NOTES FROM LONDON

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18, 22 July 1919, Page 8

NOTES FROM LONDON

PERSONAL AND OTHER MATTERS

(IROH ODE OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 16th May.

Mrs. Pember Reeves, in evidence before the Birth-rate Commission the other day, said she was in favour of child pensions rather than endowments for mothers, and would grant pensions for .children of all classes, provided they were regularly taken to a clinic and treated as the medical officer approved. She found that the staple articles of diet in poor families were brown bread, milk, chops, and butter. .

Captain F. F. Miles, Gloucestershire Regiment, has gone into residence again at Oxford. He was educated at Southland High School andl Otago University, and came home ■as Rhodes Scholar in 1913.

Several parties of members of the N.Z.E.F. are to visit the port of Hull during the next few weeks as the guests of the Chamber of Commerce and Shipping. , They will be shown particularly the facilities for handling and distributing of New Zealand products. Mr. Edmund B. S. Lucas, who came over with a recent Reinforcement, has been demobilised from the N.Z.E.F. for the purpose of resuming his studies, and has entered upon a medical course at St. Thomas's. Mr. Lucas did not get to France, as the armistice was signed tho day before he was due to leave England.

Mr. iTj H. B. Coates.has been appointed a member of tho N.Z.E.F. Contracts Board in place of the late Mr. Gilbert Anderson.

. The marriage was celebrated at Christ's Church, Lancaster-gate, on 17th April, of Miss Hilda Gwendoline Ash, daughter of the late Joseph Ash, of Warwickshire, and Mr. C. Bradford, of London (formerly of Wellington), son of the late William Bradford, , of London. Miss Ash, who lived for some years in Wellington; came to England in 1917, and was a V.A.D. at, No. 2, N.Z.G.H., Walton-on-Thames. About a year ago she joined the Royal Air Force as a motor driver; and she now holds the rank of C.S.L.

New Zealand journalists who havo visited England at any time during the last nine or ten years will learn with deep regret of the death from pneumonia of Mr. W. H. Marston, secretary of the Empire Press Union. Mr. Marston was assistant to Sir Harry Brittain in the organisation of the first Press Conference in 1909, and was afterwards appointed permanent secretary of the union. In this capacity he came into closer.touch with all visiting journalists, and without exception they had formed a very high opinion of his qualities and his earnest devotion to the duties of the office. Mr. Marston, although not enjoying a strong constitution, joined the Imperial Army a couple of years ago, but the severe infantry training told on his strength, and he was discharged a fow'months later.

In an interview with Reuters Agency on the subject of Imperial preference, Sir Thomas Mackenzie is reported to have said that from a Doniiinion's point of view the concessions made were in the direction of aspirations frequently expressed by their people, and were on the line pursued by the Dominions in reference to the Mother Country over a long period of years. "It may be the result of the war, but probably the war has only given effect to what has been expressed by our representative speakers during a period of years. Although at present the new departure does not go very fax, it is undoubtedly an expression of a principle that may develop to the great advantage of all of us in the Empire. It will, at any rate, place the British people in tho position of being able to negotiate with other nations on a fair and more equitable basis." )Mr. E. A. T. Perkins has been appointed an Assistant District Commissioner in the East Africa Protectorate. Mr. Perkins is a son of Dr. Perkins, of Newtown, Wellington. He left with the Main Body, from which he got his commission in the Royal Artillery. He served chiefly in Salonika, and rose to the rank of captain.