NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1700, 17 March 1913, Page 2

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

London, February G. Sir Montague Kelson, who is recuperating at Warwick, is reported to be going on nicely. . , , , ~ • Tho High Commissioner presented the prizes to the students of Cusack's College last week. , Hiss Hetherington, of the Thames, returns to New Zealand on March It by the Orient route. Mrs. Leopold Myers, late of Auckland, is spending a short time at her son's school in Hampshire nursing him through an attack of measles. Mr. W. J. Cva,n (St. Bartholomew s Hospital), and Mr. S. H. Hay (Middlesex Hospital), both of Ne\v Zealand 1 , took tho L.R.C.P. last week. Dr. Bernard Myers, late of Wellington, has moved from Priory Road, Hampstead, to Wimpolo Street. Mr. Frank E. Bowen, of Christcliurch, is visiting England, his address being care .Tames Hill nnd Sons, wool merchants, Bradford. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Archer, with Miss H. A. Archer, of Christchurcli, are staying at Derriford, Plymouth. The Bight Rev. Francis Redwood, Archbishop of Wellington, is staying at the Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square. Mr. Adam M'Cracken ,of Christchurch, is on a visit to England, his address being caro of Koyal ..Colonial Institute, Northumberland Avenue, W.C. It is generally thought, according to the "World" of last week, that when Lord Aberdeen resigns the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, Lord Islington will be appointed in his place. Mrs. Mabel Manson, late of Dnnedin, took the leading soprano part in the oratorio "St. Paul," given by the choir of the Willesden Presbyterian Church this week.

The High Commissioner for New Zealand presided at a lecture entitled "The Late General Booth as X Knew Him," given on Sunday last at the Salvation Army Hall, Shepherd's Bush. Mr. W. N. Mulville, of Wellington, is over on a trip to Ireland, his native country, and will stay some time ip Dublin before returning' to New Zealand. He is at'present in London. Mr. 11. W. Sleddbn, of the Waikato, who has been motoring extensively in Devonshire since lie caine over, is at present in a nursing home in Liverpool. Mr. H. C. Cameron, of the High Commissioner's Department, lectured a few days ago ot the Fulham Technical Training College, and has promised to do so for, the Victoria League at Ipswich this week, on "New Zealand." Dr. Arthur C. Wohlmann and Mrs. Wohlmann are at present at Bournemouth. Dr. Wohlmann hopes to visit some of the principal spas, with a view to picking up useful hints, but is here primarily - on holiday. ' The Duchess of Marlborough is undertaking the promotion of an exhibition of women's work. Strong Committees aro being formed, and Mrs. Mackenzie has accepted the chairmanship for the dealing with New Zealand women's work"! Mr. Geo. W. Adair, boys' director of the Y.M.C.A.; Wellington, after travelling much in America, was for four months on the staff of the Newark (New Jersey) Association, which has a boys' membership of 800.. On his return, Mr. Adair will take up the position of director of boys' work in Auckland's new Y.M.C.A.

The High Commissioner is engaged to lecturo at Bristol on February 15, on the question of Junior Emigration and the necessity of training lads for stilled occupations. He will deal with tho question from the colonial point of view, and Kill urge the training of lads in. agriculture prior to their going abroad. Mr. J. J. Hammond, tho well-known aviator, who hails ! from :, New 'Zealand; and intends to return thare in the summer, took up aviation quite unexpectedly, having come over Tiere for a holiday 1 111 1908. He has tho rare record in'aviation of never having had any sort of accident. Beforo leaving he has undertaken to give exhibition flights Jit Eastbourne; Amongst the New Zcalanders in the audience at the Savoy Hotel, last week, when a private audition of Mr.. Alfred Hill's "Moorish Maid" was given, were Mrs. Thomas Mackenzie, Miss Mary Mackenzie, Miss Chappie (daughter of Dr. Chappie. M.P.). Lady Ward. Miss Eileen Ward, Lady Plunket. Miss Eosina Bnckmann, Sir Joseph Ward, and tho Hon. Thomas Mackenzie.

In moving a vote of thanks to Mr. T. E. Sedgwick, for a very interesting, lecture oil New Zealand, the superintendent of a boys' home said/ last week, that people from other parts of the world always thought that they did things better there: it was a trait of the Anglo-Saxon character. He had noticed the same thing in Americans in New. York. In renly, Mr. Sedgwick stated that ho was an Englishman, who saw Tiow much better things were dono in New Zealand, and came to tell them alwut it. Ho was not a New Zealander born. On Wednesday, February 19, Mr. C. H. Poole, an ex-member of the New Zealand Legislature, will deliver an illustrated address on "New Zealand Up-to-Date. at the Central Y.M.C.A., Tottenham Court Road. Mr. Poole arrived in London about six weeks ago, ivia America, where, under the auspices of the Chatauqua Association, during the course of a five months tour he delivered 250 lectures, dealing with social and general life in New Zealand. ' '