LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 72, 22 September 1930, Page 13

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, Stli August. Hiss Winifred Quinton (Wellington j and Marton) has been teaching in a secretarial college lioar Sloane Square since Easter. She intends to -remain in England until the end of the year and then to go back to New Zealand. During the summer vacation she will visit friends in Exeter and Salisbury, and then hay« a motor tour. in. North Wales. Sergeant W. Day (now retired from the Defence Department afte-r 30 years' service) has, arrived .in England, with Mrs. Day. The latter is paying her first visit to the Motherland, and is already greatly impressed with the wonders of historic London. Sergeant Day left England 34 years ago. Mrs. Day, who is an officer of St. John Ambulance in New Zealand, will be calling at St. John's Gate, the London headquarters. On leaving London, i they will go first to Weymouth, whero Sergeant Day's father resides, and then they will tour in Yorkshire and Wales, and have a few weeks on the Continent.

Mrs. A. M' Gfuire, N.Z.E.N., will leave by the Bangitata, for a Jong-deferred visit (o her rolatives. Mrs. M'Guiie, who will fee accompanied b£ her Jittte

daughter, Miss Joan M'Guire, loft Now Zealand in 1914, with the idea mainly of continuing her art studies, which had been begun at Elam School, but while in America, war was declared and oho at onco came to England to offer her services to the War Office, having previously taken her training at Auckland Hospital. Her services were accepted for the Q.A.1.M.N.5., and very shortly after she was ordered to the Dardanelles on hospital ships and then transferred to Mesopotamia. There she was mentioned in dispatches for her services, and she mot Mr. M'Giiiro, whom she ultimately married. Their liome is in London.. Mrs. M'Guire s electro-therapy treatment clinic is well known to medical men, so she has a busy professional life. She looks forward to a six months' respite She will leave Southampton on 29th August. Mr. and Mrs. H. Ernest Leighton (Lower Hutt) intend returning to New Zealand .by the Orford on 20th October. They have been having an enjoyable time with 'friends in Bournemouth aud the Eastern counties; and have motored about "the principal places of interest with London as the centre. Mr. and Mrs. Leighton were among New Zealanders at the Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace last week, 'a function which. they greatly enjoyed. Until 9th August they will bo in Ipswich, and then will spend a few weeks in Devonshire. A short Continental tour may precede their return to. New Zealand. Another New Zealander who was present at the Royal Garden Party was Mr. H. Hayes (Lower Hutt). Miss M. E. Joachim (Dunedin) had a wonderful five months' round or travel prior to arriving in England. She visited Jerusalem, Damascus, Baalbeck Beirut, and many other centres of the Holy Land, and she travelled by air from Bagdad to Teheran and back. Then she went'on to Cairo, Alexandria, and Greece, attending the Delphic Festival. Next Miss Joachim travelled to Austria and saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau. During August she will divide her time between Dorset and Edinburgh, and in October she-will bo back in London to spend a tew weeks before going abroad for the winter. She expects to lie. away irom New Zealand until the end of next Yon. Archdeacon J. D. Enssell and Miss Russell have loft Harrow for a tour in the West of England, includine Bath r Salisbury, Exmouth, and Plymouth. They have no definite plans for the future, but they will probably lea.ye for New Zealand in October.