Personal Items

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21308, 30 October 1934, Page 10

Personal Items

The Minister for Public Works, the Hon. J. Bitchener. who went south on Saturday morning to attend the opening of the Waitaki hydro-electric scheme, spent the week-end at his home in Waimatc and returned to Wellington by the steamer express last evening. The Rev. D. Gardner Miller, who has been spending a holiday in Napier, will return to Christchurch on Thursday morning. Mr C. J. Pugslev. New Zealand manager of the Southern Cross As-, surance Company. Ltd., will arrive from Wellington this morning o; business visit to Canterbury. The Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Beil, M.L.C., was a passenger for Wellington by the steamer express evening. The Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., returned I to Wellington by the steamer express last evening. A motion of sympathy with C:. H. W. Wise in the death of hj: = brother, Mr H. T. Wise, was passed at the meeting of the Riccartun Borough Council last evening. Mr C. J. Lockie, for 10 years countant at the Whangarei Post Office, has been promoted to th» position of post office inspector. wr!i headquarters at Christchurch. Mr E. Abbey Jones, managing dnector of the '"Southland News," Invercargill, passed through Chns - - church last night on his way to Wellington. He will return to Christchurch on Thursday. Mr A. B. Lane, manager of the United Press Association, Wellington, who spent the week-end in Christchurch, returned to Wellington by last night's steamer express. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr G. H. Mason, a former registrar of Canterburv College, was passed at a meeting of the college council yesterday afternoon. Sir Walter Stringer, chairman the War Pensions Appeal Board, left Christchurch last evening for Auckland, where the sittings of thi board will begin to-morrow morning. Mr P. G. Bamford. of the staff of the Canterbury College School of Engineering, was granted leave of absence for a period next year, during which he will visit England, at a meeting of the Canterbury College Council yesterday afternoon. Dr. H. G. Denham. Professor P. H. Pcwell, Professor J. Shelley, and Professor L. G. Pocock left for Wellington last evening to attend a meeting of the Academic Board of the University. Mr J. W. Beanland, who has just returned from a visit to Great Britain, was given a warm welcome back to the city at a meeting of the Christchurch Citizens' Association last evening. Mr W. H. E. Flint, chairman of directors of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Ltd., and also of Hay's Ltd., who has been abroad for several months, reached Auckland yesterday hv Niagara. He will arrive in Christchurch to-moi-row morning. At the meeting of the Christchurch Unemployment Committee vesterday the chairman, Cr. E. H. Andrews, expressed the gratification of members at the restoration tc. health of Mr J. S. Kelly, a member of "The Press" reporting stafT, and welcomed him to the meeting. At a meeting of the Canterbury College Council yesterday afternoon. a motion of sympathy was passed with the relatives of the late Colonel Hugh Stewart, who was foimerly professor of classics at thrcollege. I Dr. Sydney H. Nicholson, organiser of the Church Musical Society, land formerly organist and choirjmanter at Westminster Abbey, wfil : arrive in Wellington from Sydney jto-day, and is expc-*ed in Christchurch to-morrow morning. In the [evening he will at St. Luke's- ; church, and on Thursday evening he iwill speak on choir music at the | Cathedral after the dedication festi- ; val service. A motion recording the society's appreciation of the long and faithful service of Mr Alfred Marshall was carried yesterday at the sixtysecond annual meeting of shareholders in the Mutual Benefit, Building and Investment Society of Canterbury (Permanent). Mr Marshall, who was secretary of the society for 29 years, retired last May. In moving the adoption of the report and balance- ! sheet the chairman of directors, Mr W. C. Bean, said Mr Marshall was a faithful and wise steward, whose integrity was of the highest order. A portrait of Professor R. J. Scott, presented to Canterbury College by old students of the School of Engineering, was accepted by the college council at its meeting yesterday afternoon. The portrait, which was painted by Mr A. F. Nicoll, will be hung in the School of Engineering as a memorial Professor Scott. Congratulations arc extended. in the annual report of the St. Bede's College Old Boys' Association, to the Revs. Dr. Geaney and Fathers A. L. Burger and J. Dignan on the attainment of the silver jubilee of their ordination and to the Rev. Fathers Walsh and Harrison, old boys of the college, on their recent ordination in Rome, as welj as the Rev. Fathers Duggan and Gorinski on their rr.-il-liant scholastic successes.

There were more than 30 children at the Mount Somers School, which has a total roll of 52, absent through sickness last week, and the school has now been closed indefinite'.". Special classes are beinp held :< r those pupils who are sitting for proficiency certificate.