Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17017, 14 December 1920, Page 7

Personal Items.

Professor J. 15. Condliffe is making a good recovery from an operation winch ho underwent a few days ago. t Mr K. Pliiipot-Crowther, of Sydney, I wiio is making enquiries into the fruttj growing industry in New Zealand, is at I present ou a visit to Cliristcliurch. j 'Die Reserves Comniittee of the City j Council has appointed, for three month?, Mr X. R. Jolinnsen to act as ranger at tiiio Bottle Lake Reserve during week-ends and holidays. i A, telegram was received yesterday ! that, the Bishop of Christchurch, Dr. •Julius, will not be able to arrive in CCiristrhurch till Friday morning, in 1 i'onsp<|uencv,. the special servico .arranged to be held in the Cathedral tomorrow morning has been postponed to Friday. Mr T. A. Fletcher, editor of tho "'School Journal," is at present in Chrislchui-.h. Mr Fletcher, who is an old boy of the Christ'hnrch Boys' High School, is. now a nro:uivient member of the "Wellington Footbnll Referees' Assofintion a , lne-mber of the N.Z. Referees' Association, a vice-president of tho Wellington Amateur Atretic so-iation. and lion. sec. of the N.Z. Alpine Club, of the journal of which he' is also editor. I7ntil his appointment to the "School Journal," nbnut ,o. year he was headmaster of the Cheviot school. Reference -was inodo pt the annual meeting of Y.MCA. last n'txht to tho death of Mr Albert Kaye, who had been a member of If'o board of directors continuously for :?o years. The chairman; Mr T. C. Field, sprke of Mr Kave's invilunbln sc'-viees to tho A*socintion. both spiritually and financially. and said thnt the Jato director had never boon lfnwn to "turn down" a good npnwl. On Mr Field's motion it S ricJ.iVlo-i to record t.b*» loss suffered by th-> death of Mr Kayo, to acknowledge his devoted service, ami to convoy to (his relatives thn Association's doewst sympathy, nt the same, tirao stating that the* Association was tho richer by the example of a life spent in Christian service. Members of tho Hibernian Catfinlic Benefit Sodctv envoi a farewell smoko social in the Hiborninn Hall last nicat to Mr J. Griffin, a of tho Society, who .is leaving for Waneanm to : take over a. business. Mr L. J. Courtney, president, was in tho chair. Tho Rev. Father Long, chaplain, presented Mr Griffin, on behalf of tlhe Society, with a gold chain and a greenstone pendant. Brother M. Grimes (secretary) roforred to tho groat amount of pood ■work which Bro. Griffin had put into tho Hibernian Society, as well n* into all tho other CntSiolio societies in Christchurch. AU wished him success in his new sphere, Several other members of +l,p T/"1"q hicblv of the worth of Mr Griffin. The health of Mr Griffin and family was drunk with musical honours. The recipient suitably returned thanks for th'o present and for the cood wishes expressed. A pleasant musical overling was subsequently spent. Profesor J. Mn>?rnillim Brown, who set out some two months ago for South America, en routo to Easter Island to mnke furtlhcr research, into tho t»toh'storio remains there, returned toNew Zealand somewhat unexpectedly last week. , He found himself imnblo to secure- transiwrt from Valparaiso to Ensteu Island, and consequently had in the meantime to abandon tho enterprise. He hopes later on in the year to pemiro passage by a steamer leaving New Zealand and calling at Easter Island, and if successful in reaching tho island will continue ihis investigations bearing on nast migr.atir»ns in tho Pacific. His observations of South America, and tho enquiries he made thore, revealed the existence of keen racial feeling between Chilo and Peru, due largely, so he waa told, to a quarrel over tho method of nttrnte disposition. Tho principal nitrato deposits of Peru wero leased to an American, wlho refused to grant supplies to Chile, or, in fact, to export them t6 any European nation. •