Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20215, 18 April 1931, Page 14

Personal Items.

The Bishop of" Christchurch' leaves this morping for the -West Coast for the convocation of the new ebureh at, Waihao Gorge, and to take' confirmstibng in. various centres and the parishes' of Bbss, Hokitjka, and Samara. Mr T. Buxton, Dominion Organiser for the United • Party, intends leaving for 'Wellington to-night. - Messrs L. A. Morgan (Auckland), ,H. Miller, (Sydney), ttnd C. 'W. - Hay ward (Melbourne) are staying at. Warner's Hotel. , . . • Messrs C.. J. B. Norwood (Wellington)! B. 0. Pomeroy (Manchester ),snd 1 Norman 'Bell (Wellington) are regis- | tared at the', United Service Hotel; * , Messrs W. (%ading),H.Jl Delargey - (Hakataramea), *«nd E. t ß{ i Staith/(Dtmedin) are arrivals at. [the Clarendon Hotel. -j. rj . ' Messrs A. Wilkes,- C. G. < Rioharctoj ' , S, HbWarth, J. W. Graham, H. Wylos '.were ■ passengers from Wellington on the ferry, steamer yesterr day. 0 The' Mayor (Mr J. Archer) yn» accorded a vote of .thanks at yesterday's meeting ofthe Board of Governor* of the McLean Institute, for his conscientious wibrk> during his membership of the Board. , J ' Mr G. H. Christie, last yearVprepidient, of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association, has-been elected to the position for the remainder of the term of office of Mr -A. jr. Benzie, who' died after occupying the presidential; chair for< five or six weeks.' 1 A motion of sympathy, with ijlie, relatives, of Mr G. J. Sealey, who had been a member of the South, Canter- I bury Education Board, of the Timaru l Technical .College Board,-and .chairman ] of- the Timaru South ; School Commit- j tee. was 'passed* at yesterday's meeting of the Canterbury Education , Board. ' Commander V. A..C. Crutchley, V.C., who is attached to the New Zealand Division of the" Royal Naval Reserve at Wellington, and who is to be one of the speakers at the social gathering to be given |>y the Canterbury branch of the Navy League on Thursday, April 23rtt, was a lieutenant ,on board H.M.S. Brilliant at the raid on Zeebrugge and the blocking of the Bruges cabal; For his great'coolness under heavy Are and tor setting a fine example to his men on. that occasion, he was awarded the JHbtingtiished Service Cross, and at >the raid on Ostend on May 9-lpthj;l9lsi"he was awarded the Victoria jQross for, an act of gallantry.