PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18924, 12 February 1927, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

IMOU OUB OCH COJUMPOSDrKT.) LONDON, December SO. Sir James Mills has disposed of the lease of his London house, 60 Princes Uate, South Kensington. He is going abroad to avoid the winter. Mr C. M. Kocken, B.Sc. (MotlO D. Phil. (Oxton), the newly appointed lecturer in PhvsU.-s at Ls on a hoiidav in Switzerland, an'l he will have only one week in England before leaving tor Nc«- Zealand. U<j has booked his passage hy the C unurci liner, Aseania, leaving Southamptonon .lanuarv -JOth, and travelling via New York, Toronto, and Vancouver, he will connect at the latter port with the Tahiti on February oth. arriving in Auckland at the end of that month. Mr Fockeu exacts to be in Dimedin by the first week of March. This will be his first acquaintance with New Zealand, as he has never visited the Dominion. He was educated at -Melbourne and knows most cf the Australian capitals. Mr Alhcrt J. Biitchclor, late secretary of the Australian Hoard of Missions in Western Australia and formerly of the New Guinea Mission, has been appointed organising secretary of the Missionary Exhibitions Department of the S.P.G. He has lately returned to England from New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, and the United States.