PERSONAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 128, 12 March 1935, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Mrs Raymond Oakley, of Mayfield, left this morning to attend the annual Women’s Christian Temperance Union conference in Dunedin.

Mrs T. E. Taylor, of Christchurch, (Dominion President of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union), passed through Ashburton by train this morning on her way to the annual convention of the Union in Dunedin.

Mr W. G, Hillier has returned from Christchurch where he has been for some weeks supervising the reformation, tar and bitumen sealing of the. Upper Dyer’s Pass Road for the Heathcote County Council.

A cablegram from Sydney states that Chief Commissioner Childs yesterday resigned from the New South Wales police force owing to advancing age. His successor is expected to be Metropolitan Superintendent J. W. Mackay.

Mr R. Pollock, representing Stanley McKay’s “Gaieties of 1935,’' was in Ashburton to-day making arrangements for the company’s appearance at His Majesty’s Theatre next Tuesday.

The Rev. W. and Mrs Marshall will leave Ashburton to-night for. Wellington to embark on the Rangitiki on Friday en route to London. They will be away from New Zealand for about nine months. Mr Marshall expects to tour England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Continent.

The Rev. A. W. Stuart, who has been organising and deputational secretary to the Canterbury and Westland Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society since 1929, will leave Christchurch ‘with Mrs Stuart to-morrow evening to take up an appointment as State secretary to the New South Wales auxiliary of the society.

Mr George Shirtcliffe, who has been chairman of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research since its inception, has tendered his resignation as a member of the council and the Government has appointed Professor W. Riddett, of Massey College, as his successor on the Council. Dr. H. G. Denham, of Christchurch, has been appointed to succeed Mr Shirtcliffe as chairman of the council.

At the Ashburton Baptist Church last night, Mr William Judd, a member ,who is leaving for England by the Rangitiki, was presented with two books, by the Rev. L. P. Bryan, on behalf of the church. Mr Bryan expressed the wish that he would enjoy a safe journey and a speedy return. A presentation was also made to Mr Judd by members of the Bible Class on Sunday.