Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18686, 8 May 1926, Page 14

Personal Items.

The Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister for Lands, will visit Pahiatua, on Monday. Mr H. McClelland arrived hack in Christchurch yesterday from Sydney and Melbourne. Mr George Harper unanimously was re-elected chairman of the Domains Board at its annual meeting yesterday. Professor and Mrs J. B. Oondliffe, who have been visiting 4h& north, returned to Christchurch yesterday morning. Dr. T. Fletcher Telford (Medical Officer .of Health), Christchurch, has been elected a member of the, Royal Sanitary Institute. • Mr H. J. Beswick, who. has left on a visit to England, was granted one year's leave of absence from the Domains Board at its meeting yesterday. Recent arrivals at Warner's Hotel include .Messrs W. H. Hunt (Melbourne), G. M. Reid (London), Douglas Hay (Hamilton), and F. Seifert (Morrinsville). Mr F. P. Frye, of the Christchurch Drainage Board, and Nurses Buckley, Inglis, and Lorimer, of the staff of the Health Department in Christchurch, successfully passed the examination of the Royal Sanitary Institute, held in December last. Mr J. S. Duke, manager of the NewZealand Farmers' Co-operative Association's wool department, sails from Wellington on June 2nd for the United Kingdom on a combined holiday and business trip. He will attend the wool sales while in England, returning to the Dominion in time for the commencement of the local sales in November. It was announced at the meeting of the Dominion Executive of the Farmers' Union in Wellington that Mr W. J. Poison and the other members of the delegation which had been sent abroad by the New Zealand Government to enquire into the working of rural banks, would reach Sydney on July Bth. It wars hoped that Mr Poison would be back in time for the Dominion conference of the Union. 3lr Diamond Jenness, formerly of Lower Hutt. and a distinguished exstudent of Victoria University College, is now at the head of anthropological research work in Canada. Writing to a friend in Wellington, Mr Jenness says that in New Zealand the Maoris were not so very different in various parts of the country, but in Canada there is nearly as much diversity among the aboriginal, races as there is in Africa. There are at least seven, and probably eight, distinct languages, and a territory nearly as vast as the African continent. Mr Jenness states that he was appointed chief of the anthropological division in Canada since the resignation of his late chief. Dr. Sapier, who has become Professor of Anthropology in the University of Chicago. At present Mr Jenness is in Alaska.

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