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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21019, 22 November 1933, Page 8

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Mr James Boyd (Kaikoura) ij staying at the Hotel Federal. Mr J. O'Brien, M.P. for Westland, arrived from the North Island yesterday. Mr J. H. Hall left last night for Wellington to take over the editorial chair of the "Dominion." Major T. J. King, Director of Ordnance, arrived from the north yesterday morning. Mr R. E. McDougall returned to Christchurch yesterday after a holiday visit of several weeks to Australia. The Right Rev. W. R. Parpell, Bishop of the Moravian Church of New Zealand, arrived from the north yesterday morning. Mr A. P. Paitry has been chosen town clerk and treasurer of the borough of Northcote from 37 applicants. Mr A. L. Smith, formerly stationmaster at Greymouth, has taken up his duties as railway goods agent at Christchurch. Mr H. H. Sterling, chairman of the New Zealand Railways Board, passed through Christchurch yesterday on his way to the south on departmental business. Mr D. V. Wilson, secretary to Duckworth, Turner, and Co., Ltd., who has been on a business visit to Australia, is expected to return to Christchurch to-day. Guests at Warner's Hotel include Messrs Calder Mackay, G. Western (Auckland), J. A. Pinnington, J. R. Clark (Wellington), E. W. Spencer (Reefton), and L. D. Stanbury (South Canterbury). Recent arrivals at the United Service Hotel include Messrs H. W. Townsend (Chicago), G. Todd (Dunedin), L. V. Ellis (Wellington), A. H. Nash (Adelaide), and R. Linklater (Palmerston North). Messrs W. S. Trevor, J. M. Doak (Wellington), A. Williams (London), E. R. Smith (Dunedin), R. Bradley (Auckland), and C. A. S. Hind (Timaru) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Guests registered at the New City Hotel include Messrs M. Steinberg (Auckland), J. Craig, E. L. Pocock, H. Roberts, and J. R. Townsend (Wellington), J. B. Robertson (Dunedin), and R. Stark (Oamaru). Mr F. D. Kesteven, president of the Canterbury Rowing Association, was unable to be present at the meeting of that body last evening because of illness, and a motion expressing sympathy with him and the hope that he would make a speedy recovery was carried. Mr L. G. Bowen, former membership secretary to the Wellington Young Men's Christian Association, who has been for the last 10 years in the United States of America, will return to New Zealand on December 11, and, with his wife, will tour New Zealand, giving lectures upon different phases of American life. Private advice has been received in Wellington that Dr. F. Furkert, son of Mr F. W. Furkert, late Engineer-in-Chief of the Pubiic Works Department, has passed his final examination at the Royal College of Surgeons, London. His success at the age of 26 years is noteworthy, and follows a line performance in passing the prims»v examination only three months after his arrival in England. Dr. Furkert has been acting as a house surgeon at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. He intends to return to New Zealand after a year or two more in England.