LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 10 February 1931, Page 13

LONDON PERSONALS

i (From "The Post's' r*Representativo.) . LONDON, 6th January. ■ Miss Agnes' M'Loan and' Miss. M. B. MaeGregor (AVellington) arts leaving this week for Nice, to spend a month in the south of France. They will also visit tho Italian Biviera. On 13th February they will connect at. Marseilles with the Mooltan, on their return to New Zealand, via Sydney. Their trip to tho Mother Country .lias been ex-' tremely enjoyable,; and their last few weeks have been devoted to London. Miss Betty Stewart (Wellington, and a former student of Otago University) reached Southampton on sth October, and the next day she began her duties as Lecturer' in Chemistry at the Gloucestershire Training College of Domestic Science. Miss Stewart 'is spending hor Christmas vacation chiefly in London, but she hopes to fit in a few days at Cambridge and to visit friends in Kent and Surrey. She came to England via Suez. After Christmas, tho Bight Hon. L. S. Ainery and Mrs. Amery left for Switzerland to enjoy a fortnight of the winter sports, of which both are very able exponents. Bad luck befell Mr. Amery this week, for while ski-ing in the Sils Valley ho broke, a small bone in tho right ankle. Mr. B. R. Stock (Wellington), who came to England hi June of'last year, mado tho summer cvuiso of the Norwegian Fiords and afterwards saw the Passion Play at Obevammcrgau. He has made his headquarters at Earl's Court, but has recently boon staying with his brother, the Rev. Frank Stock, of Sel-by,..-Yorkshire. On Saturday he is leaving for a pleasure trip to South Ainer- j ica. The vessel calls at Oporto, Lisbon,] Madeira, and then goes to Brazil and 1000 miles up the Amazon. Mrs. N. S. Falla (Mr. Stock's daughter) is also staying in London. Her son, Mr. P. S. Falla, who recently obtained the Arthur Higgs scholarship in English for BalHol College, Oxford, will be entering tho collego in October next, when ho has attained the requisite age. Major Sir Douglas M. B. Hall, D.5.0., and Lady Hall have left London for Toulon, where they will join the Orontcs en route for New Zealand. They will bo away for six months. For service in tho late war Sir Douglas was thrice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the D.S.O. He belongs to the Coldstream Guards.