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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21334, 29 November 1934, Page 8

Personal Items

The Rev. J. K. Archer and the Rev. L. A. North were passengers from Wellington by the Maori yesterday morning. Mr H. H. Sterling, chairman of the Railways Board, was a passesger for Christchurch by the Maori yesterday morning. Mr H. T. Armstrong, M.P., wfej has conducted a series of meetings in the south, left last evening for the North Island, where he will hoM further meetings. A Gazette notice announces the promotion of Captain (and quartermaster) G. Peek, 3rd Field Ambulance, to major (and quartermaster) as from October 24, 1934. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Mr J. Quiil, a former member of the Halswell Amateur Athletic and Cycling Club, was passed at a meeting last evening of the Canterbury Amateur Cycling Centre. Messrs A. Caddick, president, and R. J. G. Collins, vice-president, of the Christchurch branch of the Wellington College Old Boys' Association, will leave for Wellington tonight to attend the jubilee celebrations of their former school. Mr T. H. Cape-Williamson, honorary director of the Metropolitan Belief Association's central depot, is at present a patient in the Lewishasi Hospital, suffering from a nervous breakdown. Ha is making satisfactory progress. Sympathy with Mr A. G. Cannons, officer in charge of the Department of Industries and Commerce in Christchurch in his illness, was expressed at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association last evening. Mr J. D. Hall has been elected a life member of the New Zealand Farmers' Union on the recommendation of the North Canterbury Executive of the union. Advice that the recommendation had been approved by the Dominion executive was received by the North Canterbury executive yesterday. A motion of svmpathy with Mr D. J. Hawke in the death of his eldest son was passed at a meeting of the North Canterbury Provincial Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union yesterday. Mr W. G. Morrison, 8.E., who formerlv lived in Christchurch, has been awarded the Telford Premium prize by the Institute of Civil Engineers,' London, for his technical paper on the Carlton Bridge, whicn was published by the institute recently. Mr A. S. Gaye, a member of ths British Phosphate Commission, is visiting Christchurch. Mr Gaye is on a tour of New Zealand in the interests of the commission, studying conditions in the Dominion, and will be in the city for some days before leaving for the north. He is staying at the United Servh - T-Vtcl. Mr W. E. Barnard, M.P. f° r Napier, left Auckland by the Aorangi for Sydney, where he will connect with a steamer for Japan. He expects to be back in New Zealand next February, probably a few weeks after the adjourned session of Parliament is resumed. During his travels he will enquire into trade possibilities with the East. He is accompanied by Mrs Barnard. Mr F. W. Marris, acting inspector of the Bank of New South Wales in New Zealand, who recently resumed duty after a long illness, has decided to retire at the end of December because of ill-health. Mr Marris has been 45 years in the service of the bank, which he joined in 1889 at Westport, and he has served practically the whole of his banking career in New Zealand. His first appointment as manager was to the Thames branch of the bank in 1904, and he was successively manager at Gore, . Palmerston North. Hastings, and Dunedin. In 1928 he was transferred from Dunedin to Wellington as assistant inspector. During the absence in England of Mr R. C. Addison, Mr Marris has been acting inspector of the bank in New Zealand. Mr A. H B. Jones, formerly manager of the Christchurch branch of the bank, who has been acting as assistant inspector at Wellington. has been appointed assistant inspector in succession to Mr Marris.