LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 19

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) : LONDON, May 11.

Dr. Douglas Anderson (Christchurch) has been appointed to the position of Clinical' Assistant at the Hospital for Women, Soho, London, and he is studying diseases of childhood at the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, and at University College Hospital, Gower Street. At the latter institution he has been asked to be a guest as an old student. Mrs. Anderson is at present staying in Co. Down, visiting her mother, and she will return to London with her two sons in the middle of this month.

Mr..and Mrs. W. Waddel (Wellington), their daughter, Mrs. C. A. Martin, and their son, Mr. G. W. Waddel, are travelling together. At the conclusion of the London season, they will travel through the country districts of England and Scotland by motorcar.

'■ Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Z. Luke (Wellington) are expecting to remain for some months in the Mother Country. After a holiday tour in London, Devonshire, and Cornwall, Dr. Luke will take a course of post-graduate surgical study.

Mr. Alex. Derbie (General Manager of the Southland Frozen Meat Company) recently reached London on a business visit, accompanied by Mrs. Derbie. This week he was the guest of honour at a complimentary luncheon given by Messrs. Macpherson, Train, and Co., Ltd., at the Connaught Rooms. Among those present were Mr. D. F. Reid (Bank of New Zealand), Mr. Graham Michie, Mr. White (Messrs. Michie and White), Mr. Scarman (Messrs. Harris, Marrian, an<J Co.), Mr. Field, and Mr. Kittle (of the Blackfriars Cold Storage Co., Ltd.), and Mr. R. S. Forsyth, C.M.G. (London Manager of the New Zealand Meat Board).

Miss E. Faulkner (Havelock North) is hoping to stay in England until January, arid then to visit friends in Sydney on her way back to New Zealand. Miss Faulkner has been spending a month at Bridgwater, Somerset, with her aunt, Mrs. Pryce-Michell, but she is now in London. In June she will go to Bournemouth, and later to Devonshire. \ ■ •

Miss A. Goldie (Auckland) and Miss N. E. Holloway (Epsom) have planned to travel, extensively through England, Scotland, and Ireland. They will be in London for Christmas, and in April next they think of leaving the Continent for Ceylon, China, and Japan, en route to Australia, and New Zealand. They are .spending this month in London to attend the functions of the season* "'• ' ". '*■■■■ ,'".■/■■ : .

Miss Mildred /Burdon <Woodbury) joined the-Strathaird at Melbourne, and left her: atvMarseilles to make a tour .via .Paris", to Brussels'and, Rotterdam. She toured through Holland at the tune" the-flower fields were at the zenith of their beauty, andshe attended .the floral Exhibition at Haarlem, which takes place only once in ten years.. Full opportunity was taken while in Holland to see many of the Old Masters.' Crossing from The Hook to Harwich she landed in tune to See the Silver? Jubilee procession and the floodlighting. She hopes to stay in England until November.';'.

Miss Lynley; M. Jackson (Christchurch) is about to set out on a walking tour in JWales. In June she will bein-London;; tot attend the outstanding functions';of the season. In July she hopeS to "visit relatives in Essex arid friends in North Devon/Germany and sAustria- wip?be«^oured* Jater? Mr. and Mrs. W. Oliver. '(Wangantuf have spent six weeks in Cornwall with the parents of the former, and they have left their children there during the five weeks they will be in London. Mr. Oliver-is finding the shops and stores intensely interesting, and almost bewildering because of their size, but he has come to the conclusion^ that outside the departmental establishments the shops generally, are very little ahead of New Zealand. He and his wife cannot speak too highly of the welcome which they received at the . High Commissioner's Office where'the wonderfully helpful service was extended to all visitors from the Dominion. New Zealanders will be well advised to make use of the facilities available. On July 25 Mr. and Mrs. Oliver will leave by the Rangitata on their way home.

A marriage has been arranged and will shortly take place between Geoffrey E. Myers, son of the late Captain Le« M. Myers, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, and Mrs. Myers, Auckland, and 101 Mount. Street, Mayfair to Sybil Rumford, of 35 Garden Place Brooklyn, New York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Rumford

On April 23, :at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, the marriage was solemnised between Alistair only son of Lauchlan Campbell, of Mose---1?^ Birmingham, and the late Mrs. CampbeH, and) Kathleen Le Pelley elder daughter of-Dr. and Mrs. G.-.J. Blackmore, 'late of Christchurch. The ceremony;, was performed by the Rev F. A. Cockin, vicar of the parish.