Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21745, 30 March 1936, Page 10

Personal Items

Mr Arthur Packard, who until recently was proprietor and editor of t|ie “Eltham Argus,” has disposed of the property to Mr C, S. Rush, formerly of Dargaville. Mr Packard will join the staff of “The Press” next month. ■

Dr, A. C. McKillop returned from the North Island by the steamer express yesterday morning.

The Hon. J. Goodall, M.L.C., of Greymouth, was a passenger from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr W. J, Sim returned from the North Island by the steamer express yesterday morning.

Mr H. O. Jacobsen left on Saturday evening for Wellington to attend a sitting of the Court of Appeal to-day.

Mr R. H. Parton, of Wellington, arrived by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr A. H. Rockell and Mr Fraser Thomson have been admitted as members of the Christchurch Business Men’s Club. Mr J. Mawson Stewart, who has been on a business visit to Wellington, returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning. Members of Parliament who came south by the steamer express on Saturday morning were Messrs E, J. Howard, D. Barnes, H. Herring, W. M. C. Denham. T. H. McCombs, and H. S. S. Kyle. *

Members of the Legislative Council who arrived from Wellington by the steamer express on Saturday morning were the Hon. D. Bud do and the Hon. J. A, McCullough., Dr. J. Hight, C.M.G., rector of Canterbury University College, and Dr, F, W, Hilgendorf, director of Canterbury Agricultural College, returned south on Saturday morning from a visit to Wellington on university business. Sir William Hunt was a passenger from Wellington by the steamer express on Saturday morning.

Licensing committees have been allotted to the stipendiary magistrates in Canterbury as follows:—-Mr H. A. Young, Hurunui, Kaiapoi, Christchurch, and Mid-Canterbury; Mr E. C. Lewey, Riccarton and Avon: Mr F. F. Reid. Lyttelton. •

The appointment of Mr Harry Lumsden Tancred to be a Flying Officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force at the Wigram aerodrome is announced in the latest Gazette.

Captain A. Heber-Percy, A.D.C. to the Gov-ernor-General, passed through Christchurch on Saturday morning on his way to South Westland, where he will be deer-stalking for -four weeks. He will stay at the Hermitage on the way back.

Professor D. B. Copland, Professor of Commerce and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce in the University of Melbourne, and formerly Professor of Economics at Canterbury University College, has been appointed by the executive committee of the University Senate to represent the University of New Zealand at the tercentenary celebrations of Harvard University next September.

Mr F. N. Smith, 0.8. E., representative of the Ministry of Pensions, London, will be in Christchurch on Tuesday. Mr Smith will meet representatives of returned soldiers’ organisations at the offices of the Registrar of Pensions here. As Mr A. H, Parfitt, the registrar, understands it, Mr Smith is travelling to investigate the position of Imperial soldiers resident in New Zealand.

Sir Louis Barnett, emeritus professor of , surgery in the University of Otago, arrived in Christchurch on Saturday. He is returning from Australia, where he attended the annual conference of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. , Judge Harvey, of the Native Land Court, arrived by the steamer express from the north yesterday morning, and will leave this week on an official visit to the Chatham Islands, sailing by the Tees.

Congratulations to Mr A. E. Caddick, president of the branch, who has been appointed headmaster of the Christchurch West High School, and Mr M. Leadbetter on his appointment to the Waimate Boys’ High School; are contained in the annual report of the Canterbury branch of the Wellington College Old Boys’Association.