LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1924, Page 6

LONDON PERSONALS

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

(FKO3I OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}

LONDON, 29th November. The Hon. Arthur M. Myers lias taken up his duties as a member oi the Royal Commission on Local Government and has attended several meetings. Mr. Myers was approched to stand as a candidate at the Genera! Election, but he declined the invitation, although, as is well known, he holds very strong views on the desirableness of. Imperial Ire ference. Mr. and Mrs. Myers, and their family have arranged to spend Christmas at St. Moritz.

Illative to the bestowal upon R. H. Lowry of the llugby Blue by the Cambridge captain, tho "Athletic News" comments: -'In t.mis getting his Kugby Blue Ralph Lowry Ims completed the family 'hat trick,' " for Tom, '..he eldest, is the cricket Blue and nextyear's Light Blue skipper, while Jim slippered the tennis side' last summer. HaTph is nearly as good a tennis player as Jim, and during the winter and spring months, while Tom is cricketing in New Zealand, they proceed to the South of France and-clear the board at the various tennis tournaments that are held there. Tom Lowry has played on more than one occasion for the Rugby side. Two years ago he was playing full-back for the 'varsity against Trinity College, Dublin, when Halan, the 15-stone scrimmage half-back, ran into him. One of them was carried off, and it was not Tom! The Lowry family are most popular at Cambridge, and every one was very glad to see Ralph get his Blues. He is a very useful forward in every rough-and-tumble—he is not given to talking ; he just does !" Mrs. Sandberg (Wellington), and her son intend to remain in Europe for about three months. After Christmas Mrs. Sandberg will leave for Paris to visit relatives of her late husband. She will go thence through Italy and Switzerland, six- weeks being allotted for this Continental tour. On her return Mrs. Sandberg will visit relatives in Devonshire, and if time permits, she will go to Germany and Austria. .

Mr.and' Mrs. G. M. Kebbell (Wellington) have come south from Aberdeen where they have been spending the summer. Passing through London they were present at the reception given by Sir James and Lady Allen in honour of Mr. Massey, and now they have gone on to Bournemouth, where they think of spending the winter. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Warner (Wanganui), have been touring in the United Kingdom since May, and they are sailing by the Osterly this week on their return voyage, expecting to arrive in New Zealand at the end of January, after spending a short time in Sydney with friends. During his travels in the Mother Country Mr. Warner delivered a few lectures on the Dominion, lantern slides and literature being supplied by the High Commissioner's Office. Mr. Warner says he found a general feeling of pride in the splendid progress of the Dominion, and there usually was a general desire to visit it and to live there. The fact that its population is as small as it is, caused considerable surprise. The Dominion is being quoted freely everywhere as an example of a well governed country, and its land laws especially are consideded admirably fair and lucid, whereas the land laws in the Old Country are precisely the reverse. In every centre which he visited Mr. Warner found New Zealand proudly and affectionately remembered, for, as has so often previously been pointed out, the New Zealand soldiers left a fine record behind them in every corner of the United Kingdom. The latest visitor says : "Its brave soldiers will never be forgotten at Home."

_ Mr W. Crow, of the High. Commissioner's Office, will retire on superannuation on the 31st March next. Since his transfer from the New Zealand Public Service in 1920 he has filled'the position in this office of Librarian and Officer in Charge of the Information Bureau. Mr. and Mrs. Crow intend seeing the Exhibition, visiting various parts of Great Britain, and spending some time on the Continent before returning to the Dominion. After a fortnight's stay in London, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dolamore (Gore) have left for the South of France, where they have planned to spend the winter. They will probably return to London in March.

Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowiy (Hawkes Bay) arrived in London this week from Cannes. They are naturally delighted their son Mr. R. H. ' Lowry, has been awarded his Rugby Blue, and they will see him play in the important Varsity match next week. Complimentary references to the brothers Lowry, by the way, are still being made by sporting writers in the principle London dailies, and "The Evening Standard," two nights ago, giving their sports' record, headed the paragraph : "The Lowrys of Cambridge." Paymaster-Lieut. C. R. V. Gibbs has been appointed to H.M.S. Dunedin for service in New Zealand.

Mr. and Mrs.. Micheal G. Clark arriVed in England recently from Auckland, having travelled via Vancouver, the Canadian Rockies, Niagara, and i\ew York, and they have settled at their new home—Tilfcside, Cobham, Surrey. They have been on a short visit to 1-ans and Cognac. Mrs. Clark—who was a was Miss G. Marriner, of Auckland—has a sister a recent arrival, namely, Mrs. Sale, wife of Paymaster-Lieut-Cominander J. R. Sale, R.N., late of the New Zealand Navy. The latter is now at the Naval College, Greenwich Captain F. A. Sommerville, D.S.O.', R.N., who was recently selected for duty in New Zealand waters, is come °v? b r y .the Corinthic immediately alter Christmas. Captain Sommerville has done duty with submarines sines their introduction into the Royal Navy and m 1921 he was appointed to command the Submarine Depot, Fort Blockhouse. Fov his war services 1914-1918 with submarines, he was mentioned in dispatches, awarded the DS 0 promoted, and decorated with the Legion of Honour, ajid the Siamese Order of lorn °T™ At ]ta different periods —1900, 1909, and 1919-Captain Sommerville was attached to the China station.