Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19064, 28 July 1927, Page 8

Personal Items.

Major H. S. Cole (London) is at the Clarendon Hotel.

Mr C. H. Andrews (Wellington) is a guest at Warner's Hotel. Messrs J. Renwick and J. Santos, of the Chatham Islands, are on a visit to Chxistchurch.

The Rev. J. T. Paddison, M.A., vicar of the Anglican parish of Kaiar poi, has been appointed to the Gore parish, on the retirement of the Rev. H. S. Bishop. Mr H. T. Little, who has been ill in Sydney, is progressing favouraibly and expects to be able to leave hospital in a week or two. His son and niece are leaving Sydney on Friday. Messrs A. R Turnbull (Wellington), J. Bewley (Hastings), E. T. Torrens (Belfast), K. 0. Thomson (Melbourne), W. A. Collins (Dunedin), H. Adams (Elenheim), and B. B. Blair (Dunedin) are at the United Service Hotel. Mr Justice Sim, who has been presiding over the Cnristchurch sittings of the Supreme Court for the past few days, will leave for Ihinedin by the first express to-morrow morning. He will be accompanied by Lady Sim. A letter has been received by the North Canterbury Hospital Board from Mr Henderson, of the Chatham Islands, accepting a position as one of the Board's representatives in connexion with the Hospital.

Major Shenton Cole, representing the London and North-Eastern Railway, is on a visit to the Dominion, enquiring into the prospects of developing direct trade between New Zealand and the Eastern Counties of England and Scotland. He is at present in Christchurch. Advice has - been received that Emeritus Professor Robt-. J. Scott, of Christchurch, has been re-elected & member of the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London. Of late years it has been the practice of this body to elect a representative member to the Council from each of the principal Dominions. Mr H. L. James, who recently retired from the secretaryship of the Dunedin Jockey and Forbury Park Trotting Oluibs, was met after a meeting of the Forbury Park Club last evening and presented with a handsome gold watch, suitably inscribed, as a personal token l of esteem from the stewards (states a Dunedin Press Association message). The Rev. H. F. Ault, of St. Matthew's, St. Albans, nas _ been accepted t>y the Church Missionary Society for service in India, and will probably leave about March next for mission work in Karachi and the Sindh. Mr Ault, when a student at Canterbury College a few years ago, was a prominent figure in track athletics, winning his Blue for the threemiles went.