PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 22 September 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

(i-bca: pvr. ottv coeeesicxdbs'i., ; -LONDON, August 15. Commander the Hon. Guy Stopford, 8.N.. has been placed.on the retired list", at his own request., with the rank r -of' Captain!' ' In Septem-l>er,-1922, he joined the cruiser Dunedin for service in the New Zealand Division, and " Irani" May, 1927, to February,last he ! was staff* officer to the Rear-Admiral; i at Rosytb"- His- elder -brother, Bear- ! Ydiniral the Hoc. Anhur Stopford,' 1 it-tired! last. .Year. Both are sons ot Lord Courtown." , . , ~ , ' Mr F It.- Wilford (Chmtchureii) has arrived "to 'attend the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, with a view tu i ibir.ing the Fmish Army. He v.-a* a ! passenger by the Taiiim. I Messrs G. I'.-Patterson Auckland) ! and J. R. Smith (Chri.stch>:rcli) spent August week camping at Collision 1 Water, in the English Lake Country. i During the course of. a 400-raile motor I tour all the lakes were visited. Several of the highest peaks tvere climbed,, from whiclr fine views of the district were obtained. .-. , • ■_, ' Mr S. R. Whitley, who led the Farmers' Touring : Party in New Zealand early thi<strear, -gave an address to ihe Rotarv'Club ot Reading; last week, hir, subject being Now Zealand. Jn praiie of the great beauty of the country and the wonderful loyalty of its people to the Homeland. Mr Whitley had much to say .The'only drawback to the great kindness everywhere shown to the visitors was that there was not time enotig'i ro enjoy it all. He, dealt briefly with' the. early hutory of the Dominion and -at same--leniitiv with the agricultural developments and" practices of the country. - • Mr Vi-f non Redwood ( nephew of Archbishop Redv, ood) was. the- chief speaker at...;.the inauguration .of a '.branch of the United Empire Party at Palmer's Green a few days. ago.. There was a great deal of noisy, interruption,' hut Mr .Redwood seems to have carried his points very firmlv. The Rev. J. E. Parsons. (St. Paul's Methodist Church, Palmerston North) received a cordial welcome at the Engli*h Methodist Conference, held at Bradford, Sheffield, and Leeds, which; he attended : as the representative of the New Zealand Conference. He ad--dressed all the assemblies and created a very favourable impression of life and work of his church in the Dominion. At the conference at Leeifc he was accompanied by Mrs and Miss Parsons. Then all throe made'a-;Scot-tish tour, spending a few days m the far north as the guests of Mrs MeCreath, Clynelish Farm, Lroro. • Manyapplications are being made for Mx Parsons's services, and among the appointments'accepted are Walsall Wesleyan Mission, Wesley's Chapel. City Road, and Guernsev Weslev Guild Festival (October oth)'!