PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18416, 24 June 1925, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES FROM HOME.

GOSSIP ABOUT NEW ZEALANDERS. (FROM OI7K. OWN COHRESPOXDENT.) LONDON, May 22. Earl Jellicoe has accepted the' chairmanship of the Council of o\ei=ea. Settlement of "which the Arcnbishop of Canterbury is president. The Council is an organisation created within the Church of England for dealing with the problem of migration. After the ceremony of declaring open the children's paradisic—"Treasure Island" at Wembley —Earl Jelliceo made a special point of visiting! the Now Zealand Pavilion. He and his party and Exhibition officials were entertained to tea at the 'Jarden Club, and Earl Jellicoe - came to the New Zealr.nd Pavilion with Mr and Mrs Roberts. His visit was a brief one, but he formed an excellent impression of the Pavilion, and he is intending to visit it again with Lady Jellicoe and their family. He signed the \isitors Book while lie was there. _ Mr Walter Parkinson (ex-presiaent of * the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association) is visiting Great. Britain for the first time, accompanied by Mrs and Miss Parkinson. 11'oy came by way of Canada and the United States. During the coming summer they will spend some time motoring through Ireland and Scotland Sir and Lady Chapman have had an interesting time on tno Continent, and among other^ places tu*?\ visited Lucerne, Geneva. \ en ice and Milan. Although it is about sixty vears since Sir Frederick was last in Italy, he found his way about very easily without needing the aid ol a guide. A few days ago lie was renewing his associations with oldhaunts in the Temple —he studied law in England many vears aso, and was called to the Bar at inner Temple. For the present Sir Frederick nnd Lady Cliapmau are staving in South Kensington. The Rev. A. T. Thompson (Welling-, ton), general secretai*}' lor Australia oi the British and Foreign Bible Society, arrived in London at the request oi the parent committee of the society to speak at their annual meeting, which took nlace a.t the Queen's H;>11. Mr Toomev lias since addressed the lull committee at the Bible House, and tomorrow he is speaking for the society at the Crystal Palr.ce Great National Bible Day. Before long he will leave for the Continent to see some of the work on the field in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Italy, and on his wry to Australia Mr Thompson will break his journey at Port iSaid, the hendqimrtei .1 of the society's work in Egypt ami Palestine and make himself acquainted with conditions ;,t first- hand. In June he will attend the annual conference of the British Missionary bocitties at >Swanwick. Mrs Thompson, her mother (Mrs IX Y. Cameron, of Mastert<r.r, -md her sister (Mrs B. IL-Bunny, .Masterton) are travelling with him. On his return, in the autumn, he will taivi over the work of tin- society in Australia as the Commonwealth Secretary. Mr Valentino Snakling, direvtor of the firm of Messrs Spalding and Hodge, Ltd.. of London, has booked his passage bv the Osterley, leaving on May 30th. "He will cross to New Zealand bv the first boat. Mr Spalding, who is going out to establish a New Zealand branch of this well-known wholesalepaper and stationery business, will make Christ-church his first objective. Sir O. H. Dillner (Parncii) and Mr C'. J McPherson (Greymouth), engineers of the Union Steam Ship Co.. are >n Jinaland on a business mission. They

are going to Newcastle to join two new steamers which are building there, and they expect to sail for New Zealand in two or three months' time. Mr A. F. Turubull. manager, Dairy Produce Department, New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, "Wellington, is here purely on business. He hopes to gain an insight into tho marketing of New Zealand dairy produce, and with this object in view he has lately been to Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee, Mid next weeic he leaves for Denmark. At tho end of the month ho will sail by the Montrose to Canada, and after a short stay there he hones to reach New Zealand in July by tht> Tahiti.