LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 15

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, November 11. Mr. and Mrs. M. Maurice Smith leave by the Tamaroa on December 29 for a short holiday in New Zealand. They plan to stay there for some two months before returning via the United States to England in time for the Coronation. Prior to his tour, Mr. Smith will be farewelled by Waitaki Old Boys in London at dinner, when a welcome will also be extended to Lieut.Colonel E. Puttick. Mr. Smith is honorary secretary and treasurer to the New Zealand Society in London. Dr. L. I. Parton (Wellington) has been successful in passing his primary F.R.C.S. (London), and has been appointed Assistant-Medical Officer at the Great West Railway's Hospital at Swindon. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Hurst (Wellington) return to New Zealand shortly and will leave London at the end of November. They have recently returned from Germany, where they visited many of the principal towns of the Rhineland. Prior to their trip to the Continent Mr. and Mrs. Hurst enjoyed a lengthy tour of the north and west of England. This included Yorkshire, Edinburgh, the Lake District, and South Wales. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Rendell (Timaru) and their two daughters will be returning to New Zealand by the Remuera, which is due at Wellington on January 16. During his stay in England Mr." Rendall has been studying the latest horticultural methods and modern landscape gardening. He has also taken a prominent part in laying out the gardens at the London Film Productions Studios, at Denham. Mrs. M. M. V. Pycroft (Auckland) has been awarded the Grenfell Gold Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for an exhibit of water colour paintings of New Zealand flora. The Grenfell medal was struck in 1919 in memory of Field-Marshal Lord Grenfell, who was for some years president of the Royal Horticultural Society. TJjis is the first occasion upon which the medal has been won by a New Zealander. Mrs. Pycroft is the wife of Mr. A. T. Pycroft, vice-president of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Plums cooked in a thin covering of dough are a popular dish in Czechoslovakia, and competitions are held as to who can eat most. The record goes to a man who swallowed i 23.