PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 9 September 1930, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

iTKOH OUB OWB COHEESPOSDKra.) LONDON, August 1. Sir Thomas Wilford is leaving for a short holiday in Scotland, with St. Andrews as his objective, and golf as his main incentive. Asked if he had found his first six months as High Commissioner very strenuous, he replied: "Yes, it has indeed been very strenuous, but I have enjoyed every minute of it. It is only the busy man who has time to do everything that has to be done. I shall loo'", forward to a period of rest when I return to New Zealand at the end of my term in England—and I shall not look for any extension of this poriod." The injury to his knee has practically cleared up now. Before the end of the year, Sir Thomas hopes to visit all the cemeteries in England that have graves of Now Zealand soldiors, and on his way to Geneva, in September, he will visit the cemeteries in France, again to see the graves of New Zealanders who lost their lives in the war. In his office Sir Thomas has been meeting many of the British motorcar manufacturers; he has been in touch with the leading men connected with the wool trade; there have been a number of meetings in referonce t the whale industry, notably with financiers in regard to the building of suitable ships; he is very greatly interested in tho enquiries that have been taking place regarding Muriwai and the Ninety Mile beach as suitable places for putting up the world's motor record—the report regarding tho former is negative, regarding the latter it is very favourable. In this likely venture the Royal Automobile Club is keenly interested. This week Sir Thomas was at the House of Commons during a discussion of tho censorship of films, arranged by the British Empire Film Institute, Today, ho has gone to Manchester iu connexion with the New Zealand apples, ex Tasmania, which havo been condemned on account of brown heart. Tho Hon. T. Shailcr Weston, M.L.C., has been invited to take part in the International Parliamentary Commercial Conference, to be held in Brussols. It will open on September 7th, and it is oxpectcd that about twenty-five delegates from the British Parliament will be prosent. Meanwhile, Mr Weston has left London to join Mrs Weston »n Scotland. They will be in the North during most of August. Mr William Wilson, sen. (Christchurch), has been travelling generally in Warwickshire, with Birmingham as his centre. After a short stay in London he will go to Nice in September, with the intention of spending the winter on the Riviera. News of tho appointment of Mr George Greenwood to bo mill supervisor at tho Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, has given great satisfaction to his friends in the Mother Country. Mr Greenwood is a Halifax man, who left for the Dominion in 1926, and the ''Halifax Daily Courier" devotes some spare to his career. Prior to going to \bw Zealand.- Mr Gropnwnnd liml experience in Bombay, where he was , responsible for getting a worsted plant working and on to a production basis. Before leaving Halifax, he had been lecturer and practical instructor in woollen and worsted varn manufacture at the Halifax, Keighley, and Bradford Technical Colleges, - and was holder of the Drapers' Exhibition silver medal. During the. war, he saw active service in France with the R.F.A., and was wounded and taken prisoner in the great German push of Match. 1918. and suffers a permanent disability of the right arm. a bullet passing through the shoulder joint, and lung, and out through"the shoul-der-blade. The same paper mentionthat his-brother,' Mr Mark It. Greenwood, who went to New Zealand in 1027, has been appointed departmental manager over the worsted section nt the Kniapoi Mills. A number of medical men, having satisfied the Censor's Board, were yesferdav admitted as Members of the Royal Colleee of Surgeons. Among them was Mr H. R. Howells. M.B fNew Zealand}. The diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hypieno. granted by the Rovnl College of Surgeons and Royal College of Physicians, has been awarded to Mr A. B. Cook Otago. Mr John Morgan has been chosen to f»o to So'itH Africa as a member of the British Economic Mission. He is a practical. farmer and the ndvoratp of a «tron<» agricultural programme Mr Morten has studied ngricnHnrie in New Zfaland. Australia the Unite" States. Denmark, and Holland in each of which countries be has nm'd *peci'<>! attention to marketing methods. He is a tireless worker and a magnetic sneaker. - j It is officially'notified that Lieut.Commander E F. Disbrowe, R.N.. hj«« been selected to undergo the staff course, cftmrriencinmr in .Tanunrv. Tim officer is a son-in-law of Mr G. Coldham IViHinms. of Raneritnpu. ■ The Air Ministrv notifies that tho | following New Zealanders have been granted short service commissions as pilot officers on probation, with effect from and with seniority of July 12th: D. H. Marsack and C. L. Monckton. The following pilot officers on probation are confirmed in rank (June 28th): L L. S. McNicol and G. E. S. Williams. A New Zealander who belongs to the Oxford University Air Squadron, R.A.F., is Mr J. F. F. Platts Mills, Rhodes Scholar. He will be another year at the University. It is officially notified by the Royal Air Force that among those posted to No. 4 Flying Training School, Egypt, are two New Zealanders: C. L. Monckton (Waipukurau) and D. H. Marsack (Rcmuera). It was notified from Cambridge University on July 29th that a Strathcona Exhibition"had been awarded to J. W. Harding (Victoria University College, Wellington). The exhibitiqp will bring him to St. John's College The examiners in the Final Honour School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Modern Greats) at Oxford have issued their class list. Included among successful students are two New Zealanders, C. A. Sharp (St. John's) and G. H. 0. Wilson (Lincoln). Mr Sharp is a 1928 New Zealand Rhodes Scholar and a native of Dunedin. Mr Wilson was a "fresher" in 1926 and is an old boy of Christ's College. Oxford University has issued a class list m the Final Hononr School of Modern History. New Zealand names , appearing include J. D. Bankine (Exeter College) and C. 0. Brasch (St. John's College). The former has taken second class and the latter third. - SCHOOLS REOPEN. . « THREE DELAYED ONE WEEK. All but three of the Canterbury primary schools resume work to-day. The exceptions are Beckenharh, Fendalton, and Hawardcn, which arc delayed on : account "f th« -non comDlntirm of drainage work 3. These will re-open on : Monday next. The various secondary schools recommence on various dates; the Boys' High School on. Monday, loth; the Girls' Hieh Schools on Tuesday. 16th; St. Andrew's College on the 16th; ; Christ's College on Satiirdav. 20th; St, Bede's on Wednesday, I0tli; St. "r MarCaret's Collego on Wednesdav,. 47th; and Rangi-Ruru.on r Friday, "19th. . . The Training College -begins ;; the third- tens-to-day* and the School ofAf* (•opened ywtwday.