LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 147, 23 June 1937, Page 16

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, May 26.

Miss Rhoda A. Ward (of the staff of Wellington East Girls' College), accompanied by Miss Kathleen Henderson (Blenheim), arrived in London after a five weeks' tour of the Continent, including Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France. Both were greatly impressed with Italy, where the people appear to be very industrious and happy. They found the German people, especially in Munich and Berlin, most friendly and anxious to show their good will. Holland was seen during tulip time. Miss Ward and Miss Henderson saw the Coronation procession from splendid- seats in Parliament Square. At. present they are in the north at West Hartlepool. A tour will be made of the English Lake District. Miss Norah G. Gleeson (Wellington and Auckland) will be in London until the end of June sightseeing- and attending fixtures made for Coronation visitors. After that she will travel generally through England. Mrs. E. S. Hodgens (Wellington) is staying in London for a few weeks. Later, with her friend, Miss A. E. Hansen, they will tour in the North of England, Scotland, and Ireland. . Miss Elgean I. Hill (Wellington) intends making .-a tour through the Highlands in June and to be in Oxford for some time during July. She has been a visitor this week to the Assembly of the Church o£ Scotland, in Edinburgh, and has attended many very enjoyable functions .in connection with it. ,■..-. Mrs. H. C. Pringle (Wellington) will remain in London for the next month, and then leave for a tour of the North of ■ England and Scotland. She is thinking of spending 'the winter at Menton, in the South of France. : Miss Isabel Leonard "(Wellington and Christchurch), after seeing the Derby, left' for Denmark on a walking tour. After ten days she will return to England, and in the middle of July she will leave for the Rhone, Vienna, Budapest, Paris, Brussels, Switzerland, and the Austrian Tyrol. Shortly after her arrival at the beginning of April, Miss Leonard made a' walking tour of Cornwall, visiting the chief centres on the coast. She has also been staying, with relatives iri Bristol. " Mr. and Mrs. R. Talbot Richards '(nee Miss M. Lennie, of Wellington), who live in Glasgow, .are. hoping to pay. New Zealand another visit in the not-far-off future. Mr. Richards was charmed -with the New Zealand scenery when, he was there in 1935 and1 he wishes to explore it further. They are spending the summer at a house on Loch Lomond, where fishing is of interest to them both. Good salmon and brown trout are to be had. Mr. and Mrs. Richards went to New York in December, where they spent six weeks and had a very gay Christmas. In October they will go to Cyprus to stay with Mr. Richards's parents, who have a yacht there. Their trip after that, it is ■ hoped, will be to New Zealand. Mrs. Richards came to London for the Coronation festivities and then rejoined her husband in Glasgow, where he has the position of managing director of a well-known company. ■■. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Wilson.... are among New Zealanders who are receiving invitations to pay weekend visits to English country homes, .also to meet interesting people who are entertaining in London. They were yesterday among the guests of the Marchioness of Hartington. The hostess said how greatly she had enjoyed her short stay in New Zealand. At present Miss Jean Wilson and Mrs. Ensor (Auckland) are on the Continent, making a tour of Belgium, France, and the Rhine. In Brussels they met Miss Ruth Macky (Auckland), who is secretary to the New Zealand Trade Commissioner there. Miss Ruth Wilson has gone to , her old school at Weston-super-Mare, and Miss 'Wilson is still deeply interested in her floristry course. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have returned from a motor tour in North Wales and they will go to Norway and Sweden in July, with their daughters. Mrs. R; -T. Frost (Masterton) has come to the Old Country to meet her relatives whom she has not seen for 13 years. At present she is at Pentre, Rhondda, South Wales. Early in June she will go to Ireland and then a provincial tour will follow. Mrs. Frost's itinerary will conclude with a visit to the Continent. She will probably return ■to New Zealand in the autumn. •. The Bournemouth "Graphic" devotes some space to "Turn. the. Hour," remarking:- "New Zealand is becoming increasingly popular as a background for novels. ... Miss Rees knows New Zealand and knows how to describe the country's truly beautiful bush, and her passages about Auckland's Queen Street and the fishing streams round Rotorua should give an inward glow of pride to every New Zealand reader." The "Daily Telegraph" describes the romance as a "pleasant, unassuming tale about life in New Zealand; it will attract those readers who like their fiction to be free from the fidgets and to have a strong plot and an unexceptional moral."