LONDON PERSONALS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18875, 30 May 1923, Page 10

LONDON PERSONALS

(From Oue Own Cobeespondent.) LONDON, April 13. Mr .Henry Wood (Christchurch) arrived in London a few days ago by the Remucra. and has joined Mi's and Miss Wood at their fiat, 21 Oadogan gardens. Mr and Mrs Gilbert Lee (Christchurch) arrived recently from Queensland, and they will be in England until August, when they go out by the Niagara. En route to Queensland Mrs Lees hopes to spend a few weeks in Christchurch with her parent', Mr anj Mrs Charles Wood. Mr Lees, it will be remembered, is manager in Queensland of Messrs Thomas Borthwick and Sons (Ltd.). Miss D. M. Herbert (Heriot) has arrived in England on a visit of pleasure, and she hopes to travel extensively in England and Scotland as well as on the Continent. Mr W. G; M’Lean Buckley and Mr K. H Perry are among those who have successfully got through the Passing-out Examina tion from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Mrs F, G. Coulter (nee Miss <7. M Hornsby, Nelson) was in London last week for a few days. Her home is in Sligo. Mrs Coulter is still contributing very useful articles on New Zealand to leading papers which make a special feature of Empire topics. With a view to further illustration work, Mrs Coulter has been giving considerable time to black and white colour study, and she was successful recently in winning a first prize (silver medal) in an opbn competition. Miss A. E. Barker and Miss A. J. King (Christchurch) left London in November for a trip on the Continent, and they have just come back after five, very pleasant months spent' in Paris, Italy, and Switzerland. They intend remaining in London for the present, and to take motor tours through Wales, Devonshire, and Cornwall during the coming summer. Miss Ada Harrison (Wellington) contemplates remaining on this side of the world for two years.- In June she will go to North Wales •to visit her mother’s native town and to see the Davies flannel mills in Merionethshire that were 6wned by her mother’s people for generations. During her Homeward voyage Miss Harrison stayed at Cairo and climbed one of the pyramids. She intends spending next winter in Franco. Mrs L. Langdoil (Wellington) and her two daughters have been in London since their arrival by the lonic, but they are about to leave on a visit to France and Switzerland. Juno and July will be spent in Devonshire aiid Cornwall. At the end of July they are going by the Ormonde to the Norwegian fjords, and are looking forward to a most enjoyable tour. No definite plans have yet been made relative to the return journey to New Zealand, but they expect to leave about the end of the year. • • Mr ‘PerciVal ,L. Witherby, who recently arrived from the dominion, is staying with his sister, Mrs Welch, at Chilworth, in Surrey. * The Rev. W. B. Stanford and Mrs Stanicrd, who were formerly well known in Christchurch, celebrated a few days ago the 60th anniversary of their wedding. Upon returning to England from New Zealand, Mr Stanford was head master of St. Mark’s College, Windsor, until in 1893 he was elected Rector of Wishaw, Birmingham. The Rev J J. North (Christchurch) reached London just before Easter, after having spent three months of his year’s holiday in India, where he saw a great deal of life in the East. At Marseilles he left his steamer and toured the Riviera of .Italy, going thence to Switzerland and France. The first six weeks of his stay in England are being spent in London. Mr North has undertaken various preaching engagements at several of the historical churches, and during the current month he will sneak at the Baptist Union meetings. In May -he will occupy the pulpit of the City Temple. In July he will go to Stockholm to attend the World Congress of his Church, and his present plan is to leave for New Zealand by tile Rimutaka on August 24. The Hon. Dr Collins and Mrs Collins are among recent- arrivals from- the dominion. They are at present staying with their daughter at Merton Park, but will ,t>resently come up to London, having taken a flat at Whitehall Court. , Mr M. C. Barnett (Wellington), the retired Assistant-Public Trustee, arrived by the Remuera, and at present is,staying in London with Dr G. M'. F. Barnett, who is one of the staff at Middlesex Hospital. Mr Barnett expects to remain in England for at least 1 a year. Mr J. R. Cruickshank (New, Plymouth) is on a short business trip to London and the Provinces. He expects to leave for' the dominion about the end of May. Mr J. T. Horn (British Manager of the Old Colony Club) has just returned from an. extended visit to the United States, where'lie was engaged in business in relation ,to the dub. He carries back, the impression that the trade slump, in the States is now passed and business is booming again. Especially is this so in the great manufacturing cities of the Middle West which he visited in the course of his trip. High salaries and expensive living are notable, features of the country. _ A clerk who in London would be receiving £260 a year as much as 5000 dollars in America. Though the cost of living is high, Mr Horn believes that the ordinary America’s great expenditure is largely attributable to the “cost of high living.” Italians, and other Continental races, and the Irish subsist more frugally over there, and are,, able to save money from their high salaries. As a result of Mr Horn’s negotiations it' has been decided that in future the -headquarters for the British Empire section of the Old Colony Club will ho in London. The British Club will be an entirely separate financial entity, but reciprocity will he observed with the clubs of the United States. Mr Horn has returned in time to negotiate the sale of New Zealand apples for Messrs George Munro (Ltd.), the firm to which the greater proportion of the season’s shipments will be consigned. . Recent callers at the High Commissioner s Office have included: —Mrs F. G. Coulter (Nelson); Mrs A. A, Ramsay (Epsom); Mrs E. T. Branting (Dannevirke); Mr A. G. Mumley (Heretanngal: Mrs S. Hi Gilmer (Wellington); Mr A. K. Warren (Te Aute): Miss Ada Harrison (Wellington); Dr and Mrs R. A. Bagley (Oxford); Miss F. M. Marryatt (Wellington) : Mrs S. S. Hutchings and Miss C. Mi Hutchings (Auckland); Mr George Coull (Wanganui); Commander J. G. Walsh, R.N. (H.M.S. Philomel); Miss K. Morrison (Masterton) and Miss M. AMorrison; Miss I. J. Andrew (Nelson); Mr and Mrs F. Olson (Christchurch): Miss E. C. Lea (Hataitai, Wellington); Dr R. H. Baxter (Hamner Springs); Misa A. E. Hansard (Napier); Miss P. M. P. Clark (New Plymouth); ,Mr and Mrs G. S. Simpson (Dunedin); Mr M, C. Barnett (AVellington); Mr and Mrs G. Lees (Christchurch): Mrs Malcolm Ross (Wellington) ; Mr and Mrs W. J. Moon and Miss Moon (Christchurch); Mr and Mrs T. E. Chisnall (Christchurch); Mrs C. M. Hart (Timaru) ; Mr J. Nairn (Feilding) ; Mrs 11. Oliver (Dannevirke); Miss D. M. Herbert (Heriot); Mr and, Mrs J. F. Buchanan, the Misses A. Turrell and Mr G. M. Turrell (Little- River); Mrs Elliott Meade (Nelson) ; Miss M. J.' Forster (Kumara); Mr S. G. Frith (Auckland): the Misses L. S. and M. R. Laurie (Christchurch);, Mr W. M. Smith (Wanganui); the Misses A. P. Newton and J. P. Smith. (Wanganui); the Misses R.' M. and A. M. Williams and Mr F. H; Williams (Napier); Misses M. and D. Campbell (Napier); Mr and Mrs A. Londoun and Miss E. Loudoun (Napier); Mr and -Mrs W. Campbell, Mr J. Campbell (Wellington); Mr and Mrs W. J. Harland (Wellington); Mr and Mrs M. C. Boyes (Wellington); Mrs M. Barclay, Mr D. W.’ Barclay, and Mr G, P. Barclay (DannevirkeT: the Misses A. E. Barker and A. J. King (Christchurch) ; the Misses A. and M. Hadfield (Marton and Wanganui! : Miss E. Nathan (Wellington); Mr J. H. Rose (Auckland); Miss R. Salmond (Dunedin); Mr and Mrs Angus Gunter (Wellington);. Miss E. Davies (Auckland); Mr and Mrs W. F. Craig (Aucldand); Mr and Mrs J. Dioling (Auckland). Mrs A. A. Ramsey (Epsom) intends (ravelling to Paris by air at an early date. Then, after visiting the south const of England, she will go to Scotland by way of Biimingham and Manchester. During her travels Mrs Ramsay, of course, is devoting a good deal of time to her professional interests.

Mr S. Hutchings and Miss C. M. Hutchings (Whar.garci) are intending to go (o Paris about the end of the month. Their stay will not be a long one, for they have booked return passages by the Niagara, sailing from Vancouver in August. On their return from the Continent they will spend a short time in Scotland and be back in London.for some of the season’s fixtures. The Rev. T. G. B. Kav has been appointed rector of Christ Church, Marylebono. In 1910 Mr Kay was appointed rector of Compton Abbas, and lately he. has been vicar of Souiluninstor, Essex, in the lioccse of Chelmsford. His last vicariate in \ow Zealand was at St. Luke’s,, Wellington. Mr and Mrs G. S. Simpson (Dunedin) ravelled by way of South Africa. At turban and Capetown they met several exlunedin men. After a short stay in Lonlon, Mr and Mrs Simpson will' leave for he Midlands and Edinburgh on a visit to relatives, and they will return to London in August. There are many readers in New Zealand who will learn with regret of the death of Mrs Agnus Anson, widow of Mr Frederick

A. Anson (formerly of Akaroa). Mrs Anson passed away in London on April 7, and the funeral took place at Shirley, Croydon, last Tuesday. , , . . The news reached London this week oi the deatli at sea on April 6 of Mrs v'avrnoutli, widow of. Frederick Waymouth, Christchurch. The deceased lady apparently was on her way .to England. The news has arrived in London of tno death at Poona on, April, 7 of Mrs B. Lowther-Jones, younger daughter of the late Mr G. F.. Cornwall. Mrs LowthcrJones died from peritonitis at the early age of 27. Her husband, who is in the Indian Army, was stationed at Poona with ins legiment.