LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1927, Page 14

LONDON PERSONALS

NEW ZEALANDERS ABROAD

(From Our Own Correspondent) . . LONDON, 30th. December. ' Sir.Thomas Mackenzie, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. A. V. M'Donald will leave for New Zealand on 20th January by the Tamaroa.

Mr. 0. M. Pocfcen, B.Sc. (Melb.) D Phil(Oxon), the newly-appointed lecturer m Physics at. Otago University, is on a holiday in Switzerland, and will I have only one week in England before leaving for New. Zealand. He has booked his passage by the-Canard liner Ascama, leaving Southampton on 20th January, and travelling via New York Toronto, and: Vancouver, he will connect at the latter port with the Tahiti on 9th February, arriving in Auckland at the end of that month. ' Mr. Focken expects to be in Dunedin by the first week of March. This will be his first acquaintance with New Zealand as he has never visited the Dominion He was educated at Melbourne, and knows most of the Australian capitals Mr. Albert J. Batehelor, late secretary of the Australian Board of Missions in Western Australia, and formerly of the New Guinea Mission, has been' ■appointed organising secretary of the Missionary Exhibits Department of the S.P.G. He has lately returned to England from New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Canada, and the United States. Sir James Mills has disposed of the lease of his London house, 60, Princes Gate, South Kensington. He is going abroad to avoid the winter..

_ Becent callers at the High Commissioner's Office have included Mrs. J. Hanron (Nelson), Mrs. Keith Macleod (Christchurch), Dr. Theodore G. Gray (Mental Hospital Department), Mr. and Mrs. A. Todd (Oamaru), ana Mr. E Todd, Mr. A. V. MildenhaU (Johnsonvillo) and Mrs. Mildenhall, Miss Annette Barton. (Featherston), Lieutenant and Mrs. A.- J. ■ Baker-Cresswell (Auckland), Mr. 0?. T. Caccia Birch (Palmerston North), Dr. Derek Denny Brown (New Plymouth), Miss Eileen Gane (Cambridge),--Miss Lucy Heney (Bangiora), and Mr. W. J. Heney, Mt. ana Mrs. Lan Batkin (Wellington), Mr. ancl Mrs. E. Firth, and Miss Edna Firth (Christchurch), Mr. and Mrs. W. A. -Midlane and Misg Joyce Midlane (Wellington), Mrs. G. S.. Sale (Duneain), Mr. and Mrs. H. Hardcastle (BotoTua), Mr. Edwin- Matthews (Gisborne), Miss I. Oliver (Timaru), Miss E. M. Warden, Mrs. L. Newton (Auckland), Miss A. Davies (Dunedin), Mrs. and. Miss Griffin, Miss Aileen Knight (Ghristehurch.),- Dr. ana Mrs. J. G. Myers (Wellington), Mrs. J. Dyke Acland ana Miss Dyke Acland, Mr. H. T. Kent (Hamilton), Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Wray (Wellington), Miss B. M. Weston, Mrs. and Miss Nctt (Auckland), Captain ana Mrs. M. Irvine, Miss S. Wilton (Wellington), Brigadier-Gener-al G. W. G. Braithwaite, Mrs. M. Blythe (Wellington), Miss J. M. Show (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. C. Denny Brown (New Plymouth), Major and Mrs. C. H. Meaa (Wellington), Dr. G. ■ W. Coates (Ashburton), Mr. ana Mrs. ! C. H. E. Graham (Tai Tapu), Mr. H W. Morris (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. Martin Walsh (Aucklana), Miss C Emmerson (Dunedin), Mrs. L. E. Bowlatt (Auckland), Mrs. E. Newlands j Fletcher (Wellington), Major and Mrs. Hunter 7 Blair (Christchurch), Miss Ceeilia O'Borke (Ohristchurch) Colonel and Mrs. D'Arcy Chaytor (Blenheim), Mrs. Mitford-Burgess (Martinborough), Miss Helena Humphreys (Auckland), Mr* John Munro (Timaru) Major-General the Hon. Sir Newton Moore, Miss Kathleen Welch (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. Oscar BeUrineer (Christchurch), Mr. H. W. E. Parsons (Opawa), Mrs. B. Wood (Palmerston [ North), Miss M. G. Allen (Wanganui) Mr. F. Jeans (Auckland), Mr. J. B. Thompson (Dunedin), Mr. A. M. Bobertson (Wellington), Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Araiey (Christchurch), Mrs. L. D Liinbrick (Hawkes Bay), Miss Cecil Hall (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. A. Fletcher, Miss H. Fletcher, and Miss H. Taylor (Wellington), Mr. E. C Maynara (Christchurch), Mr. S. G. Chaplin : (Hastings), Mrs. Holrovd Beere ana Misses E. ana J. Beere (Wellington), Bear-Aamiral ana Mrs. A. F. Beal,'Mr. and Mrs. I. Grant Taylor, Mrs. B. Williams (Christchurch), Mr! ana Mrs. N. Barclay (Dunedin), Mr T. T. Bollons (Wellington), Mr. W X Cook (Auckland). Lord and Lady Cranbrook, wh6 were married a few weeks ago at St. George's, Hanover Square, have arrived at Great Weuiham House, Saxmundham, after their honeymoon. On the occasion of their home coming they were presented by the people of the district with a sil-1 1 BL S tF ? n£ a, mor°cco photograph tame Lord Cranbrook (nephew of Lady Rrirf T ersn S(? n) "lalried his cousin, Miss Bridget DOyly Carte, daughter of Mr. Rupert and Lady Dorothy DOyly Carte J',. 13 announced that Mr. Charles m! 7n "?' ?4 C- (Melbourne), D. Phil (Oxon), of Lincoln College, Oxford, has pw ! -al>Pwf ed T-t<? the Lect«resl"P in Physics at the liniversity of Otago He wil^ r" gla^ in Ja"uary t0 e«P fronr^o^-fo^S a EhOdeS S°holar Inwl I F"i W" Dciid"e> Previously of Auckai "°T a direc'°r of the Beaverbiook Press, has recently taken over the position .of assistant general manager and chrwtor of advertising on "The Evening ' Standard-one of the Beaverbroog group and a popular London evening journal. Two other New Zealandere havl also become associated with "The Evening Standard." Mr. David Low, the famous cartoonist has signed a contract with the journal at a figure which probably constitutes a world's record for the engagement of a political cartoonist The salary paid is more than double that of the Prime Minister of the Dominion Mr Jj f ml rr ? amSj°,,'London t0 lje cartoonist of The Star," a position which he has held for some years past. The "Standard has also secured for publication early m the New Year a new novel by Miss Bosemary Bees, the well-known New Zealand writer. Mr. T. F Bollons (Wellington) is a recent arrival who has come to gain experience of. marine propulsion, chiefly . m Diesel engines, and' he expects to be in England for about seven or eight months.