Personal Items

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21239, 10 August 1934, Page 14

Personal Items

Mr P. C. Webb, M.P. for Buller, was a passenger from Wellington by the Rangatira yesterday morning. Mr David Jones, chairman of the Meat Producers' Board, returned to Christchurch by the Rangatira yesterday morning.

Mr M. R. Tennet, dairy instructor, Christchurch, who has been appointed grader-in-charge at Bluff, left for Dunedin yesterday morning. Mr J. J. A. Howie, of Auckland, returned by the Aorangi on Monday, from an eight months' business tour of Europe and the Orient. • Mr J. H. Blackwell, chairman of directors of the North Canterbury Sheep Farmers' Freezing Company, left for Auckland last evening.

At the meeting of the Economics Society a resolution was passed con-i gratulating Mr W. Stewart, who was a foundation member of the society, on his appointment as Valuer-Gen-eral.

Mr G. F. Davis, of Sydney, chairman of directors of the Davis Gelatine Company of Australia, Ltd., and associated companies, is visiting Christchurch, and is staying at the United Service Hotel. Mr Davis will remain in the city for more than a Week. Messrs W. R. Carey and' F. W Johnston, of the Canterbury Automobile Association, will attend the annual meeting of the North Island Motor Union in Napier at the end of next week, as well as a special meeting of motorists' organisations called to consider the proposed new regulations.

Judge F. S. Schnack, a district magistrate from Honolulu, who is on a tour of New Zealand with his family, arrived in Christchurch yesterday and is staying at the United Service Hotel. He will leave for Wellington this evening, and will tour the North Island before sailing on the Aorangi for Honolulu on August 21. The Rev. Stanley T. Nicholls, formerly of Te Kuiti, who has been abroad for many years, returned to Auckland by the Aorangi on Monday. Mr Nicholls has been in charge of the leading Presbyterian church at Picton, Nova Scotia, but now expects to make his home in New Zealand.

A unanimous decision to extend a call to the Rev. A. Bryan Kilroy, M.A., minister of St. Paul's Church, Oamaru, was made by the annual meeting of the congregation of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Wellington. The church has been vacant since the Rev. R. J. Howie, B.A. left in April to accept the charge of Malvern, Melbourne.—Press As* sociation.

Mr J. Stokes, deputy superintendent of the New Brighton Volunteer Fire Brigade, has received notice from Auckland, that having passed all necessary examinations he automatically becomes an associate member of the Fire Brigades Institute of New Zealand. It is understood that Mr Stokes is the first volunteer fireman in Canterbury to qualify for membership of the institute.