LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 42, 19 February 1927, Page 7

LONDON PERSONALS

(Fropi Our Own Correspondent.) ' LONDON, 12th January. • '. On 31st Pecember Mr. J.: G. Denniston left fpr Australia. He has resigned his position in the Colonial Office, and is joining tho staff of St. Peters' College, Adelaide, Mrs. Denniston and I their family will follow in March. l ■; Mr. J. Gc. Myers, D.Sc. (Wellington), has joined' the Imperial Bureau of Entomqjogy,/on whose behalf he has left for Australia to investigate entomological problems of the dried fruit industry for- the Empire 'Marketing.' Board | and thie ■Commonwealth ..Council of Seieitiflc and Industrial Research.' M't Myers expects to be in England again at the end of May to take up parasite work for the bureau.

Mr. H. Selwyu Kenrick, M.8., F.R.C.S.E., recently of the resident staff' of Punedin Hospital, has been appointed resident surgical- offieor at Chelsea Hospital fpr Women. He took'up his position; on Ist January.

"Lieutenant A. j. JJaKer-Cresswell, R.N*,;a^id Mrs. Baker-Cresswell, arrived in England in October,'having travelled via, Vancouver and Npw York; Lieutenant Baker-Cresswell finished his commission in H.M.B. Veronica, and after a month's leave and a month's unemployed time in England, he was appointed to H.M.S.. Pegasus, based at Plymouth, and has since been appointed to H.M.S.-, Saumarez at the same base. He hopes to, remain in tliis ship until tho cud pf March, when he may come to Portsmouth. ..Meanwhile'he and his wife'have taken up their residence at Stoke, .Plymouth, Their future movements are uncertain, but they do not anticipate being able to return to New Zealand for about eighteen, months.

For the past eighteen months Mr, Frederic B. Swan^ton has been connected with an important firm of electrical engineers in the North of England, gain^ ing general experience in the latest.developments of the electrical industry. He left England on Bth, January by the Ofcranto on his way to New Zealand, yia'the East and Sydney. He expects to be in-.the Dominion about the end of February. , ,-'..'.' ". ■ Other passengers who booked for New Zealand viit Australia by the Otranto included Mr. and Mrs. W. Barnes, Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Teniient, Lady Robinson, Mrs.; M. Hardcastle, Mrs. Holmes, Miss S. M. C. Holmes, Mrs. Mulliner, Miss A. J. AkerSj Miss H. E. Akers, Miss I. H. Dashwood, Miss G. E. Mocatta, Miss A..L. Vieary, Miss B. E. Wilson, Mr. R. Ms Wilson,'-Mr. H. Elworthy. Other : well-known people on board the ship include Lord and Lady Belper, Lady Barton, Sir A. Carlyon, the Bight Hon. Lord Castlemaine, Colpnel J. Waley Coheny Major and Mxs. H. de Haviland, Dorothy Countess pf Cranbroqk, the Lady Anne (Jathorner Hardy, the Hon. Anthony GathorneHardy, Sir Neville and Lady Howe, the Hon. J. G. Lathan, Sir W. Peek, and Sir Lawrence and Lady Philipps. Mr. Baymond Murrell (Lake Manapouri) is about to leave for France and Italy. At Genoa he will spend a few weeks with friends, and then he will go to Africa to see other friends. He expects' to be in .Bulgaria until. May. After that he will pass through Turkey. Mr. Murrell will travel home via Port Said, Colombo, and Sydney. Towards the end of last July the headmaster of the County School, Cambridge, wrote to Mr. H. B. J. Saxon, offering him a position in the school, with full charge of a small boardinghouse.. He decided to accept the offer, and left Cranleigh in August to take up his new duties in September, Mr. Saxon also has charge of the seheol Rugby team, which this season has been very successful, losing only two matches out of the seventeen played. He was also privileged to coach the University backs several times before their triumphal defeat of Oxford at Twickenham. Mr. Saxon has been assisting the Cambridge Town Rugby team whenever possible, and on Saturday he had the pleasure of captaining Cambridgeshire v. Norfolk, the Univertiy 1 fifteen winning by about 30 points. In addition to his school duties, Mr. Saxon is finding time to take University lectures on vanouß aspects of English literature. Ifte summer vacatipn was spent with Mrs. Saxon on the coast of Normanby west of Cherbourg. . Mr. C. Morgan Williams (Kaiapoi) wi 1 return to the Dominion by the Tainm on 25th February. He has been on a short visit,. combining business and looking up relatives and friends. At present he is in North Wales. Mr Williams has been making exhaustive inquiries into the prospects of establishing anvexport business with Great Britain an New Zealand pork and bacon Dairy produce, too, is interesting him. Captain Donald Siinspn, hon secretary of tho British Empiro Service League, and formerly of Christchurch, nas been laid up with influenza in its most virulent form. Ho'hopes, however to be able to leave tho nursing homo in the near future and to return to duty at Empiro headquarters 85, Fleet street.