Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21377, 21 January 1935, Page 12

Personal Items.

The Prime Minister (the Itfc ttA^ Vi *ls GW. Forbes) arrived in cfife 1 church from the north on Saturday-' #1 morning. Mr Forbes on SafemSp- *$ attended the civic reception to tbk ' til Duke of Gloucester, the trottina ' iff meeting at Addington, and the din-" ner of the Canterbury Officers' Qub* in honour of General Sir Alexander !v$ Godley. Yesterday he spent thV '' 1" day at Taylor's Mistake. He will afc - '*''" ■ tend the children's demonstration aV -' - '' Lancaster Park to-day, and also the ' •' ceremony at Sandilands. In* jW. ~vj.; evening he will open the new club--rooms of the Pioneer Sports Chtf> "' ■. Mr Forbes will leave to-morrow for ; Hanmer Springs, where he will ex- - 'amine proposals for improvement of the tourist attractions of the centre, and will leave for Wellington that evening. „ On Thursday he will leave Wellington on a tour of inspection of native development "'' areas in the Taupo, Rotorua/aridL ''■* . Whakatane districts in his capacity •"•'■ as Minister for Native Affairs, and will return to Wellington about >' January 31. The Minister for Finance (the Rfc t Hon. J. G. Coates), who spent Friday afternoon and. Saturday in Christchurch, conferred on Saturday morning with members of the - : Canterbury Law Society on thV \» Government's proposal to establish a national mortgage corporation; Later he attended the civic recent tion to the Duke of Gloucester and ; the trotting meeting at Addington. - In the evening he left for Wellington.

Mr T. E. Y. Seddon was a passenger to Wellington by the steamer - express on Saturday, Mr E. A. R. Jones, a solicitor of Wellington, is visiting ,Christchurch at present.Mr A. D. Park, secretary to ~*&£'. • Treasury, and Mr B. C. Ashwin, alsoof the Treasury staff, left for Wel« lington on Saturday night Major-General Sir William L. H. Sinclair-Burgess arrived in Christchurch on Saturday morning, and is staying at Warner's HoteL Professor H. Belshaw and Dr. W. B. Sutch, of the secretarial and advisory -staff of the Minister for Finance (the Rt. Hon. J.'G. Coates), returned north on Saturday night. Captain O. Bevir, of H.M.S. Leith, paid a return call at the office of the Lyttelton Harbour Board > on Saturday morning, and was received by the chairman, Mr E. J. Howard, . M.P., and the secretary, Mr C E Clibboro. Sir John Randies, an ironmaster, who was for many years a member of the British House of Commons," accompanied by Lady Randies, arrived at Wellington by' the Remuera last evening. Sir John is on ft health trip, and will visit Rotorua. . —Press Association. Professor W. E. S. Turner, professor of glass technology at the , University of Sheffield, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Eemu~ era, accompanied by Mrs Turner. Although on a holiday, Professor Turner hopes to learn something of the glass industry in New Zealand. —Press Association. Mr Justice'Milher Stephen, a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and f0r.27 years an alderman of the-'City'of Sydney, is visiting Christchurch. v He will tour the South Island before returning to Australia. Mr S. Ritchie, conciliation, com? missioner, arrived from Invercar- - gill on Saturday. He will preside over a conciliation council in Christchurch to-day. The Rev. W. Bower Black, of -Auckland, formerly of St. Paul's Presbyterian Churchy Christchurch, will arrive from the north on Wednesday, and will spend some days | mountaineering in the Southern jAlps. t Mr A. O. Wilkinson will leave this evening on a business visit to the West Coast. From Hokitika he will travel by the aeroplane of Air Travel (N.Z.), Ltd., to the Franz r Josef Glacier. Mr Alex. Taylor, a prominent English business man who resides in Jersey, Channel Islands, is visiting Christchurch. He is engaged pn a study of conditions in New Zealand. Mr J. W. Beanland was unani- > mously elected president of the ' Christchurch Model Yacht Club at a -. special meeting of the club on Saturday. Mr T. R. Brodie, of the firm of. James Finlay and Company, established in Glasgow in 1750, is paying a business visit to Christchurcn. v Lieutenant David H. Graham, of Dunedin (New Zealand Headquarters staff Overseas Liaison) arrived in Christchurch on. Saturday to present an illuminated address from the Legion of Frontiersmen to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. He is a guest of Mr W. J. Le Cren, Murray place, Papanui.

The Rev. Donald Haultain, vicac of All Saints* Church, Nelson, is revisiting Christchurch, his native city, after an absence of nearly 20 years, on a holiday exchange with the Rev. H. T. York, of St. Peter's, Upper Riccarton. Mr... Haultain has spent most of the time in Austra/a, and has engaged in missionary work in East Africa. Before coming to Nelson Mr Haultain was Dean ot Bendigo, Victoria. On the occasion of his approaching marriage, Mr J. B. Blundell was met by. members of the staff of the several departments of the Evening Post" and presented with a canteen of cutlery. The presentation was made by the secretary (Mr W. L. Page), who referred to the high es teem in which Mr Blundell was held by his fellow-members of the stair. He wished him every happiness n &s married life. Mr BlundeJ in Feply, referred to the ships he had made during the psribd, he had been a member of the statt, and thanked those present for ,tne. very handsome presentation.