LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1923, Page 3

LONDON PERSONALS

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

(rHOM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) „ -■•.-■ LONDON, 12tn.July. Numerous friends in New Zealand .will be -interested "to hear that Mr. and Mrs. E. H. C! Sanders (Auckland) have met. with an enthusiastic reception wherever they have been, for the _ exploits of idaring undertaken by their : son, the late Lieutenant-Commander ,W. E. Sanders, V.C., were known to i many. While staying in London they received a Command' from Buckingham Palace to have ah audience: with the King and Queen. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders were received on 28th June, and for a quarter of an hour Their Majesties conversed witK the travellers. Since then tliey have/been staying, in Wales as the guests of Mr. J. H. Caldwell, whose son was'a wireless operator on board the Mystery Ship and took part in the action for'which the'V.O was subsequently awarded to Lieuten-ant-Gbmmander Sanders. Since arriving in Wales, Mr. and Mrs. Sanders have had one continous round of

pleasure; ; and they have been enthusiastically received by everybody. "From Wales they will go to Lancashire and' Yorkshire, and then to Lanark to stay with Lieutenant W. D. Beaton, D.5.0., who was second-in-command to 'the.ir son. On 18th August they will sail by the Ormuz en route to New Zealand via Suez.

News, has been received by the High. Commissioner of the death of Mr. 'Sidney Herbert Wells. Mr. Wells was previously in the Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand, _and:he retired some yeara ago. During the Avar He lived in London and was engaged in war work in one <of the Government departments. Afterwards he was: temporarily' employed by the Immigration: Branch at the New Zealand \Office. At the end of 1922 he went'to'..live "at Southend, and later he went 'to- Jersey. '■ ■ ■'- - ' ■ , . ;, Mr. tE. Dale (Wellington and Auck-iandj'is-here on a.brief visit of business, and pleasure combined. He.intends to go to.Belgium and Germany,-and to

sail probably about October. ' . -. Mr. and Mrs. Rittsoh-Thomag (Marl-

b'orpugh),- .Miss Rittson-Thdmas; .and Miss Troloye are on,a pleasure trip to the Mother Country. , They have boughtr-a-motor-car, and will presently start pri a tour through to.Wales and Scotland.. Just now they are in Devonshire with relatives! • ; . Mr. 'J. H. ~; A. Sanders (Dannevirke) has been staying with friends and relatives' in England, and is now making his headquarters for a time at Bournemcmth. In the interests of the Red Poll Cattle' Society of New Zealand Mr. Sanders attended the Royal Counties" Agricultural Show at Southampton at the end of May, and he had the honour of, being, invited by Viscount Folkestone to-, visit Longford^ Castle, Salisbury, to inspect his herd. Mr. -R.--.C. Fullerton-Smith. (Marton) and Mr. John O. v Jameson. (Christchurch) have recently , been elected •Fellow's of the Royal Colonial Institute.. '. . ■■ •■: ..

Mr. and. Mrs. Henry. F. Wigram are • staying with relatives in. Sussex. They • expect to leave : for. New Zealand by -the Remuera in September. i "The Guardian" to-day announces the preferment of the Rev. R. Franklin, ; jU.A., Vicar of Hawera and, Chaplain •[.to the Bish6p;iof v Wellington, tobe i_Rectpr."of .Trotton,. Petersfield, Hants.' The patron of the . Rectory is Mrs. Ashton. : ..:■.., ■ ;._- ■■•■>.

•:Mr. Julian Grande has returned "to Eondon" after his trip to New Zealand, andf he is, staying. at the; Waldorf-i Hotel.' '-Yesterday He .entertained at luncheon Sir'James'-Allen, Mrs. Montgomery,, and Dr., and Mrs. Spahlinger. ';..!.Mr: D. J. Rogers (Palmerston North) arrived in LondoD at the end,of May. He has included Paris and Scotland in his itinerary for the near future, and during October .Mr.; Rogers will leave for South Africa to visit his sister, who lives in Johannesburg. New Zealand should be reached about the end oi January. While he was in. San Francisco he was very greatly impressed .by what is .locally known as "Boys' Week." and he thinks that New Zealand cities might very well copy this American practice with advantage to the youth of the country. During this -period the high offices of administration including that of the Mayor were handed over for one week to boys especially selected from the various schools and Mr. Rogers found the processions very imposing. ■■..■.

Mr. G. A. Simson (Marton) is on ' a pleasure trip which will probably extend to a. year in duration. - He is at present staying with relatives' in •London. In August he will go on to Wales, the North of England and Scotland, and he hopes subsequently to go ■ -on to the-Continent. • . : . r,^ Miller,- a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar at Balliol, has. passed with Honours in- Philosophy, Politics •'.and Economics. ■ • Lady Wavertree organised a Lawntennis, party at her home, Sussex Lodge, Regents Park,' in aid of the -. Invalid Children's . Association. Prin^ .:•, cess;.-.'. Mary Viscountess " Lascelles, • Princess; Alice Countess of Athlone, aiid Lady Patricia Ramsay were present. Many well known players took ■ part m the" contest, including the Hon. - F. M. B. Fisher, and Mile Suzanne < \Lenglen. In addition to: those already mentioned, others present included: King Manoel and Queen Victoria Augusta, Prince and Princess Andrew '; of Greece, the Grand Duke Michael and - Countess Torby, the Duchess of Somer- : set and the Earl of "Lpnsdale. • * In London, on Bth July, the death - occurred of Captain J. B. Le Mottee (late..New Zealand Infantry). He was the only son of the late Colonel and ::.: Mrs; «• B- 'Le Mottee, of-Heasle, East. Yorkshire. -■■■■•' ■ ■-^,%- S- P- M'Callum, New Zealand Knodes Scholar (Special War Scholar- ... ship-holders), has taken a 'First-Class in , the Final Honour. School of Natural .. Science^ at Oxford. His subject at Hertford College has been Physics. Dr. H: Hard wick Smith (Wellington) . was up in London last week" on a brief visit from Langley .Mill, Nottingham, whither he went" with Mrs. Hardwick Smith immediately on reach,ing _ England., . After spending a few ' weeks with relatives they, will come up to London. ... ■ Vice Admiral Sir J. Green has hauled .down his flag at Rosyth,. haying compieted over three years duty there. As'captain of H.M.S. New Zealand at the Battle of Jutland he was awarded the C.B. for the manner in which he tought his ship. His successor at ..., liosyth is Eear-Admiral Sir E. Tyrwhitt who now takes up his third rlag Command since the war. Lord and Lady. Strathspey are eoine out to New Zealand on ■ a visitf ac- ...' compamed by their son and daughter. iiiey will leave London by the Port . . Bowen, on-Bth August, and will stay at Sydney en route. They expect to be away from England for at least a . year. ■ .

Of 134 medical students who presented themselves at the Primary Examination for the Fellowship of' the Royal College of Surgeons, England, in Anatomy and Physiology, 42 were approved and ■92 rejected. Successful New Zealande?s. included : J: Dreadon, M.8., Ch.B., Otago and Middlesex; P. J. Jory, M.B. Ch.B., Otago;-and H. R. Segar, M.B. Ch.B., Otago and Middlesex. .•-.-. ...