Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20710, 22 November 1932, Page 8

Personal Items.

Mr G. C. Niteh (Wellington) is » " H guest at the Clarendon 'Watel. ■ Mews L. D, Hudson and C. ■ Leod (Dunedin) are guests at Uw' S United Service Hotel. ' The Rev. B. M. Wilson, or OpsffHj has accepted a call to tho Semaphore Baptist QhUroh, South Austrdifct awl will commence kit ministry eafly la the New Year. ■ ■ ' Mr Ernest McKinley, the New Zealand singer of Maori songs, returned t» Sydney yosterd&y from England, pitor a ■world tour with the Westminster Glee Singers, states a Sydney cable message. Mr J. Voss has been recommended by the North Canterbury MetliWist Synod to the Methodist Conference f? r appointment as District Foreign 5 " gion Secretary for North CanterfjtlW for the next oonnexional year i& SU*" cession to the Rev. S.'Lawry, * relinquishing that position on actopwrt of failing health. Mr F. J. Langbein, of Stoke, M son, who has represented the firft # ~ Messrs Blng, Harris and Oo.' # traveller on the West Coust for neat? half a century, is retiring o» aflrf 1 annuation. Mr Langbein three generations of common)) al trw lers, 'and has long been looked sft§ as the veteran "Knight of thfi OT® When Mr Langbein first oOWiW-, travelling motor transport, of was unknown, and he recalls, •#*,';, whereas it formerly took weeks »..#• his rounds in the old co9ChlsJ it now takes a matter of Langbein intends to live in retiitßHw*;' at Stoke. , a|B i Among the visitors at the , P. Show at Nelson last week J. A. Bottrell, of Blenheim, VfljMs' t spite hiß 90 odd years is as many a man much his junior the Nelson "Mail"). Mr BotMl'Mp in. the Waimeas in his younfff Pjro,and lot- a time was empltfjW wlf old Brightwater Flour Hill <U)fl 4 » , xv at Voucher's Mill at then went to Australia, whci* «6>Sr7s-. a number of years before rertttWWTry Nelson. Thirty-seven yfcM# went to Marlborough, where «e M« sided ever since. In his y<>" n S*'' „jh' Mr Bottrell was a keen cridpttKi although now past the playiflg he retains tho greatest intwew game, as well us in other WtwMwrjjjV sport. Mr Bottrell is the father of W. T. Bottrell, president of tbe£ u y terbury Chamber of Commeice, w remembered in Nelson as ® psw»J cricketer many years ago. Ifel Canon J. R, Wilford, Christchureli to-morrow to England, was visited by rep«f?S tives of the Friends of St. ® e ®"®L evening, who left for him a U money, with a written raquest buy himself a chair for lu« J * Hbme. Thov also asked that £ -wfj,'"' plate, inscribed, ''Canon J, , lord, with best wishes from the - of St. George, Christohurch, land," which was enolosed, ™ P upon the chair. Canon W.lfofJS received a letter from tho, WW-*-of St. George's Hospital, st« ; "God speed" on his voyage, pressing very deep feeimgs tion for him personal!}, ana « tude for all ho has done /<*"?[ seP . pitai. There will bo a Vice to Canon Wilford m the MJJ , cli.anol to-mon-ow at /.30 jje ho himself will bo the ce A jij will afterwards any faretfeu " * friends on the roof of St. George