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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21290, 9 October 1934, Page 10

Personal Items

* Mr G. M. Hall, of Booth, Macdonald and Company. Ltd., left last night for the north, where he will remain for about three weeks. The Mayor, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M P has agreed to become a member of the Board of Trustees of the Port Hills-Akaroa Summit Road. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Dr. F. V. Bevan-Brown was carried by the meeting of High School Old Boys held last evening. Mr E. M. Taylor, structural engineering assistant on the staff of the Christchurch City Council, has resigned to continue his 6tudies in England. Cr. J. W. Bcanland, who has been absent on a tour of Great Britain for several months, is expected to arrive back in New Zealand during the last week in October. Mr H. D. Acland was electca president of the Canterbury Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at the first meeting of the newly-elected committee last evening. At a meeting of the executive of the Christchurch branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association held last evening a motion of sympathy was passed with the relatives of Dr. F V Bevan-Brown, whose death, it was slated, was largely the result of his war services. Cr E H. Andrews and Mr \ H Bridge, the City Land Surveyor will attend the annual meeting of the Town Planning Institute to represent the Christchurch City Council. The meeting will be held in Wellington on October 18. Sympathy with Mr Peter L. Davics in his illness was expressed last night at the meeting of the council of the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association. The registrar was instructed to write to Mr Davies wishing him a speedy recovery. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Colonel Hugh Stewart, a former president of the Christchurch branch of the Returned Soldiers' Association, was passed at the meeting of the executive of the association last evening.

Nominations for four directors on the New Zealand Wheat Growers Association closed yesterday afternoon. Messrs W. W. Mulholland. R. B. Meek, James Carr, and P. R. Talbot, who retired by rotation and offered themselves for re-election, were elected, as there were no further nominations.

Mr J. W. Huggins was appointed Chief City Inspector by the Christchurch City Council last night. Mr Huggins is senior inspector for health in the Public Health Department, Christchurch. For 10 years he was on the engineering staff of the Christchurch Drainage Board, and for 12 years he has been with the Health Department, during two years of which he has been senior inspector. He holds the certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute and the diploma of Sanitary Science. Professor R. Jack, who has completed 21 years in the chair of physics at the University of Otago, was honoured by the students of the physics classes at the end of the academic year, when he was then presented with a desk set suitably inscribed. Speakers said the fame of so many of Professor Jack's former pupils spoke for his abilities as a teacher, and they described him as a pre-eminent authority on his subject. In his reply Professor Jack thanked the class for their gift, and spoke of some of his more distinguished pupils, both in Britain and New Zealand. He referred with regret to the death of one of them. Professor J. W. Hinton, formerly professor of physics at tfae University of Colombo.