PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20957, 11 September 1933, Page 4

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

(MtOJI OUR OWN COHKESrOKDENT.) LONDON, August 8. Mr W. A. lorns, chairman of the Dairy Produce Board, will leave England in a few days to connect with the Makura at San Francisco. He will there join the Prime Minister's party. On August 12 Mr .Kenneth Myers will leave for New Zealand by way of Canada. His mother, Lady Mvers, will go with him as far as Vancouver. Mr Myers recently aualified as a chartered accountant. He is a son of the late Sir Arthur Myers. Captain J. G. Frere D.S.p M.C., Second Battalion the Suffolk Regiment, who has been, officiating as deputy-assistant Adjutant-General at Simla, is confirmed in that appointment. Captain Frere was born in New Zealand, and has had considerable service in India, in the middle of 1930 he, with Mrs Frere and Major E. L. Farley, was kidnapped by Achakzai raiders on the Quetta-Chaman road, on tne Afghan border. .Release came two days later. Mr Fred E. Bennett (Gisborne) arrived in July to visit his parents and sister, who live at Willesden. He came by the Port Hunter, and expects to leg,ve again at the beginning of September.

Dr. W. H. Eniwistle (Auckland) has been appointed to a lectureship at Queen's University, Belfast. He will take up his duties in October. Mr P. C. Carman (Invercargill), a student at University College, London, is spending part of his vacation on a cycling tour of Germany. Mr James Lobb (Lawrence) has been spending a few days at Ringwood, in the New Forest. He has also been looking round from Bournemouth as a centre, and now he has moved on to his native county—Cornwall—to spend a few weeks. Mr E. H. MeCormick (Tauhape) has completed his course at Cambridge University, and he will probably be leaving for New Zealand at an early date. He came to carry out research in English literature at Clare College. Mr McCormiak has recently been motoring in Scotland and cycling in Ireland. Mr D. W. Bain (Christchurch) has left for a Continental tour which is to include France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Den- . mark. From Copenhagen he will ; cross to Newcastle. A visit to Scot- ; land will follow, and probably in September or October Mr Bain will ! leave for New Zealand. He has i been gaining experience in London with a news agency. A young New Zealand architect, i who has settled down in London and who appears to be well estabi lished, is Mr G. Bryant Hobbs, . A.R.1.8.A., son of Mr F. W. Hobbs (Christchurch). While he was in

the office of a well-known firm in Clifford's Inn he had charge of the erection of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art—a building that is interesting in as much as it houses its own theatre, and is also the principal school of training for the English stage. At present Mr Hobbs is architect for a number of large residences in north-west London. ■ I