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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21244, 16 August 1934, Page 10

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I Mr P. Borthwick arrived from th* ! north yesterday morning. a " j Mr Stronach Paterson, of ty e v lington, was a passenger for «. North Island last evening. e Mr A. Beck will leave to-day f or Greymouth after a short visit ta Christchurch. Colonel. G. J. Smith was a p M senger from Wellington by the Maori yesterday morning. Mr B. E. H. Whitcombe, president of the New Zealand Booksellers' Association, left for Wellington last evening. Mr J. R. Lister will leave to-day for Greymouth to judge the elocutionary sections of the West Coast competitions. Motions of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr J. Stevenson and the late Mr J. Douglas were passed by the Canterbury Sheep Owners' Union at the annual meeting last evening. A motion congratulating Mr W, Stewart, formerly Commissioner of Crown Lands for Canterbury, on his appointment as Valuer-General, was passed by the Canterbury Sheep Owners' Union at the annual meetling last evening. ! Mr F. W. Johnston, president of !the South Island Motor Union, and Mr W. R. Carey, president of the Canterbury Automobile Association, left last evening for Napier to attend a meeting of the executive of the North Island Motor Union on Friday. Mr L. Russell, who is well known through a long association with the Goldberg Advertising Agency, has left Wellington to take over an appointment, with the "Taranakl Herald," New Plymouth. Mr Graeme Burns, an old boy of Christ's College, and now a student at the medical school of the University of Otago, has been elected secretary of Knox College Students' Association. The Otago Education Board yesterday unanimously re-elected as chairman Mr James Wallace, who has been chairman for 16 years.— Press Association. Mr H. P. Bridge was re-elected the representative of the Christchurch branch on the Town Planning Institute of New Zealand at a meeting of the branch last evening. At a meeting of the New Zealand Board of Directors of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited, held this week, Mr A. E. Cooper, of Messrs Sims, Cooper and Company (N.Z.) Ltd., was elected a New Zealand director of the New Zealand Shipping Company Limited. Mr C. V. Fife. M.Sc., who for the last year has been holding a relieving position in the soil chemistry department of the Massey Agricultural College, Palmerston North, has now been appointed to a lectureship. A resolution of sympathy with Mr J. S. Kelly, of the reporting staff of "The Press" in his illness was carried by the Council of the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association at its last meeting. Members expressed the hope that Mr Kelly would speedily be restored to health. V* Motions of sympathy with relatives of Mr H. J. Crofts, who was. a prominent racing cyclist, and with Mr J. M. Coffey, a member of the centre, in the loss of his father, were carried at a meeting of the North Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Athletic, Cycling and Axemen's Union last evening. Professor Hugh Stewart, principal of University College, Nottingham, arrived by the Akaroa on a brief visit to the Dominion. From 1913 to 1926 he was professor of classics at Canterbury College, with the exception of the war years, during which he commanded the Second Battalion of the Canterbury Regiment. Professor Stewart will spend three or four wee Irs in New Zealand before returning to England via Canada.—Press Association.