Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19057, 20 July 1927, Page 10

Personal Items.

♦ Mr H. W. Kitchingham has returned, to Christchurch from Greymouth. Mr C. E. Jones returned to Christchurch from Auckland yesterday mowing. Mr C. F. Champion, secretary of the Christchurch Drainage Board, has returned to Christchurch from Timaru. Mr L. E. Freeman was last night appointed an inspector of the Christchurch Drainage Board. Mr Scott Colville, representing E. J. Carroll's Ignaz Friedman tour, arrived yesterday morning to complete arrangements for concerts next week. Yesterday's arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs J. C. Young (Palmerston North) and D. F. McArthur (Wellington). Dr. Campbell Begg, of Wellington, has returned to New Zealand by the Maunganui, after a three months' business trip to America. Messrs W. Swapp, H. W. Moss, P. F. Mulhane (Wellington), A. Tribe (London), E. H. Lough, and J. McGowan (Dunedin) are staying at Wartier's Hotel.

-Mr D. C* Coote, inspector for the Bank of New Zealand, who has been on an official visit to Samoa, returned to Auckland on Monday by the Maunganui.

Mr J. M. Watson, of Invercargill, has accepted an invitation to judge the fat sheep section at the Melbourne Royal Show, to be held from September 15th to 24th.

Mr Justice Frazer arid Messrs W. Scott and A. L, Monteith, members of the Arbitration Court, have returned to' Wellington from their northern tour.

Dr. H. Professor of Dentistry, and Dean of the Dental Faculty at Otago University, passed through Christchurch yesterday morning on his return to Dunedin from Wellington. Mr John Farrell, of J. C. Williamson (N.Z.), Ltd., is now at Auckland, recovering from the severe operation he underwent in Wellington. He will probably remain there for some time, Messrs G. H. Judd, chairman, and H..H. Barrs, engineer and secretary of the Malvern Power Board, left for Wellington yesterday, to attend the conference of Power Boards, which opens in Wellington to-day. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr John Richardson, at-- one time a member of the Board, from 1909 to 1918, was passed at a meeting of the Christchurch Drainage Board last night. A visitor to New Zealand by the Maunganui, which arrived at Auckland on Monday, from Vancouver, is Mr W. Parker, of London, who is to make i live weeks' tour of the Dominion. He has big sugar plantations in South Africa, and is a well-known big-game sportsman.

Colonel M. M. Gard'ner, D.5.0., Officer Commanding the Southern Command, and Lieutenant-Colonel N. W B. B. Thorns, D.5.0., are now in Dunedin, where they are making preparations for a scheme of tactical exercises to be held from September Bth to 14th for senior officers of the Southern Command.

Mr C. C. Yates, who has been appointed registrar of the New Zealand College of Agriculture at Palmerston North, has been a member of the staff of the 'National Mortgage and Agency Co. of New Zealand for the past ten years, three of which he spent at the company's branches at Christchurch and Dunedin.

.On behalf of the Management Committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union, Mr A. E. McPhail (chairman), at last night's meeting, presented Mr L. Guiney/one of the Pressmen present, with a pair of gold* pencils, in appreciation of his services to the game. Mr Guiney is leaving the literary staff of the "Lyttelton Times" to join that of the "New Zealand Herald." The Rev. Jesse M. Bader, a missionary organiser and preacher, who is Visiting New Zealand and Australia at the invitation of the Churches of Christ, arrived at Auckland on Monday by the Maunganui. He is to conduct a series of conferences throughout the Dominion on "Personal Evangelism," "Preparations for Missions," and kindred subjects. Among the guests at the United Service Hotel are Messrs F. Woodward, A. C. Mitchell, J. T. Pettigrew, 3. G. Price (Wellington), A. Wardell (Masterton), H. Riddell (Dannevirke), H. Armstrong (Akitio), R. A. and E. S. Solomon (Dunedin). Rodney S. Thomas (Chicago, U.S.A.). E. Macdonald. V. le Cren (Fairlie), G. V. R. Robotham (Timaru). and H. Distler (Melbourne). The annual conference of the Power Boards' Association, which includes practically all the electrical supplv authorities in the Dominion, will onen in Wellington to-day. Cr. P. W, Sharpe. chnirman of the Electricity Committee, and Mr E. Hitchcock, eeneral manaser of the Electricity Department. from the Christchnrch City Council, left for the north last evening.

Mr H T. Armitage, a Deputy-Gover-nor of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, is a through passenger by the Tahiti, which ?mved at Wellington from Sydney yesterday. Mr Armita K e is bound for New York, accompanied by Mr A. W. Tne object of the visit to New York 1L nJl IS J; ÜB l-^ th snancial5 n ancial authorities the practicability of opening a branch ?U3 e Se%S onß ' ealth Bank there -