NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2249, 8 September 1914, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. London, July 30. Mr. Herbert Smitli, of Wellington, leaves shortly for a trip to Scotland. ■ 'Hie High Commissioner has been staying at Louth, in Lincolnshire. ■ Mr. S. E. L. Aickin, of Auckland, is staying at Shelbourne House. Bedford Square. The Misses Lena and Eosa van Staveren, of Wellington, loft London last week for tours of Holland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and France. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney_ L. Boote, of Auckland, who arrived in June, are touring through Scotland and Ireland. Their address is "Helston," Western Road, Southall, W. Mr. Lome D. H. Huttori, of Dunedin, after 6ightseeing in. London, will further his knowledge in architecture by studying at various architectural colleges for the nest two years. Mr. and Mrs. J. King, of Dunedin, are staying with relatives at Hampstead, and later on will probably visit the Continent before sailing for New Zealand at the end of the year. Mr. and Mrs. John Hunter Brown, of Wairoa, Hawke'a Bay, and their daughter, Miss Browri, who make a trip to this country every five years, left last week by motor for Scotland. They intend to ■ spend l some ' - months. there visiting relatives • and friends. 'Mr. W. T. Gilbert, a sheep farmer, of Wellington, has with his wife been visiting friends in l Hampshire, Scotland, and various towns in England since -his arrival in" May." Next week they leave for a short stay in Paris before going on a motor tour in the south of England. They leave on September 2 for America and the Fiji Islands. _ Mr.- and Mrs. Malcolm Niccol, of Auckland and Ohristchurch, intend to Bpend the nest month in and around London, then going on to Scotland for a further month, and to the Continent for some weeks. Mr. Niccol is grand secretary' of the Freemasons of New Zealand, who have granted him six months' leave of absence. Mrs. M. Jcrred, of Christchurch, and her sister, Miss Bell, have toured 1 Ireland, Cornwall, and Devonshire, and are now at Tutbury, in Staffordshire, but shortly go to relatives in Birmingham, Darlington, and Sunderland (their native place). They intend to travel in tho Holy Land before leaving by the Maloja on November 13. • Mr. David L. Nathan, of Wellington, who was until recently a momber of the board of the Bank of Now Zealand, arrived in London a few days ago, and is at present staying, accompanied by his married daughter, Mrs. Alfred Sallanger, and Miss Nathan who is at school in Germany, but haß come over to be with her father while he is in England), at Seaford. " ' Dr. George J. Adams (N.Z.) arrived in Scotland recently with his wife and children. He is from Palmorston, where he hopes to dispose of his practice. Dr. Adams came up to London to buy a car, on which he is motoring through to Edinburgh this week to join his family. ■ He is going up for the F.B.C.S. in .October.' Seven years ago he graduated in Edinburgh. _ Mr., W. Brown, managing director of the firm of Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., general merchants, of Wellington, is over in England with his son, Mr. Percy Brown, of Lower Hutt, having spent some time in Java and Singapore en route. They left on Tuesday for a five weeks' tour of Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland, and on their return, will tour the British Isles till November, spend two months on tho Continent, and then stay for some weeks in Egypt, Ceylon, and India on their way back to' New. Zealand.