Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21729, 11 March 1936, Page 10

Personal Items

Mr T. Newburgh arrived in Christchurch by the Maori yesterday morning.

Mr J. E. Jones was last evening re-elected president of the Canterbury Football Association.

Dr Walton Bremner returned to Christchurch yesterday by the Union Airways liner Korimako from Dunedin.

Mr Barrie Marschel, attorney and general representative in New Zealand for British Dominions Films, arrived in Christchurch from the north yesterday.

Mr T. H. Williams was elected president of the Christchurch branch of the, Dickens Fellowship at the recent annual meeting. Mr George Cowie, of Bing, Harris and Company, Ltd., left for Wellington last night by the steamer express. He is to attend a meeting of the board of directors of his firm.

A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr D. Richardson was passed at the annual meeting of the Linwood Library last evening. Mr Richardson had been a foundation member of, the library, and had be:en president for a long period.

Congratulations to Mr S. F. Wilson on having been elected a life member of the Canterbury Rugby Union were offered by the president of the Albion Football Club, Mr H. T. Fuller, at the annual general meeting of the club last evening. Mr Wilson was re-elected patron of the club.

, Mr Henry Kitson, chairman of the Christchurch Stock Exchange, and president of the Associated Stock Exchanges of New Zealand, was a visitor at the morning call on the Sydney Stock Exchange yesterday. He was welcomed by the chairman, Mr E. G. Blackmore. The resignation of Mr C. R. Hervey, who for many years has been a member of the association as a delegate from the Canterbury Rowing Club, was received at a meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Rowing Association last evening. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded Mr Hervey for the services he has rendered to the sport of rowing. Mr A. H. Hobbs, president of the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association, and Mr A. Williams, executive member, will leave for Wellington next Saturday to attend the annualconference of the New Zealand Federation of Justices of the Peace, which will begin on Tuesday, March 17. Mr H. F. Herbert, another Canterbury delegate, will leave on Monday. On the retirement of Mr W. J. Campbell, probation and maintenance officer in Auckland, Mr J. Anderson has been appointed to the position. Mr Anderson has been assistant probation officer in Auckland for the last 15 years, and also assistant schoolmaster and officer in charge of the stores at Auckland prisonPress Association.

At a meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Rowing Association last evening, a letter was received from the Canterbury Rowing Club stating that it had elected Mr B. R. Walker as one of its delegates to the association, replacing Mr F. H. Thompson. The president, Mr F. D. Kesteven, welcomed Mr Walker on behalf of the members of the association.

Superintendent A. Morrison, of the Hawera Fire Brigade, has been appointed deputy-super-intendent of the Christchurch Fire Brigade, in place of Deputy-Superintendent C. J. Blake, who will retire at the end of this month after nearly 41 years' service. The appointment was made at a meeting of the Christchurch Fire Board last evening.

The members of the executive of the Canterbury Rowing Association at a meeting last evening decided to place on record the long years of service given to rowing by Mr J. R. Evans and to convey to his relatives their sympathy in their bereavement. The chairman, Mr F. D. Kesteven, remarked that Mr Evans was one of the most ardent supporters of rowing in Canterbury.

Mr James McKessar, of the engineering staff at the Sunnyside Mental Hospital, has retired after 40 years' service. Mr McKessar was met by a representative gathering of the staff and presented with a wallet of notes as a token of the high regard in which he was held by the whole institution. In making the presentation, the medical superintendent. Dr. A. C. McKillop, paid a warm tribute to the remarkable qualities which made the recipient one of the most popular members of the service, and wished him many years of good health in which to enjoy his well-earned retirement. The chief engineer, Mr W. B. P. McKenzie, speaking on behalf of the engine-room staff, remarked that Mr McKessar was held in the highest regard by his associates, and all felt that he would leave behind a record of honourable and efficient service unsurpassed by any member of the service.

"You cannot expect to get tourists in New Zealand unless you give them the same treatment as they receive iri other countries," remarked Mr Hartley W. Whyte, a visitor to Palmerston North *om Glasgow, in an interview. "If you go to the Chateau or the Waitpmo Caves you are expected to take your own liquor with you, which is ridiculous. On that-matter, I think that New Zealand requires a redistribution of its'hotel'licenses. The population has changed in different districts and in spme areas where there is a large number of people there are few licenses, whereas in others Where the population has dropped there are the same number of licenses as there were many years ago.* •''•..