Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21578, 14 September 1935, Page 16

Personal Items

The Postmaster-General (the Hon. Adam Hamilton) arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning by the steamer express from Wellington. Mr Hamilton was the guest of the Canterbury branch of the National Political Federation at luncheon, and in the evening attended the annual social of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association. He will leave for Invercargill by the express this morning.

Mr J. E. Nichol, recently-appointed DeputyAssistant Comptroller of Customs, has arrived in Wellington from Dunedin to take up his new duties.

The Mayor, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., has returned from Wellington, and will remain in the city probably until Monday.

Dr. H. G. Denham was among the passengers from the north by the Maori yesterday morning.

Messrs A. Harris and D. McDougall, members of Parliament, arrived in Christchurch yesterday from Wellington.

Mr P. D. Mansell has been unanimously reelected president of the Canterbury Cricket Umpires' Association for the ensuing year. Mr Walter Gray, manager of the Mayfair Theatre, Napier, has been promoted to the managership of St. James' Theatre, Wellington. Mr R. T. Tosswill left last night on a business trip to the West Coast. He expects to return about Tuesday.

Mr B. Vinsen, New Zealand .manager of Columbia Pictures Proprietary, Ltd., will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow morning. Sympathy with the relatives of Mr C. C. M. ,OHivier, whose death occurred recently, was expressed at a meeting of the Heathcote County Council .last evening.

- Mr A. M. Burns left last night for Wellington, where he will attend meetings of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association and of the United Press Association of New Zealand.

Mr C. Egerton Lowe, examiner for the Trinity College of Music, arrived in Christchurch last evening from the West Coast. He is staying at the Clarendon Hotel, and will remain in the city for about three weeks.

Mr R. K. Styche was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand by Mr Justice Northcroft yesterday, on the motion of Mr F. W. Johnston.

Mr A. E. Caisley, of Wellington, a member of the council of the New Zealand Football Association, and a prominent referee, will take up a business position in Auckland early next week.

Mr M. W. E. Shore, of Wellington, advertising manager for Messrs W. D. and H. O. Wills, who is on a visit to Christchurch, will return north by to-night's steamer express. Mr Justice Johnston arrived from Wellington yesterday morning to preside over a one-day sitting of the Court of Review of Mortgagors' Liabilities, and will return this evening to take his seat on the Court of Appeal. The Rev. H. Bloomfield, of Moree, New South Wales, was welcomed at the meeting of the Wellington Presbytery on Tuesday and was received back into membership. Mr Bloomfield has been absent in Australia for eight years. Mr W. K. Dallas, citriculturist at the Plant Research Station, Palmerston North, has been transferred to Wellington as assistant director of the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture, during the absence of Mr B. Goodwin in Rarotbnga.

Mr George Harper was paid a special tribute by the Hon. Adam Hamilton, PostmasterGeneral, at the Association Day smoke concert of the Canterbury Commercial Travellers' and Warehousemen's Association, in the Jellicoe Hall last evening. "I understand that there is present a man very much beloved in the city, Mr George Harper, who has celebrated his ninety-second birthday," said Mr Hamilton. "I wish Mr Harper the best of good fortune." The staff of the Customs Department at Christchurch met this week to extend a fare-, well to Mr E. G. Taylor, examining officer, who has been transferred to Auckland. The Collector of Customs, Mr C. O. Trownson, presented Mr Taylor with an oak clock and two travelling cases. Several members of the staff spoke warmly of Mr Taylor's association with the Christchurch office, and the esteem he had won while there.

Captain R. G. Briscoe, Conservative member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire since 1923, and a director of Briscoe and Company, Ltd., arrived by the Mataroa from London last night on a business visit. After two or three weeks in the Dominion he will proceed to Australia before returning to London. Before entering Parliament Captain Briscoe was attache at the British Embassy at Berlin from 1924 to 1925. He was Parliamentary private secretary to Lord Moyne (then the Rt. Hon. Walter Guinness), who was Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He served hr the same capacity from 1925 to 1929, when the Minister held the portfolio of Agriculture.—Press Association.