FROM OVERSEAS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1930, Page 7

FROM OVERSEAS

PASSENGERS ON lONIC. AUCKLAND, Aug. 26. Among the passengers brought to Auckland by the liner lonic this morning was Mr F. N. Hemphill, an ex-King’s College boy who went to England three years ago to join the Royal Air Force. Mr Hemphill is not-certain whether lie is lucky or unlucky to lie in Auckland. He was unfortunate to .receive severe concussion when playing in the Air Cup Rugger competition, but luck was with him when lie crashed twice after his football mishap and escaped serious injury, although the machine lie was flying was badly damaged. “Young chaps with ideas of going to England to join the Flying Corps should give the'matter full consideration before setting out,’> he said.

Mr H. A. Rose, a barrister of the Inner Temple;, is on a health tour. He last*visited New Zealand seventeen years "ago, but lived here for two years during 1909 His wife, formerly a Miss Lang, is n native of Dunbdin. ‘As f ..Mr Rose has to he in England ,by 4 October 16, h& is going straight back by the Rangitane. WELLINGTON MAGISTRATE. Mr J,’ Barton, S.M., and Miss Hazel Barton, of Wellington, returned after a seven months’ tour of the world. They went home via Suez and spent a week at, Gibraltar, then crossed to Tangier - and subsequently travelled for three weeks in Spain, Before proceeding to England, they visited Holland and Germany and went up the Rhine to Switzerland. Mr Barton said that he was mast interested in visiting the International Labour Bureau at Geneva. Returning to Paris for a few days they later went on London; thence they proceeded to Scotland and Cornwall and back via Piihama to New Zealand. Mr and Miss Barton leave for Wellington to-night. ‘ CONDITIONS AT HOME. ' Mr C. Stevens, a business man of Auckland, has returned after a seven month’s trip to England. Discussing affairs at Home, he said that they were in a pretty had way, but, business people with whom he had • come in contact expressed the opinion that Great Britain had now turned the corner..