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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21355, 24 December 1934, Page 12

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Mr P. Fraser, M.P., arrived from Wellington yestsrday morning. Mr T. C. Brash, secretary to the Dairy Produce Board, arrived by the Wahine yesterday morning. Mr E. Page. S.M., of Wellington, was among the passengers by the Rangatira from the North Island on Saturday morning. Mr Colin Lamb has been recently appointed assistant architect to the British Building and Construction Company, Hampstead, London. Mr T. Carr Enright (Auckland) arrived from the north yesterday morning to spend Christmas with relatives in Christchurch. , Sir Charles Statham, Speaker ol the House of Representatives, was a passenger from the North Island by the Rangatira on Saturday morning. Mr C. W. R. Dart, M.A., of the staff of the Geelong Grammar School, Australia, is visiting relatives in Nelson. Flying Officer C. T. Jarman, of Wellington, a member of the Royal Air Force, who is home on leave from Khartoum, arrived in Christchurch by aeroplane on Friday evening. Mr C. H. Weston, K.C., has been appointed to act as Consul of the Netherlands at Wellington for the Dominion of New Zealand, its dependencies, and the mandated territory of Western Samoa. Mr H. E. Holiday, who for the last two years has been assistant to the inspector for New Zealand of the Bank of New South Wales, has been appointed sub-manager of the London office of the bank. Mr Holiday will leave New Zealand early next month and depart from Sydney for London in February. Among the passengers to arrive at Wellington to-day by the Makura is Mr Malcolm Levinson, of Perth. Mr Levinson is president of the Italian Circle of the University Club, Perth, and is also a talented violinist." He will be the guest of Miss Moss, of Rongotai. Information has been received by cablegram that Mr Allen Wellbrock, of Christchurch, has passed both the practical and theory examinations for the associateship of the Royal College of Music, London. Mr Wellbrock has been a student at the college since the beginning of this year, under a scholarship awarded in New Zealand, studying piano and organ, and he will remain in London for some time. Flying Officer R. L. Kippenberger of the Royal Air Force arrived in New Zealand on Friday on six weeks' leave. He will spend his holiday with his parents at Waimate and with his brother, Mr H. K. Kippenberger, of Rangiora. Flying Officer Kippenberger left New Zealand six ycr.rs ago and this is the first occasion on which he has visited New Zealand. Mr William Watson, of Wellington, the veteran banker, celebrated his eighty-eighth birthday on Friday, when he was "at home" to his many friends at his residence, The Terrace. The gathering, which was quite infomal, was largely attended, and Mr Watscn was warmly congratulated upon his excellent state of health and the lightness with which the weight of years restj upon him. Mr W. Dunningham, who will retire at the end of the year from his position as manager of Bellamys and officer in charge of Parliament Buildings, was met recently by the staffs of the Legislative departments. Appreciation of Mr Dunningham's services and his unfailing courtesy to all with whom he had been associated was expressed by the clerk of the House of Representatives M" T. D. H. Hall, the chief law draftsman, Mr J. Christie, the chie? librarian of the General "Assembly Library, Dr. G. H. Scholefield, and by Mr R. N. Nixon, who will succeed Mr Dunningham. On behalf of the combined staffs Mr Hall presented Mr Dunningham with a wireless set.