LONDON PERSONALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 14

LONDON PERSONALS

MRS. CHAMBERLAIN'S WISH

(By Air Mail, from "The Post's" London Representative.)

LONDON, December 15.

Mrs. Neville Chamberlain stated at a teherry party given by the Overseas League in London, after meeting members from "Canada, South Africa, East Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, that she hoped, with Mr. Chamberlain, to be able to visit many of these ' places, particularly New Zealand — "the fisherman's paradise." "It is only when one meets the people of the i Dominions that one realises that our happinesses are bound up together," she added. "We have, the same aims and the same principles." Countess Jellicqe will spend Christmas in Switzerland; She will be away for three weeks.

Miss Inger McLennan (Wellington) will leave by the Tamaroa on December 23 after an interesting visit to Europe. She has.travelled a good deal on thfe Continent by car. Switzerland appealed to her greatly, and she found

Holland very -interesting, also Paris. Between now and the time of her departure she intends; to go to Copenhagen, travelling by air. There she' will spend a few days'meeting relatives of ; her mother.

Dr. and Mrs. P. A. Melville Heath, with their infant daughter, left for: Wellington by the Rimutaka. Dr.; Heath is to;take up a position at Sunny-; side Mental^ Hospital, Christchurch. Until the eve of his departure he was J at St. Andrew's Hospital, Thorpe, Nor-| wich. While in Norfolk he was a member of the Norfolk Broads Yachting Club, yachting being his chief form of recreation. Mrs. Heath is a daughter of, the late Rev. Grariville;! Ramage, of the. United Free Church of Scotland.

The engagement is announced between Flight-Lieut. Eric TfenchardSmith, son, of Mr. and Mrs. O. Trenchard-Smith, of Auckland, : and Vera, stepdaughter of Mr. S. A. Medwin; and only daughter of Mrs. Medwin, of Coverack, Cookham, Berks.