LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 15

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, May 13. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard C. Blundell ;Wellington) left the Oronsay at Ville'ranche, and travelled overland to Paris, where they stayed for seven lays. 'During the Riviera stage of heir journey they visited Monte Carlo. 'Vfter a very enjoyable overland tour through France they continued the d journey to Croydon from Le Bour- a set by an Imperial Airways machmc. Mr. and Mrs. Blundell arrived a lew days ago and are now planning _ programme of their stay in the United 1: Kingdom. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Aitcheson (Hast- ij ings) are at present making a compre- t hensive tour of Devonshire, Cornwall, v and Wales. They have a car, and they r are malting the journey at their own j leisure. After this they will tour in \ the North of England, and they expect r it will be about twelve months before c they are ready to return to New Zea- j land. They hope to see something of the Continent c At the recent Primary examination i for the Fellowship of the Royal Col- c lege of Surgeons, the following New i Zealanders were successful in Anatomy i and Physiology:—J. R. Dawson, M.8., 1 8.5., and W. N. Searle, M.B. Ch.B. : . Mr. Ulick Campbell (Christchurch) 1 has returned from West Africa, where j he has spent the last six years. _He is ] at present suffering from malaria and i the after effects of blackwater fever, j and he expects.to remain in London at j least for four months for treatment. It is ten years since Mr. Campbell left the Dominion. Mr. Bruce B. Whiteman (Christ- < church) came to London as a cadet in the Middlesex, and stayed at the home of his guardian until his first term on the Worcester again. The Worcester is off Greenhithe, Kent. He expects : to be returning to New Zealand in 1938 after serving his time in the Wor- : cester, when he will be apprenticed to the New Zealand Shipping Company for two years. The engagement is announced between Joseph Blundell, only son of the late Mr. A. B. Johnson-Houghton and Mrs. G. C. Sanderson, of Madeira, and Margaret Isobel, the younger daughter of the late Mr. F. B. Lowes and Mrs. Lowes, of Wairangi, Eketahuna. Miss Lowes recently had a very enjoyable trip to Portugal, accompanied by Miss Hegarty (Gisborne). Unfortunately, the riots in Spain prevented their visiting that country. They took a Dutch ship down to Gibraltar, where they stayed for ten days and found the "Rock" most fascinating, the gardens at this time of the year being very lovely. Miss G. J. Batchelor (Christchurch) spent the greater part of April in the north of England and Scotland, going as far north as Inverness. The latter part of a holiday was spent in Warwickshire with friends. Dr. Mary Champtaloup (New Plyr mouth) has been on a short visit to Holland and Denmark in pursuit of medical study. She was joined in Holland with Miss Yvonne Champtaloup. Together they are now planning a month's motor tour embracing various places in England, Wales, and possibly Scotland. They hope to be back in London for the principal events of June. Mrs. E. C. Cossar and lier daughter (Riccarton) have taken a comfortable flat in south-west London, and they are now enjoying the theatres, particularly the presentations of Shakespearean plays. They will presently leave for Northern Ireland to visit Mr. Cossar's relatives. In all likelihood it will be a year before they return to New Zealand. Mrs. R. Barclay (Christchurch) has returned from Devon and Cornwall, where she had a very enjoyable tour, and this week she left for Scotland, via the English Lakes. Later, Mrs. Barclay will cross to Paris. Mrs. Murray Fuller (Wellington) is leaving this week by the Mataroa, taking with her a collection of pictures and statuary in connection with the Art Exhibition which will inaugurate the new National Gallery at Wellington. The commission was entrusted to her by the New Zealand National Gallery Board, of which the Dominion Prime Minister is president. Mrs. Fuller is greatly indebted to Sir William Llewellyn (president of the Royal Academy), Sir H. H. Stanton (president of the Royal Water-colour Society), and Sir W. R. Dick (president of the Royal Sculpture Society) for the valuable assistance which they have accorded to her. The artists chiefly represented in the collection are Sir William Reid Dick, R.A., Sir George Clausen, R.A., Glynn Philpot, R.A., P. Wilson Steer, 0.M., Arnesby Brown, R.A., W. G. de Glenn, R.A., Frank Brangwyn, R.A., Sir Charles Holmes, Sir D. Y. Cameron, R.A„ Sir Herbert Hughes Stanton, W. Russell Flint, R.A., Philip Connard, R.A., Harold Knight, A.R.A., Dame Laura Knight, R.A., and Ethel Walker.