LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1925, Page 14

LONDON PERSONALS

(FROM OUR OWH" CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, 31st December. Sir James Allen spent a few days' prior to Christmas hi the Isle of Wight. He returned in time to-be present at the All Blacks match at Blackheath. Unfortunately, he seems to have contracted a cold there, for the day was one of the worst experienced this winter, and this week he has not been well. Nevertheless,' he has been at the office during part of the day. '■

Brigadier-General A. W. Andrew, ' C.M.G.. has been appointed Dominion I Chief Commissioner for Boy Scouts, and President and Chief Scout. His Excellency Sir Byre Hutson, K.C.M.G., has j been elected to represent the movemeuc in Fiji. Considerable interest will be taken by book-lovers in New Zealand in a' story for boys, called "The Adventures of Peter," which has been written by Captain E. K. G. 11. Evans, 08., D.5.0., R.N., of H.M.S. Broke, H.M.S. Carlisle, and of Antarctic fame.- It is a real seaman's yam, and . "what is j more, my son," it was inspired by a boy. The book is dedicated "To my Richard." '. In the current number of the "Law Quarterly Review," Sir Frederick Pollock pays a tribute to the late Sir John Salmond. His sudden death, he wirtes, "is a grievous loss both- to the learning of the Common Law and to 1 that new and fast-growiug body of constitutional doctrine and .practice which has sprung from the full recognition of the Dominions as partners in the Commonwealth of the British Empire, v Sir. John Sal-.I mond belongs to the emanicapted modern school of English jurisprudence, English in.essentials but emanicpated from the insular bonds of the utilitarian jurists and economists who dominated ■ most of our .nineteenth , century " teachers and many of your Judges." Reviewing Captain Frank Hudson's "Sheaves and Oavelins," the "Western Press"'' (Bristol) says:—"Not often does one, find a volume of verses so delightfully interesting. Mr. Frank Hudson is undoubtedly a poet of an extensive imagination and a facile gift for rhyming. He' is evidently no amateur at his ■work, but a craftsman, a skilled artificer, in verse. . . . There is versa to understand and appreciate which requires a classical training; there are verses which go straight to the heart and which the plain man can readily understand. Of the latter sort are those found in 'Sheaves and Javelins.' " The Liverpool "Courier" decided that the book "gives us a number of interpretations which flow gracefully and "with a truo sense of rhythm." The "Scotsman" says: "Australia, Tasmania, and New i Zealand are the lands whose calls are expressively re-echoed in the vigorous and racy lyrical poems that fill this interesting volume.", "Bevan's Black Horse is the title of a New Zealand story by Captain Hudson, which has been published' in the "Weekly Westminster," and an amusing story, well told, may be'read in "Punch." It is called "Orphans of the Storm." -Friends in the Dominion will be interested to know that he has achieved the distinction of "getting into 'Punch ' " Mr. A. H. Heath (Phillipstown School Chnstchurch) is in London, on. interchange with a London teacher, and at present he is working and; observing under the. London; County, for the period of one year. ' His plans subsequent to that are as yet: indefinite. Mr. ,and Mrsv Heath spent Christmas in the New Forest, ' with headquarters at Brockenhurst. Mrs. .Heath, who for some time felt the effects of a■" very rough voyage to England, is now well recovered.- ; vr •.'.''■■

Mr. Shayle Gardner has returned to London after.his Continental holiday he has been to Sicily, Italy, and France', and now is . commencing rehearsals for the revival, of. Bernard Shaw's ',"Saint jean, which is to be staged at the Regent Theatre in the middle of Janu- J 1 _There are, many military people in Ae\v_ Zealand centres, especially in'the training depots.of the New Zealand Engineers, who will be interested to have late news regarding Brigadier-General A. E Panet, C.8., C.M.G., D.5.0., who i-has this week gone on the retired list iingadier-General Panet was Chief Engineer, 2nd New Zealand and Austr f a, Van rlsy^Col'Ps in France, and later of the 22nd Corps. He has been serving on the staff of'the Northern Army .m India . under General Sir William Birdwood, and has had a long career in the East, beginning with the early operations in Waziristan. This officer is .a graduate of the Royal Military College, Kingston, Canada, as were two ?i Ir -/S+??? 1'" officers > w "o served with t*«N.ZE.F namely, Major-General A. U de L. Jolly de Lotbiniere, CB B^dlo. 311' LieUt--C°lonel H- iMajor A E. W. Salt, of the Army Educational Corps, who served in the JVZ.E.F and who, for the last two years and a half,.has been education officer of the Northern Command (lately. under General Sir Charles Harington) has recently successfully completed a three months' course at the Senior Officers' School," at Sheerness, for promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel Mrs. Salt was formerly Miss Ellis, of Chnstchurch, and her marriage to Major Salt look place while both were serving in the N.Z.E.F.

Commander A. A. Lovett-Cameron, who has been appointed to succeed Commander Reginald Henniker-Heaton in charge of the Naval.lntelligence Division at the Admiralty, last" served as executive officer of the torpedo school ship Defiance, at Devonport. At the outbreak of war he was torpedo • officer of 11.M.5. New 1 Zealand. He wqs promoted commander in 1916, and was appointed to the Board of Invention and Research, and afterwards to the Torpedoes and Miuing Department. The Naval Intelligence Department is generally known as the Press Section. All newspaper representatives have found Commander Henniker-Heaton' of great help,, for he has always been ready to follow up their inquiries and give all possible information, and there is no reason to suppose that there will be any variation from this rule with Commander Lovett-Cameron in his stead Mr. P. \V. Stack, ■ F.C.I.S. (Sydney); accompanied by Mrs. Strack, has arrived in London, via Naples. En route the* travellers renewed acquaintance with Rome, and af.ter staying on Lake Maggiore, at Lausanne and in Paris, they came on to London, this being their fifth visit in twenty-seven years.' Mrs. Strack is a'native of Christchurch, and her husband was for some years in the service of the Bank of New Zealand in various parts oE the Dominion, until, in 1923, after ten years in the Commonwealth Bank, he formed. the Primary Producers Bank of Australia, and by August, 1924, he:' hai travelled 30,000 miles in the various States and established sixty-five branches. A branch has now been established in London. Mr. and Mrs. Strack expect to travel back by way of New York, Canada, Japan, and China, and probably they will include New Zealand. One is reminded that Mrs. Strack is greatly interested in art, having worked in the National Gallery in London for some time, while she was one of the first to advocate, in Wellington, the need for an art gallery for the capital city. Two New Zeolnuderß at Oxford have hud conferred upon them the degree of

M.A m the Sheldonian Theatre, namey, Messrs. A. B. Taylor (Merton ColpPl , a, nd I" P- do L- Wffliß (Christ au N-J.E.F. Scholarship (he was Private No. 3/1201, N.Z.M.C.) at the time w ins enlistment he had gained the first section of his B.A. degree. He is the a°"i? ? Ir* A- Taylor (Morningsidc, Auckland). The latter is the.son of the Yen. Archdeacon Willis, of Christ- [ church. He is an old boy of Christ's College graduated with first-class honours m history-in New Zealand in 1915, was wounded in the war, and was alr° j rto study at Chlist Church, Oxiord^ f or his degree. He became B.A. m- December, 1921. Surgeon-Commander T. C. Patterson, K.N., has been posted to H.M.S. President for three months' post-graduate course. Dr. Patterson belongs to Dannevirke. n Captain p. B. N. North, C.5.1., C-M-G.,C.Y.0., has been posted to j "'f• "resident for special service, to date from Ist January. i _