LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 11

LONDON PERSONALS

(By Air Mail, from "The Posfs" London Representative.) LONDON, November 7. Squadron-Leader D. McC. Gordon (Wanganui) has been appointed chief flying instructor at No. 7 Flying Training School, Peterborough, in succession to Squadron-Leader A. C. Mitchell. Squadron - Leader . Gordon entered the R.A.F. with a short-serr vice commission in February, 1930, and after training at Netheravon served for a year with No. 4 (Army Cooperation) Squadron at Farnborough., He then qualified as a fiying-boat pilot, and for two years and a half was with No. 210 (F. 8.) Squadron at Pembroke. A permanent commission was granted him in June, 1936, alter he had qualified as a flying. instructor. During the past three and a half years he has been.on the. staff at No. 6 Flying Training School, Netheravon.

Mr.. A. Spencer Scoular, who is to take over the position of engineer to the Duriedin City Council next year, has reached London in the course of a visit" to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, planned for him by the council. On his way to England ie spent "two.months in the United States, when he visited a great many towns and cities under the auspices of the American Society of Civil engineers. In the United Kingdom he will receive the co-operation of the High Commissioner, Mr. W. J. Jordan, the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the Ministry of Transport. He plans to return to the United States and Canada during January, and after a stay there to continue his journey to New Zealand during the middle of February.

Mr. W. J. Blackie, formerly of Dunedin and now Government Chemist in Fiji of the British Colonial Agricultural Service, has reached London after 15 months' study in the United States. The holder of a Commonwealth Fund service Fellowship, he has been studying biochemistry and performing biochemical research at >Yale University. With his wife, he toured 12,000 miles by motor in the United States, and gained a good insight into American agricultural methods. They return to New Zealand by the Rangitane, sailing on November 10, for a brief visit before proceeding to Fiji early in 1939. ' .