PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 5

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(nox oe» ova coßuapoxsurr.) LONDON, May 30. Sir James Parr has been invited by the Council of the British Film Institute to address a meeting of a Hbuse of Commons Committee. Sir James's subject will be entitled "Americanisation of the Dominions by Films.'' Sir Huah P. Allen, Director of the Royal College of Music, has left London for Australia and New Zealand, and he is not expected back until about the middle of {September. His Grace the Archbishop of New Zeaiand preached at citoKe i'arish Church on Sunday morning during the bi-centenary celebrations in honour oi Josiah Wedgwood. itie Arcnoishop Ueu icated a new banner for tho Stoke-on-Trent branch of Toe tl. Mr David Jones, M.P. (chairman of tho Meat -frouueers' tsoaru), left iast Monday, with Mr R. S. Forsyth (London manager), lor a tour in the North. They have already visited Liverpool and Manchester, and hare conferred with the principal members of the meat trade in these cities. Last night they went on to Glasgow and will be remaining there until the end of the week. Mr Jones is due to leave by the Aquitania on June 7th. _ He will go directly acro.S3. America, joining the iSiagara on June 28th. Colonel T. A. Hunter (Wellington) ia representing his profession at _ the meetings this week of the British Dental Association, whose deliberations are taking placo at the Great Central Hotel. Ho is to bo made an honorary member of the Association. Colonel Hunter jtfill be in London for the next two or three months. Mr M. Foley (Christchurch) is in England on a holiday tour. He came by Suea and will go back, by way of •Amorica, about the end of this year. During his stay in the Mother Country he will also tour in Scotland and Ireland. Something may also be seen of the Continent. Mr E. D. Andrews is about due in Loudon from a business trip to India, Burma, and Ceylon. Ho hopes to arrive in time to get some lawn tennis practice prior to the Wimbledon Championship meeting. Tho final rounds of tho Cambridge University lawn tennis tournament were decided at Fenner's on May 24th. C. E. Malfroy (New Zealand and Trinity Hall) beat K. C. GandarDover (Harrow and Trinity) in the Doherty Cup contest, the scores being 7-5, 9-7, 7-5. In the final of the doubles (Youll Cup) C. E. Malfroy and E R Avory (Stowe and Magdalene) beat B. O. Porter (South Africa and Trinity Hall), and C. A. Magrane (Argentina and Jesus College) 6-3, 6-0, 6-4. The New Zealander was subsequently awarded his full Blue, and he will play in both singles and doubles against Oxford on June 7th and Bth. Owing to the alterations to Airship RlOl, Lieutenant-Commander W. H. Watt's for India to take up his appoint rr t as .officor-in-chargw of the new Kaiachi Airship Base, has been postponed until about' August. In the meantime Lieutenant-Comman-der Watt, who was formerly resident in Auckland and Napier, ia stationed at tho Royal Airship Works, Cardington, Bedfordshire. Questioned _ regarding the buckling of the tail of RIOO on her last flight, Commander Watt stated that the part affected is not in any way concerned with the general structure of the ship, and is merely a stream-line cap fitted „to finish off the stern of the airship. During the trip, which lasted for 23 hours everything went off most satisfactorily, and the ship was opened out to over 80 miles per hour. London, Bull, Leeds, Manchester, and Liverpool were among the cities passed over during the flight.