NOTES FROM LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 77, 22 June 1927, Page 5

NOTES FROM LONDON

Concerning' New Zealanders (From Our Oxen Correspondent.') Mr. C. Seton-Kellaway, of Christchurch, has been motoring through the Southern counties. Mrs. R. Knox, Auckland, will be in London till the end of June, when she will visit Scotland —a pleasant spot to the north of England, full of crags and haggis. Dr. Alice Rose, Dunedin, has passed the Royal College of Physicians examination in London. Mrs. W. S. Bean and Miss L. Bean, of Christchurch, are now in London and will tour the Northern counties in June. Mr. Herbert Maunsell and his daughter Helen, intend spending about six months in this country and six months on the Continent. Keith Wilbur, a New Zealander, has had a great success at the Alhambra with, his impersonations. Paymaster-Lieutenant W. G. Hewson, R.N., has been lent to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy for three years, his first appointment being to H.M.S. Dunedin. Mr. James F. Scott, the New Zealand painter, has made a rapid recovery from his operation and is now convalescing in Rye. He will return to his studio in London very shortly. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Poulton, of Christchurch, spent some time in Palestine and then went to Beyrout, Smyrna, Constantinople, Athens and Naples. They are now on a camping tour in England. Major A. E. W. Salt, who was in the New Zealand Medical Corps during the war and later was chief instructor at the Army School of Education, is now stationed at Shorncliffe as chief instructor at the War Office. School of Education. Professor C. W. Egerton is visiting English universities to make himself acquainted with the methods of organisation and teaching in different schools of English. Mrs. Egerton arrived before him and has been visiting her daughters, Mrs. H. M. Cockrem and Mrs. E. T. Smith. Among the miniatures at the Royal Academy Exhibition* is one by Mrs. D. Forester, of Waimauku, which is very charming. It is a portrait of a grey-haired woman, with a background of bracken and a view of what is probably Auckland harbour. Among those who were presented at the Court of May 25 were Lady Parr, Mrs. Walter Bean and Miss Bean, Mrs. Vivian Riddiford and Miss J. Riddiford, Miss D. and Miss M. T. Macdonald, Miss M. M. Macdonald, Miss I. Lyon and Miss F. J. McHardy. A marriage has been arranged and will take place early in September between Edward George Land, eldest son of Mr. George Whiteaway, and the late Mrs. Whiteaway, of Seltham, Middlesex, and Lulu, eldest daughter of the Rev. Canon Bean and Mrs. Bean, cf Christchurch.