Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20977, 4 October 1933, Page 8

Personal Items.

The Prime Minister, the -fit tr G. W. Forbes, remained yesterday receiving private 4*2* ! tions until late in the atterabare left by the ferry steamer from Lyltelton for Wellington til * Dr. F W. Hilgendorf and |v * H. Frankel were passenger" f Qr Y north last evening. ' a 9 Mr G. Sevicke Jones, who Ibeen on a visit to Australia has* turned to Christchurch. *" Mr C. F. Jones, of ChristcW left yesterday to take up a p^j^i l in Dunedin. * J,lva Messrs R. H. Rowe and g arrived from the north by uT Rangatira yesterday morning. 1) Messrs W. M. Holmes, M. c l>£ Taggart, and L. J. Clark (Weilfef ton) are staying at Warners Hotel* Mr Hubert Carter, who has \»Z giving concerts in the south, has "' turned to Christchurch. * l *

Messrs L. G. Hepburn (Ashbur ton) and P. T. Ash worth (Sydnevi are guests at the Royal Hotel. Messrs H. J. Grayson (Dunedin) B. Hereford, A. Gavey (Wellington! and W. Kirkham (Auckland) aL guests at the Clarendon Hotel.Mr G. A. Pascoe left for WcllLv. ton by the ferry steamer last iiwht to attend a meeting of the; Sden tific and Industrial Research Coiii> cil. Messrs K. W. McGauley, G. Hobertson, L. H. Labone, J. H, Wflkit (Wellington), C. S. Longstalf, R. B Rogers (Auckland), M. Greenwood (Hastings), and A. C. McCallum (Perth) are staying at the United Service Hotel. It was resolved at a meeting o? the Christchurch Suburban Cricket Umpires' Association last night to send a letter expressing sympathy with Mr E. King, chairman of the Suburban Cricket Association, in. the illness of his wife. Mr J. W. Harvey, who is Receiver of Land Revenue and chief clerk of the Hawke's Bay Lands and Survey Department, will shortly leave Napier for New Plymouth to fill similar positions in the Taranaki district. In welcoming Mr John Mac Gibbon to the annual meeting of the Canterbury Employers' Association last evening, Mr S. G. Holland extended the association's congratulations on Mr Mac Gibbon's election as vice-president of the Chamber • of Commerce.

Guests registered at the New City Hotel include Messrs H. Moss (Cape Town, South Africa), S. A. Smith (Sydney), N. S. Lawn, S. J. Anderson, H. Goodwin, R. Dowdall (Wellington), F. Keen (Dannevirke), J. T. Brady (Timaru), D. Singer (Auckland), and Captain C. J. Kerr (Geraldine). Mr H. T. Armstrong, M.P. for Christchurch East, is at present confined to bed. He arrived from Wellington on Saturday with a heavy list of engagements, but went on to the sick list at once. ,He hopes to be able to return to Wellington this evening to resume his Parliamentary duties. Mr L. T. Aschman, a member $ the literary staff of the ChrLstchurcS "Times" and "Star," has been appointed' to fill a vacancy on the head office staff of the.United Press Association, Wellington. Mr Aschman is a son of Mr C. T. Aschman, well known in Canterbury as a former headmaster of the Normal School, Christchurch, and now chairman of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College.'—Press Association. On Sunday the members of the choir of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, together with representatives of the congregation, met to say farewell to Mr H. Blakeley, who has been choirmaster during the last five years. Speaking on behalf of the choir, Mr Ernest Rogers referred to the friendly spirit and good harmony that prevailed and the great regret members felt at Mr Blakeley's departure for Auckland. Further eulogistic references to Mr Blakeley's work were made by Mr F. Anderson, Mr B. C. Burns, Mr Geo. Callender, and the Rev. Alan Watson. A leather music case and two books were given to the guest of the evening as mementoes from his friends in the congregation.