LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1938, Page 18

LONDON PERSONALS

(From "The Port's" Bepresentative.) LONDON, January 5. Miss Jean Batten is taking a holiday on the south coast at St., Margarets Bay near Dover, before travelling north to give some lectures. ' Miss G. M. P. Hopkins (Christchurch), who has spent several months in England and on the Continent, will leave for New Zealand by the Rangitiki tomorrow.

"The Times" announced the engagement yesterday between Lieutenant Terrence Desmond Hernck, R.N., second son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hernck, of Hastings, and Miss Janet Aylmer Orbell second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Orbell, of Timaru. A bequest of approximately £5000 to the New Zealand Institute for the Blind is made under the will of the late Mrs. Isabella Grace Marian Inperson, who died in London.on October 3 The will, of which the Public Trustee is executor and trustee, provides that, subject to the payment of certain legacies, the residue of _ the estate is to be bequeathed to the institute. . ■' ,;■■. ■. ■ The talented Feilding musicians, the 'Misses .Vivienne- and Betty Blamires, who have- been, studying in London since 1935, have just achieved further successes. Miss Vivienne Blamires has passed her L.R.A.M. examination in singing, and Miss Betty Blamires has passed her final examination for the degree of Bachelor.of Music and has been awarded a scholarship for composition. Both girls are continuing their studies at the Royal College of Music, and hope shortly to give "a recital there. i

Miss E, M. Black (Wellington) left by the Stratheden. on the last stage of her journey back to New Zealand after attending the convention of the International Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association at Philadelphia, where she represented the New Zealand unit of the association. While in London, Miss Black attended a floral school and qualified, for a Constance Spry diploma/Shortly before her departure, Miss. Black .entertained a number of London and New Zealand friends at Dartmouth House, the New Zealanders present including Mrs. A. de Castro, Mrs. Douglas Munro, Mrs. Schabb, Miss Ruth Mills, Miss. Anne Farcy, Misses M. and L. Cockayne, and Miss E. L. McLaren.'

,Miss Isabel Brash, 8.A., has been appointed general secretary for Scotland of the Girls' Friendly Society, which has its headquarters in Rutland Square, Edinburgh.

Miss Betty Esson will accompany her father to Cairo for a Postal and Telegraph Conference this month.

Experts know of about 1600 different varieties of apples. • '