LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 4

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Port's" RejrtientaWw.) LONDON, October IS. Mr. F. Lawrence West (Taranaki) hag taken a-course of air raid -precaution instruction at Bristol, and has since qualified as Grade I instructor and I lecturer in air raid precautions. Ho hopes to take a course of training at the Civilian Anti-gas School at FalI field, Gloucester, before returning to 'New Zealand. Meanwhile, Mr. West lis lecturing in lhe Woking and Guildford districts and studying ' general A.R.P. organisation. Mr. C. K. Webster (Wellington) awl Mr. John L. Howman (ChristchurcH)l have returned to London after «n extensive tour through a .number ol European countries, including Qe*» many, Denmark, Sweden, 7>oM°f. Soviet Russia, Latvia, and Polana. Russia was found to be a roost Interesting country inasmuch as it to ttw home of a gigantic experiment. As « result of their travels, the New zeelanders are convinced that Russia aojjj not want war. She is too busy.wiw her internal problems. . Mr. W. F. Jordan, only son ot the High Commissioner for New ZealalUt Mr W. J. Jordan, has passed jjte matriculation examination c* Ifedon University. Of 730 who sat only »> passed, and Mr. Jordan was among t»p first 25 to secure the highest m*ggv He is at present at St. Andrews un* versity, Scotland. „. Mr. S. W. Jarvis, holder of H£r 'Zealand swimming records and tmet, and well-known in' the swimnung fraternities in Auckland and DunWta, has succeeded in gaining a commission in the Royal Atf Force. He expects to leave London early in November. Mr. R. J. Mcllroy. M.Sc, Victoria University College, Wellington, has been awarded the Chidlam scholarship' for post-graduate research at Birmingham University. Mr. McHroy was on the staff of Massey College before he came to England. . »u_j Mr. Norman Davis, Otago Rhode* Scholar for 1934, has taken up his appointment as a lecturer in the University of Kaunas, Lithuania. Mr. G. R. Ashbridge (Wellington), the holder of a Carnegie scholarship to study teachers' organisations andEducational Administration, is-in London. He has come to the National Union of Teachers as it is the aifli* powerful organisation of teachers m the world. Towards the end o< ttp year he will go to Paris, Berlin. Geneva, and Vienna, and .will return to London for a tour of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Early in th* yjg Mr. Ashbridge expects to leave for tn« United, States. ■* ;«k..j^ Mr. Sydney L. Thompson (Christchurch) has returned to Concan»ei#, where for so many years he lived ana painted some of his best-known^ ptelures. He -will remain there until tfi© end of October, visiting and painting many harbours along the Brittany coast. From Finisterre he will go to Paris where he intends making ani. exhaustive study of contemporary art in the galleries and »rt schools. He understands that the Paris Exhibition offers every facility for the compare tive study o£, European; arti as:.. tne various nations have. representative collections in their various courts. He hears, too, that the French Gallery o£ Modern Art is particularly interesting. Before crossing, to France, Mr. Thompson spent some days with his son, Mr., S. Y. Thompson.: B.SaAgn-. who. working at the Shinfield- Dairying Institute in Essex, —'; 7_a 33 Mr J. W. Ewart (New Plymouth), who has recently been gamin* experience at Berlin and Kew, has 'bear££ pointed assistant curatory theJ3aiw dens Department. Straits Settlements,

McKenna's will sell-by public tion tomorrow at 2 p.m., at their rooms 18 Molesworth Street, a miscellaneous catalogue of furniture, tools, and useful sundries

E. Johnston and Co., Auctioneer*, will sell a 5-roomCd bungalow. at M Salek Street, Kilbirnie, tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. They will al^, sell carpets at their mart, 8 WIUasUH; 5 Street tomorrow at .1 p.m» ,^**^ *- J