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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21465, 6 May 1935, Page 10

Personal Items

The Postmaster-General, the Hon. Adam Hamilton, was a passenger from Wellington by the Rangatira on Saturday morning. Sir Benjamin Fuller arrived in Christchurch from Wellington on Saturday morning. Mr A. T. Donnelly returned to Christchurch from Wellington by the Rangatira on Saturday morning. The Hon. F. Waite, M.L.C.. was a passenger from Wellington by the Rangatira on Saturday morning. Mr W. J. Sim has returned to Christchurch from Wellington. Tomorrow he will go to Timaru to attend the Supreme Court sessions. Mr H. D. Andrews has been elec- r ted synodsman for St. Luke's church for four years. He has held the ' position for some years. Mr S. S. Dean has been re-elec-ted chairman of the management committee of the New Zealand Rugby Union. Mr G.'F. Merson, managing director of G. F. Merson, Ltd.. Edinburgh, arrived in Christchurch yesterday from the north. He will leave for Dunedin on Thursday. His Honour Mr Justice Johnston will leave for Timaru to-day, to conduct sittings of the Supreme Court there. lie will return to Christchurch at the end of the week, Mr A. J. McEldowney, general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, will leave to-day to spend a few days in North Canterbury on business for the Young Men's Christian Association. . Mr D. I. Macdonald, secretary to the Canterbury Employers' Association, returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning from Grey mouth, where he attended a sitting of the Conciliation Council. Messrs A. E. McPhail. J, K. Moloney, and E. V. Phillips returned from Wellington on Saturday morning, after attending the annual meeting of the New Zealand Rugby Union. The Rev. Rodger Tempest, who has been the representative of the parish of St. Mark's. Wellington, in Melanesia since 1 1916, has intimated ♦hat for -health reasons he will shortly have to relinquish his work in the mission field. Mr Fred Knight, who has been clerk of the Magistrate's Court in Wellington for the last four and a half years, has received notice of his transfer to a similar position in Auckland. Mr C. W. Earle, president of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association lof New Zealand, who spent last week in Christchurch on business, returned to Wellington by Saturday | night's steamer express. Because of pressure of other business, Mr P. R. Harman has resigned from the position of secretary to the South Island Motor Union. Mr Harman has held the position since the union was started in 1920. He is manager of the South Island Motor Union Mutual Insurance Association. A presentation of a conductor's baton was made by General Evangeline Booth to Maior H. Goffin. who conducted the Salvation Army i Bands during her stay in Wellington. ' During the recent congress the General picked up a baton,- and when told it was Major Goffin's, she said he would have a better one before she left Wellington. A presentation, of a fountain pen and propelling pencil was made to Mr W. J. Montjoy, of Wellington, secretary to the New Zealand Coach and Motor-Body Builders' Industrial Association -of Employers, by Wellington members at the annual meeting of the association in Christchurch on Saturday. The president, Mr D. 11. Taylor, spoke highly- of Mr Montjoy's services. - • / KAIPARA SEAT * DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE ANNOUNCED [THE PRfiSS Specie Service. 1 AUCKLAND, May 5. * Mr J. Caughley, formerly Director of Education, has announced his candidature for the Kaipara seat in the interests of the Democrat party. The sitting member is the Minister for Finance, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates. The other candidate is Mr W. Grounds, who is standing as an i independent.