LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 5

LONDON PERSONALS

ißy Air Mall, from "The Post's" London Representative.) - LONDON, November 10. Mr B. H. P. Kelly, the holder of a Bishop Hadfield Scholarship for training with a view to taking Holy Orders in 1940, is at St. John's College Durham. After ordination he may remain in England for. a while to gain experience in parish work. Mr R. F. Milne (Lower Hutt) is at- present training at the Civil Flying School at Prestwich, Ayrshire, in company with eight other New Zealanders. They expect to be there for approximately two months, and then to go to Uxbridge for a fortnights drill, following which will come Advanced Training School. The New Zealanders expect to be in the R.A.F. for about four years. They are finding their training very interesting, and they are doing reasonably well. Mr. H. L. Baker, a graduate of Victoria University College and holder of a Post-Graduate Scholarship in Arts of the University of New Zealand, is in Paris. He recently qualified for the diploma of the Institute de Phonetique there, and is working on a thesis entitled "The Style of Pierre Loti." Mr. Baker later hopes to go to a German university for a short course. Alight-Lieutenant P. A. McWhannell (Wellington) is one of nine R.A.F. officers to be selected provisionally for a permanent commission. He and fifteen others are dtie for transfer to the reserve in February and March next. Mr. McWhannell was one of the two New Zealand pilots recommended in 1933 by the Director of Air Services in the Dominion. Last April he was appointed to the School of General Reconnaissance, Thorney Island.

Among students who are taking the Air Force course and who are now qualified to start on their second term are Messrs. Charles Hutton (Wellington) and'R. C. Mathieson (Auckland). Their retaining in the senior term will consist of air photography and practical bombing and target shooting from aircraft, mainly at the drogue, which is towed behind another aircraft.

Mr. Bruce W. Roughton, formerly an artist on the staff of the "New Zealand Herald," and a pupil of the Elam School of Art, arrived in London from Australia in 1937. After several months with Dorland Advertising, Ltd., he had the offer of a position as a visualiser (designer of advertisements) with the firm of Everett Jones and Delemere, Ltd. Four months ago he joined the staff of the "Sunday Pictorial" as assistant art editor and is still carrying out that work. He hopes eventually to return to New Zealand.

The Rhodes Scholarship Trust has issued its statement for the academic year, 1937-38. M. McG. Cooper, 19a4, Merton College, qualified for the B.Litt. in modern history. W. F. Monk (1935), Oriel, won a Beit Senior Research Scholarship. W, E. Henley, New College, 1929, House Physician to Medical Unit, St. Mary's Hospital, London, was elected to a Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in Medicine. J. E. Lovelock proceeded to the degrees of B.M. and M.A. Among books published were J. M. Bertram's "North China Front" and Geoffrey S. Cox's "Defence of Madrid." R. A. Farquharson, director of the Water Supply Development scheme for British Somaliland, received the Order of the British Empire. Mr. Alan C. Browne, F.R.G.S., A.R.C.A., returned three weeks ago to England from New Zealand to continue his lectures on the Dominion. In the short time he has been back he has lectured at Ackworth School, Yorkshire, at Witley, Surrey, at Bursledon, near Southampton, to the St. John's Literary Society, Altrincham, Cheshire, at Keswick, and at Folkestone. His immediate plans are to address the Sidcup Literary Society and then to visit Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Scotland.