LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 9

LONDON PERSONALS

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" Londoa Representative.) ' LONDON,, April 13. Surgeon-Commander A. Holmes Joy, M-Bi, B.Ch., medical officei? of the R.N. College, Greenwich, sind'e- • 1935, has been placed on the retired list, with the rank of surgeon-captain, on attaining the age limit. He has been 29 years in .the < Navy. His service: included New Zealand, in the Diomede.-; Pilot-Officer B. S. M.' Jones (Wanganui) is one of several New Zealanders who .left for the: East on April 6 for duties with a Bomber Transport Squadron in Irak. His companions are Pilot-Officers E. S. Knox (Ashburton), R. H. Nicholson, and Murray MacKenzie (both of Christchurch). All four were in England for 12 months, and they will be abroad, for three years, stationed at Habbaniya.

Wing-Commander H. W. L. Saunders, M.C., D.F.C., M.M., who was recently lent for duty under the New Zealand Government with acting rank as Group Captain, has been promoted' to that rank, frora April 1. '

Mr. William Watson, of Wellington, a director and former chairman of the Bank of New Zealand, who died on July 12, a native of Achany, Sutherlandshire, left personal estate in England valued at £2245. He left £50 each to the Salvation Army, the Home of Compassion, Island Bay, Wellington, and the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Oxford Uniyersity announces that the Conington Prize for Latin, value about £200, for 1939, has been awarded to R. Syme, M:A., Fellow of Trinity College. Mr. Ronald Syrrie is a brilliant New Zealarider who came to ' Oxford from Eltham in 1925. In 1936 Mr. Syme was appointed Dean of Trinity College, Oxford, and in November, 1937^ Fellow and tutor. of the same college.

The Manchester Central Library is richer for the gift of 2600 volumes of chamber music and 550 sets of band parts. This is the gift of Mr. A. M. Beaham who played the violin in a Manchester theatre orchestra. Perhaps he was scarcely noticed as he played his fiddle but his gift will makt him known to every lover of music.