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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21257, 31 August 1934, Page 10

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Mr D. W. Westenra returned from tho north yesterday morning. Sir Charles Clifford arrived by the Rangatira yesterday. The Hon. L. M. Isitt, M.L.C., and the Hon. W. Hay ward, M.L.C., left last evening for Wellington. Mr G. E. F. Kingscote has been appointed consular agent for France m Christchurch, states last night's issue of the New Zealand Gazette. The Hon. T. Bloodworth, M.L.C., was among the passengers on the Rangatira which arrived from Wellington yesterday morning. Dr. James Lyon, examiner for Trinity College of Music, is staying at the Claivndon Hotel. He will remain in Christchurch until the end of September. Mr Eric H. Carew, of Studholrae street, Somerfield, has accepted a position with the Acetone Welding Company. He left for Napier this week.

Dr. C. E. Beeby returned to Christchurch yesterday after visiting Australia, where he was engaged in collecting information about the Australian Council of Educational Research. The Rev. L. McMaster, for the last eight years minister of St. Peter's Presbyterian Church, left last evening for the North Island. He has been appointed to the charge oi Onehunga, Auckland. Captain L. V. Morgan, R.N., has been appointed honorary naval aide-de-camp to the Governor-Gene-ral, in place of Captain C. SinclairThomson, R.N., su.ies a notice in last night's Gazette. Mr Justice Johnston will leave on Tuesday for the West Coast, where he will preside at sittings of the Supreme Court at Greymouth and at Westport. He will be away from the city about 10 days. Messrs J. R. Cuningham, Colin Mcintosh, and E. R. Caygill, members of the Mortgagors' Relief Commission, will leave for Greymouth on October 9 to conduct a sitting there. They will be accompanied by the secretary to the commission, Mr G. Howes. Mr C. S. Hammond, manager of the Timaru branch of Messrs Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., has been advised of his promotion to the Christchurch office of the company. Mr Hammond, who will be succeeded by Mr W. A. Fleming, of Ashburton, expects to leave Timaru towards the end oi" October to take up his new duties. Mr E. O. Sheild, of Wellington, who has been awarded the first Bishop Hadfield theological scholarship, will leave by the Ran* plane, sailing for England on Friday. The scholarship is tenable at Queen's College, Oxford, f<> l theological study in preparation for ordination as a minister of the Church of England, and Mr Sheu® will be absent, from New Zealand for at least two years. One of the conditions of the scholarship is thav each holder must serve five yea l " in the Wellington diocese if called upon to do so after his ordination.