LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 104, 29 October 1932, Page 8

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The ;Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 22nd September.

Rear-Admiral Geoffrey Blake, C.8., D.5.0.,. has this week taken up the post of Fourth Sea Lord of the Admiralty and Chief of Supplies and Transport. He has succeeded Vice-Admiral Lionel G. Preston, C.8., who, in January, will become Commandant of the Imperial Defeneo College. "The Times "I mentions that Rear-Admiral Blake will be the youngest member of the Admiralty Board, aged 50; he has spent thirty-five years in the Navy. ;

Miss Barbara V. Coventry (Wellington) is staying with her brother, Mr. F. H. Coventry, who is becoming very well known as an etcher, his work being of a high order. -Miss Coventry anticipates remaining for a year at any rate, and she has secured a secretarial post in London.

It is announced that Lady Arthur Grosvenor has left England for a three months' visit to New Zealand.

Miss E. M. Pope, M.A. (late of Wellington Girls' College), a- graduate of Victoria University College, has passed with- credit, at the University of Poitiers, the examinations qualifying for (a) Certificat d'Etudes francaises, and (b) Certificat d'aptitude a I'enscignement en Francais a l'etranger. At Victoria University College Miss Pope studied Trench under Professor Bovd-Wilson.

Miss M. Dennehy (Wellington) 'will continue her post-graduate studies at the Kowett Institute, Aberdeen. Her parents intend to spend some time in Scotland. Arriving in England about two years ago, Miss Dennehy (M.Sc. University of New Zealand) went to Somervillc College, Oxford, to work for her Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry.

Yesterday the New Zealand Shipping Company and Messrs. J. B. "Westray entertained a number of business men to luncheon on board the Hangitiiki. Mr. A. D. Park (Secretary to the Treasury) and Mr.' I*. Aiekm (Private Secretary to Mr. "W. Downie Stewart) were also among the visitors. The party -were taken down the river in one of the new Thames taxis which move at 20 miles an hour, and the river was seen in one of its typical conditions —overshadowed with fog. Mr. Park and Mr. Aickin were interested to look over the replica of the suite which the Ministerial party will occupy when they return by the Rangitata on 25th October.