ABOUT PEOPLE

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 33, 8 August 1921, Page 8

ABOUT PEOPLE

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON, 21st June.

New Zealand students at Cambridge who have been successful in the recent honours lists havo included Mr. R. G. Riding (Queen's College), a N.Z.E.F. Scholarship holder, who is taking a course of agriculture, aoid who has taken a. second class in Part I. of the natural science tripc-s; Mr. G. 1 H. Hoi'ton (Auckland and' Trinity Hall),. who has been successful in Part I. of the economics tripos. In Part 11. of the .classical triposes, Mr. J. V. "Wilson (Canterbury College and Trinity College) has been successful in the philosophy section. Mr,. W. H. Cocker, a N.Z.E.F. Scholarship holder (Victoria College, Wellington, and Emmanuel) has taken a firstclass in Part 11. of the law tripos. He has been making economics and civics his special study under the terms of his scholarship. Mr. Cocker, who belongs to Christcbufch., had a commission in the Otago Infantry Regiment. Mr. C. N.Maclean (Palmerston. North aJid Jesus Col-' lege) has taken a second-class in Part I. of the historical, tripos.' Mr.H. C. Macarthy (Jesus College) was excused the special examination in engineering soienoes in mechanical sciences' Tripos. One ■of the biggest atid brightest matches played at the opening of the lawn tennis championship at Wimbledon was that between Major A. R.F. Kingscote and Mr. F. M. B. Fisher, in the first round of the men's singles. In the result the New Zeaknder was defeated (6-2, 6-1, 7-5), but tho contest seems to have been a very striking one, and Mr. Fisher is the subject of many complimentary remarks in the papers. To-day, the A Morning Post, for instance, says : "Fisher was just the man to bring 6ut Kingscote's good points. In 'the third sot it 1 looked at one time as if the New Zealand'er might be able to hold his own, mainly try means of bis powerful smashing and clevei: volleying. , He advanced to! 4-1, and this only seemed to spur Kine;.soote on to greater de^dis." , * Mr. A. R. Flint,-a prominent resident of Derby^—lawyer, a of the local council, and one interested 'in municipal affairs—is shortly leaving England with his family, to take up residence in New Zealand. The regret of the" Derby Town Council at losing tho servic«s of Mr. Flint was voiced by the Mayor at the last meeting, who re-, marked that they had all admired the' clean and incisive way in which he tackled any . subject, his fearlessness at all. times, and his honesty of purpose. He was very well known in Rugby football circles. At a * farewell dinner he was presented with a Crown Derby dessert service. '•' , ■■■' '■■

Mr. A. R. Underwood, who is well known in business circles in New Zealand, has joined the board of. Messrs. F. J. Fytherleigh and Co.,' in London. He will take charge of the buying department'for -Australasia. ' ' •

Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Campbell (Napier) spent some days in Paris before coming to London, and they took the opportunity from, there of making a tpur of the battlefields. They have in contemplation motor trips in different parts of England. „ / Mr. L. Edgar Whitaker. (Palmerston North), "the youngest son of the original founder of Whitaker's Almanack, , has come from New Zealand for the purpose of joining the^firm of Messrs. J. Whitaker and Sons 1 as business manager. Mr. Whitaker served in the South African War and was gazetted captain in the R.N.Z.A. at the outbreak of the recent war, : and was chief ophthalmic surgeon and treasurer of one of the boards in New Zealand.

■ Miss Una M. Smith (Napier) left the Morea at Marseilles and spent a few days in Paris and the battlefield area before coming on to London. At the conclusion of her visit she intends returning by way of Canada.

• Dr. Makgill is taking part in the 32nd annual congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute, at Folkestone. Mr. and Mrs. D. Sutherland (Wairarapa) and Miss Sutherland crossed to France soon after their arrival in April, arid they made a torn. 1 of the battlefield area. Mr. Sutherland lost a son in the war, and a special journ-y was made to Poperinghe Cemetery. '■ They cut short their stay in Sthe war zone area, because they saw so much destruction. Mr. Sutherland was very greatly impressed with the appearance of the country in Flanders, the "cropping" there and in France being very fine. Next month the travellers' are going through to Scotland, and they have booked return passages to New Zealand by the September sailing ,pf the Orvieto.