Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19734, 26 September 1929, Page 8

Personal Items.

Mr P Belig is leaving ». day by the s.s. Makuf* ftr^sL, The North Canterbury j|_ J Board yesterday npflolntijd flrir Aitkeii to the honorary ' **• The Hon. Mr MacGregor, HiLn pagged through Clmstehureh TfettMiu on hit. way south. ,MB %

Mr Farquhar Young has be«a to act as judge in eloauliMUrt* fcj debating sections at the AttfahS Cora petitidtis. Mr Pat Ward, a of & r Jo*j£, Ward, is leaving for America business trib. Mr Ward is 'itcrtS_i hi the motor trade. Mr W. W. Bird. Chief Inspectors Primary Schools, is carrying oist an inspection of Fiji schools, "and it present at Suva. Messrs Bartoh Hobba (DnaetUa.) * G. Mardon (Wellington), aid' i" , GaVey (Wellington) are stayi&t it ttl Clarendon Hotel. "••*»• Guests at Warner's Hotel ififiltMfcMessrs A. 8. Naming (Got*), L lifcZ farlane (Culvefden), and A. f tt«X. (Wellington). **** Sir Carrick Robertson, of A«ki«* was a passenger on the MatStattL which arrived from Ban Prfcaelato «a Monday, Mr K. J. Parr, Chief Ih*p*otef tf Secondary Schools, is visiting kchesjd in the Watkato district at present and Will return to Wellington toUrtrv thy end of beat month. Mr A. t>. Palslev, governing dire*, tor of the Goldberg AdrertiaiiJ;' Agency, who has been en a tlsiiffeik the South Island, returned to WellfcnS«| ton by last night's ferry steamer. T^jjf Mr G. Doig, of the Chttstl-hntek' branch of the Bank of New Bottta f Wales, who has been relieving at tfcfe." Westpcrt branch, returned to church on Tuesday evening. Mr Maurice Ralph, South Island tsjfc age? for J. C. Williamson (Jf.i.), UA returned to Chrietehureh yesterday tfW directing the southern tour of tf| Bunce-Nugeht Comedy Company. At the last meeting of the Hu&gjA, tarian and Anti-Vivisection Society, a motion of sympathy was passed «tfi the relatives of the late Mr J. A. Forbes, honorary Dominion crgMjej* of the Society, who died recently Mj Oatnaru.

Mr Donald W, Beard, a dlmtat %t Eili, Norman, and Beard, lAA., ytfi builders, London, passed threugfc Cvnchurch yesterday on his way to Dttat> din. Mr Beard is visiting Du&tdla la connexion with the crectlea of the ntwi Town Ball organ.

Recent arrivals at the United tiso v«« Hotel include: —Messrs D. Pa«. V lay, H. A. Godwin, A. J. Cotemaa, It - J. Houlihan, and A. W. MoQNOkr (Wellington), H. Vincent (Sydney) A. H. Richards (Timarn), H. Whiata (Auckland), and t>. G. H. Bosk (Pt»w nnssus).

Many representative cHlaeas of Hastings met at the Grand Hotel a* Friday afternoon last for thapttrßOM of saying farewell to Mr H. TTtJfea, states an exchange. Mr Urea has been the manager of the Hsstugs branch uf the Public Trust Office for some tim?, but has recently tts transferred to Omstchnrch.

One of two survivors of the famoae 57th Regiment, the "Diehard*." Set* geant-Major E. Beantr, of WaJbagtcOi who it 91 years old, travelM frost Wellington test week to ki fNMgt g - the celebration of tha flOfh automat? af the Pahnerttoo Horth VcdaateW Brfiaa, of which be Was the tat ia* structor. ll* other New fithnsf * ■ snrvivor of th« s7l» itegiieai, Afratt -- Michael Gill, trtw >fc ia& ttr? *-' year, is an inmate el Till mil Hcate, \ Waipukurau. The pair set is Deoea* b-?r last, when tke visited his old conspaaioa. At the annual meeting of the WAf lington Cricket AanektSia, the chj&» man (Mr M. F. LncUe) nude feetiag . reference to the loss the Associates} ■. had sustained during-the past vear If the deaths of the R*r. Father B. ByaAigk and Messrs A. B. Wffliaaw, P. BenmmMk W. E. Bethune, and B. M. Wilson. Mr'SH

Luekie referred to tha rifMl walk* ' each of the depart* pMNftea fel rendered to the gatM ONHMg Ins I3e» time, and specially rsiwrad f the lata ■ Mr Arnold Williams, who, M said. f,> had been one of the finest" ihwu .._ cricketers the Dominion had proaeeo, while the late Mr Boras had •*•».» • most competent umpire aal 0B« of tat *- beat authorities on the kin of taa | game the province had am posstssM. |