LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 15

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, Bth August.

Mr. and Mrs. W, E. A. Gill (Wellington) and their daughters are on a motor tour in Scotland. They will come South via the English Lakes, Cornwall, and Devonshire, intending •. to reach London at the end of August. About the middle of September they will go to Lo Touquet and, on 17th October, tncy will connect with the Orania at Toulon on their way home, expecting to reach Wellington about Ist December, and there to meet the other member of their family, who is a student at "Wanganui Collegiate School. To-day a party of four New Zealauders is leaving London for Ireland on a motor tour that will embrace the chief centres of that country. The party consists of Sir James Parr, Mr. S. G. Raymond, K.C., Mrs. jand ,Miss Itayniond. Sir James expects to be away for a fortnight, and he will make full use of his time studying the farming conditions of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Eayinond have relatives there, and they will probably be away for a month. Lady Parr is at present staying at Henley, but she will leave for Worthing next week. Mr. E. Mowbray and Mr. and, Mrs. H. E. Mowbray (Wellington) think of remaining in England until the end of September, when they will probably leave for the Continent. I Oxford University, in Congregation, has conferred a number of degrees. A New Kealander in the list of Bachelor of Arts is G. H. 0. Wilson (Lincoln College), an old boy of Christ's. He came to Oxford in 1926, and has been, working for Modern "Greats." Prom Cambridge University ' comes the announcement that a Dominion and Colonial Exhibition has been awarded to N. S. Alexander, of Auckland University College. It is also announced from Emmanuel College that J. , W. Harding, B.Sc, of.,"Victoria University College, Wellington, has been elected to an External Research Studentship of £150 for two years. A few days ago St. John's College, ' Cambridge, announced the award of a Strathcona Exhibition to the same student.