LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 28

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" "Representative.)

LONDON, April 13. Captain V.. A: Cazalet, MiC.,-.-M.P., has been«appointed to represent New Zealand on' the Council :of the Lawn Tennis Association. Captain' Cazalet obtained his Oxford Blue for tennis, lawn tennis, and. racquets., For. ,the years 1925-27-29-30 he ' was amateur squash champion.,. ~ Captain Cazalet has travelled extensively in Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Far East, -and he is well known as a writer of articles on travel and {politics. During a recent speech in Edinburgh, Sir Granville Bantock, ,'' Mus.Doci, F.R.C.M.,. mentioned. Jhat hehoped to visit New Zealand next year, as examiner of Trinity College of Music, London, of which.he is chairman. For a number of years Sir. Granville was a Professor of Music .at. Birmingham University-, and Director; of the School of Music in the same city.* He is a well-known composer of orchestral music. ■. . ■;■■ ' ■ ~.-, .-.>-. , Dr. H..BayldonEwen; (Wellington) lias come to England .to undertake post-graduate study,'at the various hospitals and medical; schools!V Just now ne is attached to the^ British PostGraduate College at Ducane Road, Shepherd's Bush,-and he is .also studying, diabetes \with Dr; Lawrence at King's College^ Hospital; •: Denmark Hill, ■ ■ ■'■. ■■ :•' ■■' - * ...' . i Mr. Juliair Grande has. spent the winter in >India;': where; hie ■" was commissioned to -write a book on "India's Princes and Peoples."•'. He has lectured a good deal oh travel since 'he returned from China and Japan' a year ago, where he was the first to cover the military' activities of the Chinese Army during the Manchurian War. ' ' Mr. R; L. Gillies,' Superintendent Engineer of the U.5.5.,,C0., w.as: present at;the launch of the new P. and O. liner Strathmore. The U.S.S. Co. is about to call lor tenders lor a new combined fruit and passenger^carryihg vessel for the Island,trade. Mr. Gillies will'bV present at the dinner of the Institute of Naval Architects and he hopes to see, something of the Silver Jubilee functibns.. Captain C. S. Thomson, R.N., until recently Second Naval Member of the New Zealand Naval. Board, was pre-< sent at the launch of the Strathmore. His own new ship, H.M.S. Ajax, has been completed at the Naval Construction Works of Messrs. Vickers-Arm-strongs, at ,Barrow-in-Furness. Captain Thomson is a New, Zealander by birth; his. parents having" lived at Geraldine. Mr. G. S. Cox (Dunedin), Rhodes Scholar, is shortly to take :up a temporary position on the "News-Chron-icle" staff. _ i Mr! Aubrey H. W. Williams, M.A., lately on the staff of McGlashan College, Dunedin, has received an appointment as master in Modern Languages at Filcpates School, a Congregational establishment in Yorkshire. .He will take up his position in - September. ■ Mr. H. O.'Houchen (formerly of Auckland) has been appointed airline superintendent' of.'Airwqr'k, Limited, "whp own and control the'-airports; of Heston,' Manchester, Bristol, and' Newtonwards, near Belfast. Mr. R. E. H. Baily has been appointed secretary of the Royal Empire Society. Mr. Baily. served in the Sudan Political Service for 23 years, and ;was Governor, ~;0f:. the ~Kassala Province from 1926 to. 1932. r .lri his earlier days Mr. Baily captained 'the Harrow cricket XI, and was 'also a member of the Cambridge cricket XI. Councillor John Roberts, of Wellwood, Selkirk, a son of the ,late Sir John Roberts, of Dunedin, has been elected Prpypst. of Sekirk in succession to the late .Prpyost Ballantyne. He is the •fourth''member of his family to v occupy, the civic chair of Selkirk within.the past 70 years. He takes

a great interest in all Institutions lor the welfare of Selkirk, and is '-very popular.. He is a member of- the Buccleuch Hunt, and one of the prominent members at the annual Riding of the Marches ceremony. Two of his sons, Stewart M.; Roberts and George E. Roberts, are well-known •Rugby players. - • ' •

Flying-Officer C. L. Monckton (Waipukurau) and Mr..-G.vß,^ Isjierwood (Blenheim) have arrived In England after having served- for • five' • years abroad with the Royal Air Force. At the expiration of "their" leave' they expect to be posted to ;a ; squadron1 in England. Meanwhile they have planned a motoring holiday; in;• the' Mother Country. . ■ ■'■■■^^ '