NEWS OF NEW ZEALANDERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 161, 28 September 1927, Page 5

NEWS OF NEW ZEALANDERS

(From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, August 30. Mr. and Mrs. John Fuller, of Wellington. have arrived in England for an eighteen months’ tour. Miss Vera Curtis, of Masterton, intends touring England, Scotland and the Continent before returning to New Zealand. * * * Mr. E. Axl’ord, of Auckland, who has been holidaying in England. # is now engaged In journalistic work on the “Western Mail.” Cardiff. Mr. Stanley Morgan, third son of Sir. and Mrs. A. Morgan, Wellington, who have settled in this country for four years, will return shortly to New Zealand to take up farming. Miss H. M. X>akin, of Matamata, who is visiting relatives in this country, will spend August at the seaside. She returns to New Zealand by the Hobson’s Bay, via Sydney, on October 4.

Mr. R. G. Morgan, of Wellington, is in South Wales. He will later go on to Ireland after attending the Royal National Eisteddfod. He expects to be in London again by September.

Mrs. T. E. Bowes, of Christchurch, has been motoring with her brother in the Lake District, Devon and the cathedral towns of the South. She is now staying in Middlesex with her younger brother, Mr. J. E. Hunt.

Sir James Parr was invited to open the Norwich and Eastern Counties Grocers’ and Allied Trades Exhibition on October 5 at the Norwich Agricultural Hall. This is a very important institution, but unfortunately Sir James was unable to accept owing to the probability at the time the letter was received of his having to attend the League of Nations Assembly at Geneva.

The Rev. S. L. Boot. Presbyterian Minister of North cote, Auckland, is in London, accompanied by Mrs. Boot. They have been visiting Ireland and Scotland and are going overland to catch the Narkunda at Marseilles, en route for New Zealand, via Australia.

The Rev. G. A', and Mrs. Gerard, of Timaru, intend remaining in this country for two years, during which time Mr. Gerard hopes to obtain experience of work in several parishes. Mis brother, Lieut. O. J. Geral-d, is serving on the Dunedin, and Mrs. O. J. Gerard and her small daughter are leaving for New Zealand next month by the Mataroa. Another brother, Mr. E. S. Gerard, will arrive in England in September by the Tamaroa in order to go into residence at Brasenose College, Oxford, to study English literature. • • • The New Zealanders just failed to beat Surrey at the Oval last week, but in spite cf their being unable to secure a decision, played an excellent game. The final scores at the drawing of stumps were: New Zealand. 313 and 371: Surrey, 377 and 284 for eight wickets. J. 15. Mills in the first innings scored 103 for the visitors in about four and a-half hours, while in tho second innings C. S. Dempster made 101 in two hours twenty minutes. E. C. Blunt in the first innings took four Surrey wickets for 128 runs, and W. E. Merritt three for 106. In the second innings Merritt took five wickets for 103. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. McKenzie, of Dunedin, left England on August 13 and are spending a fortnight in Switzerland and Italy. Miss Kathleen Moore, of Christ** church, who is visiting friends and relatives in England, will return to New Zealand by the Orient Line oil October 1. • • • Mr. Shayle Gardner has not been able to accept Mrs. Louis Pearson’s terms of contract to play lead to Mrs.