PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20989, 18 October 1933, Page 7

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

i I iVj'ii..: t.r.v "\>x i i'iuii.s; , n.\[jy..\' , i .'• I LONDON, September 13. Mr A. Salmond (Queenstown) has come to London to gain further educational .experience and to read in the British Museum and the London University libraries under the guidance of members of the staff at the Institute of Education. During the next tew weeks he will be sce- ! ing something of the various tyr.es | of schools, and will be in attendance at the Institute of Education from October until the end of. the coming session. Mr George Thomson, mining engineer (Opoho, Dunedin). travelled from Quebec by the Empress of Britain and landed at Southampton on September 7. He passed through London on his way to Leamington io see his brother. Dr. W. Traill Thomson. Mr Thomson does not contemplate being in England for more than two months. Mr E. VY. Stringer (Wellington) is spending two months' leave in London, and will report back .for duty f,., the. British Wireless Mai inc Service at the beginning of No- \ ember, lie has recently completed two voyages in the Port Pine. For the last eight years Mr Stringer has been on the seagoing staff of the British Wireless Marine Service. ;

' Brigadier J. G. Browne, C.M.G., ! C.8.E.. D.5.0., has relinquished his [ appointment as Commandant of the ! Iraq Levies, with whom he has served j since 1925. During part of the war i period lie was on the staff of the i Cavalry Corps. Second Australian 1 and New Zealand Mounted Division. Brigadier Browne has seen active service in South Africa. Northern J Nigeria, France, Gallipoli, and | Egypt. He was tour times menUioned. promoted, and was decorated j five times. • It is announced officially that j Captain C. S. J. DtuT. K.N.Z. Artilj lery, is granted the local rank of I captain < August 24), with seniority j November IS. 1926. while employed ion military duty m the United j Kingdom. j Mr John Stick (Palrncrston North) and Mr T. R. Buxton (Dunedin) arrived together recently, having travelled via Suez. The former hopes to gain further journalistic experience in England. Mr G. 11. K. Young (Wellington) —grandson of Mrs T. Fair and nephew of Mr Arthur Fair, K.C., ' Solicitor-General—has sold his new- 1 I est play, a farce, to Mr Fred Du j Pre;:, 'its title is "The Green I Geraniums." It is written on mod-; lorn non-stop lines, and v.-ill bo ; staged following the coming production at. The Ald'wych. Mr Young is i\yeli advanced with another piay which ho is naming "The Lady from j Aberdeen.'' Owing to a difficulty! in completing this he may seek the] collaboration of Mr Du Prez and Mr Maurice Broddell. Apart from | plays. Mr Young is fairly well established as a short ttpr.v contributor to some of the popular papers. To Mr Edgar Wallace he owes his introduction to editors who have since accepted his writings. Mr C. Richards (Takapuna) has for the last three months been on the editorial staff of Messrs George Routledge and Sons, the wellknown publishers. ■Mr Lusty (Auckland) is to leave London next week for a Continental round, to write a series of articles j for one of the newspapers specialis-! tug in wireless. He will go first to Constantinople. j