NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22520, 30 September 1938, Page 22

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON (VBOlt OCm OWI COSBE3POXDEKT.) LONDON, September 5. ,- Flying Officer C. C. Hunter,- ~\ R.N.Z.A.F. (Auckland), who was (formerly stationed at the WigranV aerodrome, Christchurch, has completed a specialist signals course at. \\the Electrical and Wireless School,'~*Cranwell. He is to continue his signal studies at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough. Mr J. C. Hayhurst (Temuka) has returned to London after a month's , visit to the main agricultural colleges and research institutes of England. It was officially gazetted on September 2 that the following New Zealand acting-pilot officers on probation are confirmed in their appointments and graded as Pilot Officers:—W. R. McComb, K. J. a. Jchnstone (Auckland), A. W. Nelson, P. Shennan, A. W. Mack, H. A. Trenchard, and K. F. Vare (Wel- : lington). N. McClelland (Christchurch), J. R. Neill (Dunedin), D. Carlson (Waikato), R. W. McCarthy (Wanganui), K. N. Rea (New Plymouth), A. C. Glenday (Timaru). Mr Ronald Macmillan, eldest son of Mrs A. E. Macmillan, of Ashburton. is a novice at the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield. where he is known as Brother Ronald. He is one of 70 students. The course, which he is finding very interesting, is one of three years.* In memory of the founder of this order, the late Bishop Gore, a memorial church costing £39,000, was recently dedicated by the Archbishop of York. Mirfield has been a training college for many men of , eminence who have gone to different parts of the Empire, as missionaries. Brother Ronald is the first. New Zealander to have entered Mirfield. Mr P. S. Anderson (Christchurch) arrived in London by way of Cape Horn on July 2. He has recently j been accepted for a short service commission in the Royal Air Force, and this means that he will be away from New Zealand for at least four years, although he may not be in England all that time. The first intimation that many people had of the arrival in the Old Country of Mr R. J. Richards was an advertisement which appeared in "The Times" and which read: "Headmaster, Christ's College, "N.Z., now in England, please communicate grandmother of a pupil.—Tippet, Barton-on-Humber." MrILE. Orchard (Christchurch) is one of 18 New Zealanders sent by the New Zealand Government to take short service commissions in the Royal Air Force. At the end of August Mr Orchard is to report to a flying school in Scotland for preliminary training. Referring to Mr W. J. Jordan's presidency this year of the Council of the League of Nations, by virtue of which office he presided at the opening' meeting of the Assembly, the "Manchester Guardian" remarked: '"Members of the Metropolitan Police Force must be gratified to kjgfiw that a man who once wore their uniform and patrolled streets imEast London, long before Headon College and its public school men' were dreamed of, is to hold suck high' office. They may feel it is appropriate that a former policeman should do so at a moment when it is the desire of the peoples of the world that the ideas about law and order prevailing in a well-organised democracy should also govern international affairs." _^