Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21728, 10 March 1936, Page 8

Personal Items

The linn. I?. t>. SwDivan (Minister for industries and Commerce) relumed to Wellington last night on the inter-island steamer. The Rev. R. J. Griffiths, of Paeroa, has been elected Moderator oi the Waikato Presbyter;,-.

Captain R. S. Walton, marine superintendent for the Union Steam Ship Company at Sydney, is paying a brief visit to the Dominion.

The Rev. David ('alder, 8.A.. Dominion secretary of the British and Foreign fable Society, Welli'ngion, is spending a holiday in .North Auckland.

Svmpathv with I!"' relatives of M'' I''- C. Godfrcy who whs a member of the Christchurc!! Football Club, was expressed at the annual meeting of th- club last night.

Dr. A. Kidd. medical superintended of Waipiata Sanatorium, Central Ofago, is. spending a short holiday in the North Island before proceeding to England and the Continent. Mr C. S. Snootier, formerly of Ihe staff of (ho S'Hith British Insurance Company at CaleuPa, v/ho has been in Auckland on fur!ou;;h, 1011, by fho»Aorangi on his way In Tok.\ o, whore Julias been transferred.

Mr A. Den J It-rl. ■;:. "hianacjn- direcb>iv ~( Philips I,amps (Aus.traha and New Zealand), I,ld and a director o!" the Elect rie |,amp Meniilaelurers. Newcastle. Now South Wales is en a business vis.it In N'-v, Zealand alter a bsir ol Europe. America, and (iu- North <>f At sum. Mr N. I. llasv.anl. I'.Sc. P..E., of YVadu. v ho 1,;..; sludyin;.; ; >1 il! " thaso University for the last, four years, has, b en awarded a nsearch scholarship, h-naoie in Australia l'-<f one year, by the An*-1 ndasian Minis;; and IVielallursu'cal Associal ion.

The choice of .1. E. Maneheeicr as captain >l the Hi:;r> All Biack loam is counted an eapocial honour bv member:, of the Cbrislchureh Koolball Club, of which Manchester i. ; a no-mber. This is only the second lane that, the eiub ha* had this honour, it. was as lone, ae.o as, Est! that W. V. Milifi'ii <aptaiiu-d the All Blacks is Australia.

Mr G. Dunenmbe. a member of the New Brighton Boroue.h Council, who has Ir-en a patient in the: Lewisham Hospital, was granted three months' leave of absence at. the meeting of the council last, evening. The council decided to send him a letter of sympathy.

Appreciation of the work done for the Christchurch Football Club by its captain, Mr G. H. Frater, was expressed at the annual meeting last night. Mr Frater. a member said, had given phenomenal service from an arduous position.

Mr J. Earlc Bredie, South Island manager of the National Electrical and Engineering Company, will leave during April on a business trip to England and America. His position will be filled by Mr M. O. Walker, of the Wellington branch of the company, who will arrive in Christchurch this week.

A motion of svmpathv with Mr J. S. Neville. in the death of his wife was passed by the Christchurch Bowling Centre last night. The centre also decided to send expressions of sympathy to relatives of the late Mr C. V. Child-, who was a prominent member of the Barrington Club.

At the annual assembly of the Congregational Is : -.: yesterday recommendations were adopted '•'■' l the Rev. A. C. Nelson, minister of the B se"Cord Street Church, Auckland, be appointed warden of the college council, and that the following officers be elected:—Chairman, the Rev. G. Heighway; council, the Revs. F. de Lisle. G. Jackson, 11. W. Ncwell, A,. Mead, A. Johnson, and Messrs C. E. Campbell, 11. Elinor, and J. M. Holt.—Press Association.

During the last two or three years the headmasters and headmistresses of the various secondary schools had been asked by the university authorities to send in with the matriculation entry forms an estimate of the chances of the candidate passing the examination, said Mr F. Martyn Renner, principal of the Rongofai College at Wellington. A denoted a certain pass, B probable pass, C doubtful, and D no chance. So far as he knew, those estimates were not made use of in the marking of the papers, though he had no doubt that such estimates with a little further elaboration might prove of very great value if they were used by the examiners, particularly in border-line cases. Their value, of course, lay in minimising the risk of doing a grave injustice to those candidates who had worked well and conscientiously and did not show up to advantage in a written examination