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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21533, 24 July 1935, Page 10

Personal Items

Mr PeW McSkimming, M.P.. passed through Christchurch last evening on his way north. Bishop West-Watson returned to Christchurch from/ the ■fH sst Coast yesterday. Messrs J. A. Lee. MJP.. and- W. Nash, M.P., were passengers from. Wellington in the Rangatira yesterday morning. Mr Justice Callan will be appointed permanently to the Supreme Court bench on July 31, when Mr Justice Herdman retires.— Press Association. ' Mr H. Holland, M.P., left the city for Wellington last night to attend the annual meeting of the National War Funds Council. He expects to return to-morrow. 'Mr Alan Norrie, of the South British Insurance Company, Wellington, has been transferred to the Sydney office of the company. Pilot Officer Hugh Dawson, an Auckland man, who joined the Royal Air Force last year, has been ta* nSs ferred to India, and will leave England in September. • Dr. E. B. Reilly, of the staff, of the dental department, at the Christchurch Hospital, arrived back in Christchurch . yesterday. .after a year's study in the United, States. He left during the day for his home in Timaru.

I Captain T. H. Salvesen, who is m command of the Norwegian steamer ! Aelybryn, which arrived at Lyttelton yesterday from Gulf of Mexico ports was in command of the steamer Penybryn when that vessel stood by the passenger liner Tahiti as she sank in mid-Pacific in August, 1930. On the present voyage Captain Salvesen is accompanied by his wife and daughter. Mention of the deaths during the year of Messrs David Sykes and Alfred Mann ire, two valued members of the library, was made at the annual meeting of the Spreydon Public Library last evening, and, as a mark of respecf, all present stood in silence. Mr Sykes was one of the library's foundation officers, and Mr Manhire a former Mayor of the old borough of Spreydon. At the annual meeting of the Christchurch Rotary Club held yesterdav, the following officers were elected for the ensuing 12. months: —President, Mr L. G. K. Steven; vice-president, Mr E. Hitchcock; ser-geant-at-arms, Mr W. G. Fernie; secretary and treasurer, Mr S. W. Jameson; auditor, Mr Denys Hoare; board of directors, Messrs S. G. Holland, A. L. B, Ross, Irving Sladen, L. J. Lewis, and;K. B. Bain. A very hearty welcome was extended to Rotarian P. Stanley Foster,.the newlyelected Governor of the Rotary District of New Zealand, on his return from the Rotary Convention in Mexico.

Tribute was paid to the work of Mr Fi D Waller, a former headmaster of the West Christchurch D.'stric£ High School at the reunion dinner of the schobl's Old Boys' Association last night* Mr C. D. Sheppard, a vice-president of the club, remarked upon the undiminishing interest Mr Walter had always shown in the school's activities. It was an interest that had not ceased with Mr Waller's retirement, and much as the school already owed to him, he was ready always to help it yet more. • . "

Mr Brian O'Rorke, who was entrusted with the whole of the interior decoraticin of the new Orient liner Orion, constructed by VickersArmstrongs, L-td., Barrow-in-Fur-ness, has done much distinguished work of this character ashore. He was born in New Zealand, in 1901, took degrees in engineering .and architecture at Cambridge and the five years' course at the Architectural Association, and won various Architectural Association and Royal Institute prizes. He has worked in London offices under Messrs Easton and Robertson, who carried out a good deal of the modernisation of the Savoy and Berkeley Hotels, and Mr Charles Holden. His work on his own account during the last four years has included country houses and alterations to and decorative schemes for several London houses.