NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 79, 27 December 1917, Page 3

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

PERSONAL .NOTES FROM LONDON. London. October 18. Colonel Syraons (Wellington), on leave from France, has been staying with Mrs. Symons in the Cornish Riviera. Major Knyvett, R.F.A., of Auckland, who has been wounded six times} is now convalescent and in England. Mr. S. T. Stidolph, who served at Gallipoli with the N.Z.E.F. and was discharged, is training for the R.F.C. Mr. Scott Symington, formerly engineer to the Christchurch Tramways Board, is an inspector of War Munitions in New York. Sergeant-Dispenser 15. J. Munro, of Auckland, who is here on transport duty, has been visiting London and Leicester on leave. Captain W. Tell, R.A.V.C, of Wellington, has been mentioned in dispatches for valuable services in connection with the war. Miss Kathleen Burleigh, daughter of the. late Captain Burleigh, of Bay of Islands, is matron of the Edinburgh Children's Hospital. Miss Russell (Hawke's Bay), daughter of Sir Andrew Russell, G. 0.0., of the New Zealand troops, is returning to Now Zealand almost immediately.

Second Lieutenant B. G. Blunt, R.G.A.. son of Professor .Blunt, of Christchurch, who was in hospital in Rouen, has been discharged to a reinforcement depot. Mre. Earry Crawford (Miramar), daughter of Colonel Pearce, is returning to New Zealand very shortly. Sha is accompanied by her son, who has received his discharge from the Army. Miss M. M. Simcox, of Forest Lakes, Otaki, is shortly returning to New Zealand. She was nursing for 15 months in Egypt, and then came to England in 1916, but her health gave way through overwork. Lieutenant-Commander Frank Worsley (Nelson), who was captain of tho Countess of Ranfurly for some years, trading between Auckland and Eurotonga, is in London on leave from his ship. Commander Worsley was with Sir Ernest Shackleton in the Antarctic.

Mr. Hal Atkinson (Wellington), who oamo to join the Navy, is now on patrol duty in the Channel. He has been on short leave in North Cornwall, and staying with Mr. and Mrs. F. Waldegravo, who are spending a holiday there. Miss Catherine Aulsbrook, _ the New Zealand contralto, has been singing for some of the gramophone companies. Two of her songs: "In God's Own Keeping" and ''When God Gave Yon to Me" are to be had in Edison Bell records. Canon Stack, formerly of New Zealand, and now of Worthing, has knitted over a hundred scarves since the beginning of the war. He is 82 years of age. Mrs. Stack, who is also over 80, has knitted 16 quilts for tho poor and several dozen jerseys for New Zealanders at the front. Mrs. Arthur Pluggo, who has been doing inestimable work at the High Commissioner's Office in tho Prisoners of War Department, for some time, is shortly returning to New Zealand. Colonel Pluggo, who has been at Aldershot'gathering the latest information on physical trainjng, returned to the front on Thursday last. ' The High Commissioner for New Zealand has set up a special department in the Prisoners of War Department to arrange for the entertainment, in the houses of English hosts and hostesses, of any New Zealand officers and men over here on leave who I wish to avail themselves of such hos- J pitality. This is, of oourso, in addition to tho arrangements that are made for sick, wounded, and convalescent New Zealandnrs by the N.Z. W.C.A. A number of New Zcalanders resident in London will willingly net a» guides to London, on. any excursions thai men on leave care t« make. .