Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20807, 17 March 1933, Page 10

Personal Items.

Th« Prime Minister, too St S„W. Horbcs, is expected to ieSw *' Wellington from Cheviot on K l * Tho Son. J. A. Young fe return from the north to-day. TkT» R. Masters is at present in and will rot urn early nex fc Hon. C. E. Macmillan left WdlLi! 8 , for the south last night for * twfS' the Central Otago gofafields. fiTJ* open large excavation scheme ,; Nokomai to-morrow and will th«n » dertako a tour of the surrounding JJ?» districts, returning to Dunedin oat nesday.—Press Association. a * Mr Justice Blair mil return to W«l» lingtoa this evening. 4*£ A^. F - (^ < lndia ) w ctayio. ' at the Clarondoii Hotel. * Sir Lindo Ferguson, of Dunedin »m among the passengers from the iortb by the ferry steamer yesterday.. Mr E. S. Brittenden, district railwav traffic manager, Christchurch. is virit ing the West Coast. ' , VUII,

Dr. H. T. D. Acland and Dr w Newlands arrived by the ferry steamer from the north yesterday morning. Mr G. W. Reid, a member of tb» Railways Board, arrived from WolW ton yesterday, and went on to DnaL din. Messrs A. E. Wilson (Auckland) Rowc, J. R. Trayes, C. Millar (WW ton), and J. Fowell (Dunedin) are stay.! ing at the New City Hotel. Mr W. G. Wohlmann, of Police, arrived in tcrday, and is staying at the Oforen. dou Hotel.

Mr P. R. Climie, a member bf tl» Unemployment Board, returned from Wellington by the ferry steamer yoj. terday morning. Mr Justice Kennedy in expected t» arrive from Dunedin on Monday even, ing to preside at the seMJons of iHt Supremo Court in Christchurcll, He will probably be in Chrifctchurch fioir I fortnight.

After 20 years' service with the De, i fence Department, 10 of which have' been spent on the West Coast, w Kergeant-Mnjor L. R. Sbuttlfcffijtth lias resigned, in order to take up farming. The Rev. 51. A. Rugby Pratt, put president of the Methodist Church and connexional secretary, is, on "inedical orders, taking a fortnight's rest. H« hopes to resume his duties at the con* nexional office by the end of the month. Major A. E. Wcarnc. general man- ' ager of Router's, fcJydnov, who, with his wife, has been staying with M» Wearne's parents, the Rev. T. Bfee an 4 Mrs Fee, Opawa, sailed from Wellington yesterday for Sydney.

A vote of condolence with the secretary (Mr A. Truman) in the recent death of his wife, was passod at Hu meeting of the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Superannuated 3*id.-/ lie Servants' Association yesterday. Dr. L. G. Bell, M.8., Ch.B., bc|s bese. appointed medical superintendent at tit Grey Hospital in succession to J>r. J> F. C. Moore, who has resigned, but trite ~ has been appointed chief surgeon ifw the hospital, says a Press Association message from Greymouth. '" ]■ Mr R. S. Black, Mayor of ■ passed through Christchurch ye#ejijd|f t ; evening on his way to Wellington » f interview the Minister for Employftwptf',' and the Unemployment Board ■' on the subject of the relief of raw\ ploynient in the cities in the approach', ing winter. ' •-.- '■#&£[ Mr George Sash, who ha» hef*" - Mayor of Waimate for 10 years,-'hlttS 1 consented to stand for the postal;.. again. He lias b*en IT years a MM- 1 -' 1 ber of the South Canterbury HosJKt»Y Board. Mr and Mrs Dash wereie- * cently given ft complimentary residents. The General Committee of the Cm- ] terbury Agricultural and Pariaali ''j Association, in its annual report, ie- i fers to the death of Mr H. iS. Pery* ! man, who filled the presidential 'ojfto ' j in 1907. "Mr Poryman nmmtwWd,, ; his interest in the association tigfrt, ] up to the time of his death, hftVjajg'v'' been chairman of two BUb-QDBitQsttti \ thte year," says the report. -' . ,j Guests at the United Service Hotel I include Messrs W. F. Prentice, &J» j Aikins (Auckland), G. R. ClaritO, JU 'J S. Pierce, E. P. Mycr (Melbourne), L. R. Bill, W. Henderson, J. M. t Wilkie, H. G. Williams (Wflftarton), *'j H. A. Flavell, J. Begg, C. MwrifcA ; K. O. Hazlett (Dunedin), and W, Willis (London). *Vr ,^ At the half-voarly meeting 'CfJ 1 !* Waikart Collie Club Mr Jas. j Backthorne road, Christchdreh/JWir;,;! elected a life member. Mr WwJKfi was one of the founders of the flhfc'glfv first chairman in 1889. It is Mfifflffiff that Mr Douglas and Mr Bon, also of Christchurch, we wn rotary, are the solo Burvivors M.lfflfc] founders of the club. ' ''£?tf'' At a gathering at Auckland, #f Rev. W. A. Sinclair, who. has MWJPP .■ after 14 years' service as miwiW*§, ' secretary for the Methodist Chwtfef \ ; New Zealand, and has now wjffliTJv' supernumerary, was presented Rev. B. I>. Patehett with a cta#N»v reeojmition of his work. Mr anJ-Wf.;!, Sinclair, who are well known *»•<¥,"• ' terbury, will leave Aucklanart, W j end of March on a visit to Ba||jl^JJ»^ Captain A. C. Clayton, the Royal Sussex Regiment, flagS*/', in Wellington on Wednesday land by the Rangitanc. H« vWyAuckJander, and has been away mm . the Dominion since 1914. <*Kf*„.' Clayton was stationed on the. MBjL; frontier in the Peshawar district «|g* :', 18 months ago, when he retired \Js** f ;t the Army. He took part in the operations in that district, »nfl'sS|p,: as liaison officer with the Force on the frontier. Advice. has been received & IrajE&ii land from the Admiralty that tjs,jWM> of Commander E. Lyon BertbftyKi naval officer in charge of the Dcwfflg £ ; Naval Base, and captain of *ffl#jPs>= ship H.M.S. Philomel, will W»?f; September. Commander Bertaeta W- 1 licved Commander Nelson CIqW«J£J in 1931, and when ho leaves,»? *gp< land in September he will two and a half years in Devonport. No'advico has yet »f B J3| ceived of the appoiniment of cessor. V^ 1 ; At a meeting of. the general tive of the Christchurch W«g-«ji Men's Club, held last evening, *Jflr.fcf of sympathy was passed with t&fSffi ttives of a very esteemed «nwn M F. Moran. The president, Mr»|i* rl Cooper, said that all regretted the club had sustained by the IHJu of Mr Moran, who had ready and willing to give Ins at club entertainments, also o» sions when the. club's concert party visited charitable tions, giving entertainments. lar motion Avas carried at the meeting of the executive of ** mond Working Men 's Club. "i^ff