolly, R.N.V.R J i (Aucklandj, ivho went out witii Lk l

Kr-mh Narni Brlp-ule t« liarorrntlr hwn »pp'«i«tra >oin«ir Naval Ofrrrr' TJ'f b'-- 1 '<"' v mo!1111 '' 1,1 hi* •virt of the v.-nrl'i l'avo boon lull of inJ or V . T •ruiotn-.nt Connolly went with ,ho ordinal laiuliTi-: rnrty Hu.lajM-t j,„t af.er ii:» fa'l "» Wl; \ K,,n : Tl " % :nn, M n,;.r- won- apparently rather ,urP riM-.l «n«-n :h»' Hrin>h nrrivro :ind 'sartrf! to tJiko nv.-r tho hoyal 1 iiliiro. rtr ami Mindry small nghi.i «.tl. them ] la v.> mi i;rr<'<l. Kverythin;: n.oyai.lo >ai.l to have beer stolen mmi the Hun".irians ! v i iso Houmnnian> and t:iKcn in Kouirania- motor-.ars, true**. railwar rn»jnos. ihroc-lniC machine*, ami faun implement.* -thoroby )oa\in" the countn- in a fairlv doM.tutr .'ond; ion. . jsonior Nsiral Officer l.ioutenaiit ( onanliv hns been allotted a biz palatt.il icsidonco. whirl, was onro the Adrian Kmha.vsy. niui his little <rait--M L. -..OP —is rr.<vri-il in tin* Danubf. rim Vcn Archdcnron H. H. ;" stprof St Paul's Missionary ( ollopo. Lincolnshire, is joiiip out to New" Zealand hefore lon.L' in connexion witb tho establishment of the .Missionary H rot her hood in the "Waiapu diocese. Archdcaeon Foster a number ot vc-irs in South Africa. T'no Nov * ■ 1" Hunt, the first member of the i>roiberho««d. i> already on route for Xe'.v Zeal a nd.