PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 41, 16 August 1918, Page 9

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

(PROS OUE OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 2Sth June,

The engagement is announced of Constance, only daughter of Captain N. and Mrs. Beaumont, Dunedin, and .Lieutenant G. P. Fitzgerald, N.Z.M.C., eldest son of Dr. Fitzgerald., Dunedin. Mrs. Beaumont and liar daughter have been engaged on munition work at the Boyal Arsenal- at Woolwich for some time. At present they axe living near the N.Z.F.A. camp at Ewshott. The marriage took plaro in London on 21st June of Captain Roger Gould, 8.F.A., eldest son, of Mr. George Gould, Christchuroh, and Valeric, youngest daughter of Mr. J. W. Bake-well, of Forest End, Sandhurst, Berks.

Major John W. M'Laren, 8.. E., son of! Mr. J. H. M'Laren, Dunedin, was married, at Liinekilne United Free Cburch, Scotland, to Catherine, second daughter of James Auchterlonie, Leckerstone, Dunfermline.

The many friends in New Zealand of Lady Hardwicke (nee Miss Ellen Russell, Auckland), will regret to hear that her "doctors have ordered her complete rest for some months to come, and on this account she has had to give up the work which she has been doing since the beginning of the war for the New Zealand War Contingent Association. Lady Hardwieke is the chairman of the Hospitality Committee, and in this capacity has done a very great deal of most useful work for New Zealand soldiers in England. Mrs. Hobson, who is better known in New Zealand as Bliss Bita Simpson, Wellington, is now engaged in the Office of the Hospitality Committee of the War Contingent Association.

Mrs. WcstaUl (Napier) has been appointed work superintendent in the workshops at the Oatlands Section of No. 2 New Zealand General Hospitai. Under the auspices of the New Zealand War Contingent Association various kinds of handiwork are taught in this institution to wounded and convalescent men. Hitherto it has been, in charge of Mrs. Wood, as honorary instructor. The marriage took place at the Parish Church at Sanderstead last week of Ernest Bates, of Wiuton Croft, Purley Down, and 1 Jessie Muriel Orr, of Auckland. Miss o,rr was until recently Lady Superintendent of the Auckland Hospital.