LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1931, Page 13

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 23rd July.

Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Barnett (Wellington) have been on the Continent. Their tour has included France, Monte Carlo, Italy, Switzerland, and Frankfurt. At the latter city they were for a week the guests of the American Consul-General. They were interested to see New 'Zealand apples on sale in Germany. '

Miss Elizabeth M. Uniacke (Stratford) is about to leave Oxford for a motor tour of Scotland. This summer she is going through Belgium, Luxembourg, via the Moselle Valley from Treves to,. Coblenz. • Miss Uniacke has joined the Jugendherhergen, and is going hiking in Germany. Then she will go down the Rhino by boat.

Mrs. F. R. Cooper and' Miss Ngaire Cooper (Lower Hutt) have left London for a motor tour of England and Scotland. On 7th November they will take their departure for New York, with the intention of spending a month or five weeks in the United States prior to joining the mail liner at Vancouver for Auckland.

New Zealanders who have been elected niembersof the Royal Empire Society include:—Mr. W. E. Fussell and Mr. B. R. Stock (Wellington), and Mrs. B. M. Drawbridge (Te Awamutu).

Mr. and Mrs. S. L. P. Free (Masterton) reached London from Holland a few days ago. They have been travelling on the Continent for some weeks, visiting, places of .interest in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. They are paying a round of visits in England prior to crossing to' Dublin for the Horse Show. Return passages have been booked by the Rangitiki, leaving in August.

Miss Margaret A. M'.Nair (Wellington) has taken Class 111. in the Final HonourE School of English Language and Literature. Her name appears" in the list of passes published to-day from Oxford University. Miss M'Nair has been studying at St. Hugh's College, which Bhe entered at the end of 1928. She was formerly a pupil at Wellington Diocesan School andtChilton House School.

Mr. and Mrs. E. J; Fannin (Palinerston North) are on a three months' holiday trip to England, visiting relatives and friends. In September they will move on to Ireland, thence travel in Scotland, and return via the East Coast to the Southern Counties.

Professor T. A. Hunter and Professor J. Eight accompanied the High Commissioner for New Zealand to the House of Commons. There Sir Thomas introduced them to the leaders of the three political parties, with whom they had very interesting conversations.

Mr. ana Mrs. B. A. Miller (Nelson)

and Miss Miller have been ■ touring in tho Midlands and in Scotland, and now, after going to South Devon, they will move on to Anglesey, where they will stay with Madame Rosina Buckman, who is Mrs. Miller's niece. On 14th August the New Zealanders will leave the Mother Country on their way. home. They have had a very pleasant stay, having arrived.in London in April. .

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Cohen (Palm-erstou-North) have had a most interesting and wonderful Continental tour extending over 18 months. • They have been moving leisurely from centre to centre, enjoying music, picture galleries, and the special features of life characteristic of'the different cities ■"isitcd. They included the Paris Exhibition on their way back to London, and speak in terms of the highest praise of the wonderful effects achieved at night by the illuminations. Later on in the year Mr. and Mrs. Cohen will go to America, and will stay in California for a time with relatives.

Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Wilson (Wanganui), accompanied by Miss Betty Wilson; spent two months in London, and are now in Scotland after having a motor tour to the Eastern Counties. Starting from Glasgow, they will make a tour of Scotland and then on via the Lake District and Wales to the South of England. London should, be reached in September, and then at the end of that month the travellers will leave for the Continent, and will join the Orama at Naples on Ist November on their way home.

Sir Thomas Wilford was guest at dinner of the National Union, of Seamen, whose honorary secretary, Mr; Spehce, is a member of the Flock .House Committee in London. The High Commissioner mentioned that in the period of seven years 620 boys had gone out to Flock House, and that only seven of these returned here as failures—a very minute' percentage. There were still a full complement at Flock House undergoing their training, but the valuation of the possessions of those who had passed out and made good was £45,000. This sum was made up of personal assets, cash savings, life insurance payments, equipment, etc. He read extracts from a number of letters writ: ten by the boys to their mothers in England. In one case four brothers had gone out under the scheme, and they were eagerly anticipating-the arrival of still another brother. All the writers were happy, and gave a very good account of themselves, their surroundings, and their prospects.