Personal Items

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21124, 27 March 1934, Page 8

Personal Items

The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes) will visit Canterbury for Easter. Although he does not intend to occupy his time over the holidays with official business he has arranged to fly over the Lake Ellesmere area to investigate the practicability of a permanent drainage scheme there. On Saturday he will attend the Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting at Addington, and on Saturday evening he will be present at the Rangiora High School jubilee celebrations. Mr Forbes expects to return to Wellington on Tuesday evening.

Dr. J. Hight, rector of Canterbury College, will represent the college on the New Zealand Carnegie ©corporation advisory committee. Mr F. George was reappointed representative of the Riccartoa Borough Council on the Christchurch Domains Board, at a meeting of the council last night. The New Brighton Borough Council last evening passed a vote of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr Raymond Lawry, who was drowned at Sumner on Sunday. A motion of sympathy with Mr R. B Bunt, secretary of the Canterbury Football Association, in the loss of his father was passed at the annual meeting of the association last evening.

The annual meeting of the Canterbury Rugby Football League last night carried a motion of sympathy with the relatives of Mr E. Healey, a past-president of the league, who died recently. Mr L. E. Beavis, the representative of the Sumner sub-branch of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers* Association, was welcomed by the president, the Rev. F. T. Read, on attending the meeting of the executive of the association last night.

Mr M. Grimes, who has been manager of the local branch of the Singer Sewing Machine Company for the last 12 years, is severing his connexion with the coffrpany with the object of taking an extended holiday.

Congratulations to the Mayor, Mr D- G. Sullivan, M.P.. on his recent appointment as president of the Municipal Association were extended by the City Council in a resolution passed at the council's meeting last night.

At a recent meeting of the Board of Governors of Christ's College a resolution was passed placing on record their appreciation of the services rendered to the college by Dr. William Irving, for 14 years a fellow, and of the active interest he has taken in the affairs of the school ever since he left it in 1887.

Regret was expressed at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Football Association last evening at the absence through illness of the president, Mr P. L. Davies. The annual report extended the sympathy of the association to Mr Davies, who was subsequently elected a patron. Mr J. E. Jones, chairman of the management committee, was elected to succeed Mr Davies as president. The Canterbury University College Council, at its meeting yesterday, expressed its deep appreciation of "the work Professor Arnold Wall lias put into the Canterbury Museum herbarium, of which he has acted as honorary curator for more than 13 years. During this period he had shown marked enthusiasm and ability in maintaining the herbarium, in cataloguing and arranging the exhibits, and in procuring many additions to the collection. Professor Wall is shortly leaving Christchurch to live in Auckland.

At a daylight parade of the St. John Ambulance Brigade at headquarters on Saturday afternoon Mr W. Thompson, who has resigned from the position of station officer, was presented on behalf of the members of the brigade and of the staff of the St. John Ambulance Association at headquarters with a leather dispatch case. Mr Thompson has served as district officer, as an organiser, and latterly as station officer. The senior officer on parade, Lieutenant-Colonel F. \V. W. Dawson, corps surgeon, referred to the good work done by Mr Thompson, and at his request the lady corps superintendent, Mrs A. E. Fricker, made the presentation. Mr Thompson, in acknowledging the gift, referred to the happy time he had spent with the brigade, and to the many friends he had made while engaged on St. John ambulance work.