PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

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LONDON, February. 20.

Mr B. O. Duncan (late of Christchurch) is now a resident of London, being managing director of a firm of merchants in the City. Be accom. panied Mr J. B. Merrett on-bujnnt to Hull, where they were shown round the city as the guests of the London and North-Eastern Railway Company. Mr Duncan expresses himself as well pleased with London. He considers that Empire trade should be more widely developed by means of a more active policy among business men. ' • Dr. J. E. H. Cogan,. son of Mrs J. Cogan (Christchurch)j graduated at Glasgow University in the autumn, and then left for Hong-Kong, where he has obtained a good appointment. Mrs Cogan, who is at Plymouth, hopes to join him later on. • The death is announced torday. a» having occurred on February 15th, at the Royal Military Hospital, Aldershot, of Alfred Garratt Foster-Barham, Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Huph Garratt Foster-Bar-ham, of The Pines, Nelson. This young, officer died as the result of injuries received in a Tiding accident, when he was thrown from his horse. He was only 23 years of age. A few days ago Oxford University beat the Dominion students at Oxford in a Rugby match, by three goals and three tries (24 points} to a try. The Dominion students were a verjy strong scratch side, which included five Oxford men, the others being' students of the various London hospitals. These included J. E. Giesen (three-quarter-back) and H. S. H. Gilmer (forward). At the last meeting of the Council of the Royal Empire Society the following New Zealanders were elected Fellows:—Mr T. M. Wilford, K.C., Mr W. M. Barr, Mr George Russell, Mrs M. G. Barr (Wellington), Mr Colin R. McLean, and Mr B. A. N. Woods (Auckland), and.Mr G. F. Morley (Napier). The "Daily Sketch" has the accompanying reference to a former GovernorGeneral: —"Lord Liverpool, who on Wednesday is going to press the Government to scrap Party nonsense and set up a sort of Council of State to rescue agriculture, has. had the advantage of seeing England, from a distance, for he has been Governor of New Zealand. • He is typical of -the brains and experience that make ,np the House of Lords, but I'm afraid that if he thinks he can get Parties to scrap the Party spirit he will be disappointed." "The return of the Premier of Northern Ireland will be welcomed by thousands of people throughout Ulster, and all will be looking forward to the schemes which he proposes to carry out for the advancement of agriculture-and

the reduction of unemployment/', says the "Swday Independent' 'of. Dublin. "Lord Craigavon has had a long sojourn in Australia and New Zealand, so he will doubtless feel like a giant refreshed when he comes home. One of his ambitions is to convert the exhausted boglands of Ulster into fertile fields, and in furtherance' of this he' is. bringing back with him grass seeds, which have not been used in this county before. It has been stated that the man who can make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is a,true patriot, and| if Lord Craigavon can accomplish this he will be a benefactor not only to Northern Ireland, but to the whole country."