LONDON PERSONALS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19832, 21 January 1930, Page 2

LONDON PERSONALS.

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LONDON, December 5. Recent callers at the High Commissioner's Office have included Mr Alec Regan (Dunedin), Mr W. H. Denton (Wellington), Miss Alma Blaekley (Pleasant Point), Mr and Mrs Jos. Graham (Auckland), Miss M. N. Leary (Auckland), Mr 11. T. Dabinett (Wanganui), Mr and Mrs A. J. McKay, Miss McKay (Wellington), Mrs A. E. Young (Christchurch), Miss A. G. Leonard (Auckland), Lady Vogel, Miss Vogel, Mr N. R. Cotton (Christchurch), Mr D. A. Dugard (Wellington), Miss A. Bayly (Auckland), Mr L. J. Crosbie (Auckland), Mr L. Anderson (Auckland), Mrs E. C. Perry (Auckland), Mr O. B. Clayton (Christchurch), Mrs E. Wigg (Havelock), Mr F. L. Kay (Christchurch), Mr Robert Pods (Auckland), Miss Norali Mett (Christchurch), Miss Margaret Aitken (Christchurch), Mr J. C. Westall (Napier), Mr C. A. Washer (New Plymouth), Mrs M. W. Burden (Hastings), Mr 11. 11. Richardson (Auckland), Mr R. Cohen (Wellington), Mrs L. A. Wilson (Seatoun, Wellington), Mr E. Johnson, Miss E. M. Johnson (Dunedin), Mr W. J. Johnson (Dunedin), Mr Gerald F. Neligan (Rotherham), Miss D. Grant Cowen (Auckland), Mrs N. Patrick (Auckland), Mr and Mrs A. 11. Court (Auckland), Mr and Mrs R. W. Sinison (To Awamutu), Mrs Pennethorne (Napier), Miss F. McDonald (Manunui, King Country), the Rev. 8. It. Gardiner (Napier), Mrs M. Barlow (Gisborne), Professor and Mrs Stanton Ilicks (Dunedin and Adelaide), Pay-Lieut.-Commander E. L. K. Fletcher, R.N., and Mrs Fletcher (Wellington), Mr and Mrs S. R. Nicol and eon (Dunedin). Major T. M. Wilkes, Director of New Zealand Air Services, who came to England for a year's refresher course, is at present in Paris.

Dr. and Mrs H. Ilardwick Smith (Wellington) and their son will be in Paris for Christmas. Another New Zealander who will be in Paris at Christmas time is Miss Norma Campbell (Rotorua). Miss Campbell has been gaining experience at a variety of schools in London run under the authority of the London County Council. Mrs Todd, with her three daughters— Dr. Katherine Todd, the Misses Moira and Sheila Todd—and the Misses M. and B. Heggarty (Gisborne) are about due in London after their tour in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. Their stay here will be brief, as they are leaving for Switzerland for the winter sports before going home to New Zealand. Mr Douglas Glass (Auckland) during his stay at Rotterdam, lectured on modern English literature, with spscial reference to the growing school of young poets and writers in New Zealand. In January lie will begin a lecture tour throughout Holland, his subject being "New Zealand—lts History, Present Position, and Future Possibilities." Mr Glass is expected to receive some 6000 ft of film from the High Commissioner's Department to illustrate his lectures.

Miss G. Leonard (Papatoetoe) had an extended tour through the south-western counties, and has since been staying with Mrs A. C. Rawson, at Bcxhill-on-Sea, and with Mrs F. A. Macpherson, at Bournemouth.

Dr. H. S. H. Gilmer (Wellington), who lately qualified, has been appointed medical officer of a cable ship, which is repairing damage done to the Atlantic cables caused by the recent earthquake. The Rev. S. R. Gardiner, who has a living at Kidderminster, has been spending a few days' holiday with relatives at Horsham and Henley.

During the course of a year many strange things are cast up on the Oreti beach (says the "Southland Times"), but probably the strangest of all flotsam came ashore in tho form of a dead elephant —not a sea elephant, but a genuine elephant with trunk and all. The carcase was lying on tho sands in the vicinity of the wreck of the old Hindoo, and a local fisherman who saw the elephant, states that it probably formed part of a travelling circus and, taking ill at sea, was shot and dumped overboard. The tide has since reclaimed the carcase.