LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1937, Page 11

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) ' LONDON, December 30.

Mr. W. Nash, Minister of Finance and Marketing, is to attend the next meeting of the Council of the League of Nations on January 16, and to broadcast to New Zealand from Geneva. He will represent the Dominion as second delegate with Mr. W. J. Jordan, providing the High Commissioner is able to leave London at that time. In the event of Mr. Jordan being unable to visit Geneva, Mr. Nash will represent the Dominion. Mr. Jordan spent Christmas at his home, "Manulcau," Wimbledon. Mr. Nash visited friends in Liverpool.

Mr. A. J. Ockleston, B.E. (N.Z.), Michael Hiatt Baker Scholar at Bristol University, has qualified lor the Ph.D. degree in engineering. This morning a long list of promotions and appointments to the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem has been made known. Among Commanders appears the name of Mr. Bernard Edward Howard Tripp, C.B.E. Mr. J. Malton Murray has been visiting Leeds. During his stay there the Yorkshire Dialect Society presented him with four gramophone records of Yorkshire dialects representing Baildon (West Riding), Cowling (West Riding), Driffield (East Riding), and Staithes (North Riding). Mr. Murray will take the records with him when he returns to New Zealand. Mr. Murray is secretary of the New Zealand Yorkshire Society.