LONDON NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 13

LONDON NOTES

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 15th April. Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Knapp (Nelson) reached England about the end ot March, and have since been staying with relatives in. Hampshire, visiting many of the historic and other interesting centres in tho locality.1 They have come to London, and this will be their headquarters during their'five months stay in England, Mr. and Mrs. Knapp will speiid a short time in, Franis6 ( mainly with the object of visiting their son's grave near Messines. Thoy will see as much as possible of South-West England, the Midlands, and Scotland, and their return journey to New Zealand will be via Canada and the Pacific. Mijs Mabel Couingham (Wellington) has returned to London from Paris. She went' to France shortly after her arrival, and will return to. the Continent after spending Easter in England. She expects to be back in New Zealand about the end of the year. Miss Coninghain has come mainly to visit relatives, and to see as much as she can in the. time available, but she has not laid out a definite programme. Mr. Herbert and the Countess of Seafield have left for the Continent to join tho Dowager Countess of Seafield, who is on her way back from Central Africa. , •. It may bo of interest to New Zealandcrs to know that Parnham House, Beaminstcr, the beautiful country estate of ■ tho late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Moorhouse, has now become a leading country club. Tho late Mrs. Moorhouse made tho property over to her grandson and heir, Mr. AVilliam Henry Rhodcs-Moor-honsc, five years ago, but the estate being of tremendous extent, it was decided to sell it. * At Parnham, which is described as "England's most beautiful country club/ there will bo an important air rally early in. May. The estate has its own golf course.. Professor J. Macmillan Brown (Christchurch) will be spending Easter in Devonshire. He is a recent arrival iv London, and had -the bad luck to be laid up for a few days with a chill, which necessitated as much rest as possible. After Easter he will set out on a motor-car tour with his daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Moss and Miss Moss (Wairarapa) have been visiting relatives in Birmingham and Warwickshire, but Mr. Moss is now back in London attending to his work as a director of tho New Zealand Marketing Association. "There is no doubt," said Mr. Moss, "that Now Zealand butter is up against serious competition from countries that are doing everything that is possible to produce a first-class articlo for the English consumer. I sampled some fodder butter, the first of the season's to hand. Some were in casks and others in oblong boxes. There was evidence of caro in the make and get-up of packages of butter. They mean evidently to put a first-class articlo on the British market. The same applies to Latvia, Ukrania, and others of . these States that are taking advantage of the British market." ...