PERSONAL ITEMS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16398, 18 December 1918, Page 8

PERSONAL ITEMS.

Their Excellencies tlio GovernorGeneral and the Countess of Liverpool will spend Christmas in Wellington. Early in the new year they will go into residence at Christchurch for some weeks, "Elmwood," Papanui, the residence of Colonel tho Hon. R. Heaton llhodcs, who is at present in England, having been again placed at their disposal. *

Mr C. E. Statham, M.P., went South yesterday.

Mr D. E. Parton. telegraph engineer at Masterton, has been transferred to Christchurch.

Judge Gilfedder. of the Native Land Court, left Christchurch for Invcrcargill yesterday.

Mr Varney and Mr C. M. Luke, of Wellington, are visiting Christchurch and the surrounding districts in connexion with Y.M.C.A. war work.

Mr H. Hunter left last evening for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Transport Workers' Advisory Board this afternoon.

Mr W. Parker, of tho staff of the

local office of tho Supremo Court, h* been transferred to tho staff of the Ij&w. Office at Invercargill. Mr W. H. Hagger, Conciliation Commissioner. left Christchurch for Dunodin yesterday to prcsido over a Bitting of tho Conciliation Council there.' Mr W. E. Thomson, who was in the service of the Blenheim branch of tho Bank of New Zealand prior to entering camp six months ago, has been ferrod to Kaikoura. Mr John Farroll, of the J. C. Williamson managerial staff, arrived from Wellington yesterday to make _ arrangements for the screening in Christchurch of tho war film "Hearts of the World." Tho Canterbury Employers' Association's delegates to the annual meeting of tho New Zealand Employers' Federa. tion 3 which opens in Wellington to-day» left by last night's ferry steamer. Thfl delegates wore Messrs W. Goss (president), E. C. Brown, and H. Broadhead (sccrotary). His Grace Coadjutor Archbishop O'Shea has received a cable message from his Holiness the Pope, congratulating him on the attainment of twenty, five years in tlie priesthood, and bestowing on him the Apostolic Benediction. Archbishop O'Shea has also received many congratulatory telegrams from' New Zealand and Australia.