Personal Items

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21084, 8 February 1934, Page 8

Personal Items

Sir Philip Game, Governor of New South Wales, and Lady Game, a niece of Sir Henry and Lady Wigram, Park terrace, arrived from the north yesterday morning to spend a week's holiday in Christchurch. Dr. P. Clennell Fenwick, Dominion Chief Commissioner of Boy Scouts, has left for the West Coast to inspect scout troops. Mr E. C. Rawnsley, district manager for the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society, has returned from a trip to the West Coast. Captain G. F. Yerex, who has been staying at the New City Hotel after making a survey of a portion of the deer country in the Southern Alps, will leave to continue his sur- j' vey work this morning. Messrs J. T. Thompson (Melbourne), general manager for the .Australasian Temperance and General Mutual Life Society, and C. H. Hudson (Wellington), resident secretary, are visiting Christchurch. A welcome was extended to two new members, Messrs W. W. Scarf! and J. Liggins, at a meeting of the general committee of the Canterbury and West Coast Centre of the St. John Ambulance Association last evening.

Mr P. Selig will leave on Sunday for Hanmer Springs, where he will attend the annual meetings of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association and the New Zealand branch of the Empire Press Union.

The engineer to the Lyttelton Harbour Board (Mr P. W. Fryer) was granted leave by the board yesterday to enable him to attend the annual conference of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers, to be held at Dunedin from February 19 to February 24.

Mr H. Tonkinson, a member of the Indian Civil Service, accompanied by his wife, is visiting Christchurch on holiday. He ■will go to the Hermitage from here and then to Queenstown, and will later visit Auckland, leaving there for England via the United States of America.

A welcome back to the board table was extended by the chairman (Mr W. G. Gallagher) at the meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board yesterday to Captain H. Monro, who went to Great Britain to supervise the building of the steamer Breeze, and to Mr H. M. Chrystall, who had been in Victoria for eight months.

Mr T. A. Maskew, formerly of the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, returned this week from Australia by the Monowai after a long visit to his daughter, Mrs F. H. Cowper (Melbourne). Following a short stay with his two younger daughters in Rangiora and Domett, Mr Maskew proposes leaving by the Ruahine on March 3 on a six months' visit to England.

Mr R. A. Falla, ornithologist at, the Auckland War Memorial Museum, is at present in Christ-; church, and is staying with Mr E. F.* Stead, of Riccarton, with whom he is carrying out ornithological WQrkj near Lake Ellesmere. A visit to thek lake was made last Sunday, and it isrlx probable that Mr Stead and Mr Falla will go out again to-day. Mr Falla will return north on Saturday evening.

Reference was made by the chair- f man of the Lyttelton Harbour Board I. at its meeting yesterday to the loss H sustained by Mr Gilbert Huston, the J senior attendant at the board's elec- * trie light station, through the death of his wife. A motion of sympathy with Mr Huston and his family was carried.

The Lyttelton Harbour Board yesterday granted Mr G. S. Morris, chief and superintending engineer of the dredge Canterbury, six months' leave of absence on full pay as from March 5 next, and on expiry of that leave he will retire oil superannuation. The rearrangement of the crew of the dredge was referred to a special committee, consisting of the chairman (Mr W. G. Gallagher), and Messrs E. J. Howard, M.P., F. E. Sutton, W. T. Lester, and Captain H. Monro. Sir James Grose, on the authority of the rector of Townsville, roust have been an exceedingly useful and active church member. In offering Sir James congratulations on the dignity of knighthood recently conferred upon him, the rector wrote in a Townsville publication that when as a visitor he first arrived in Townsville in 1894, Sir James was teller at the Bank of New South Wales branch in that city. Privately he was also churchwarden, secretary, and treasurer of the church, organist, and Sunday school superintendent. "As a matter of fact," the rector added, "he was the mainstay of the parish." And then the writer shows how Sir James Grose was instrumental in the appointment of the rector as incumbent of St. Peter's, a position he will have held for 39 years next March.