Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21909, 9 October 1936, Page 10

Personal Items

Auckland will give a civic farewell to the Minister for Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) next Monday night. The Minister will leave by the Aorangi for Vancouver on Tuesday on his way to Britain. —Press Association.

Lord Elibank, who presided over the congress of the Federated Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, arrived in Christchurch yesterday from Wellington and is staying with Mr Norton Francis, president of the New Zealand Associated Chambers of Commerce.

Mr Richard Crooks, who has concluded a season in Christchurch, left for the north by air yesterday, accompanied by Mr Arthur Tait. Mr John Farrell, representative of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., left by the steamer express last evening.

Mr S. C. Doyle, superintendent of road motor transport in the Railways Department, and Mr H. Benge, engineer, left for the porth last evening.

Mr G. Lawn, a member of the directorate of the Reserve Bank, left for the north last evening. He will join Mr G. Ashbridge, secretary of the New Zealand Teachers’ Institute, in a tour of various centres of the North Island. Mr lan Bowater. a director of the English newsprint manufacturing firms of Bowaters and Edward Lloyds, is visiting Christchurch. It is Mr Bowater’s third visit to New Zealand, the last being in 1932.

A vote of sympathy with Mr J. M. Willoughby, a member of the staff, in the death of his father was passed at the meeting of the Ashburton Technical High School Board last evening.

Mr W. R. Carey was elected chairman of the executive of the South Island Motor Union at an executive meeting last evening.

The resignation of Mr C. N. Hamilton, who has been transferred to Timaru, was received at a meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Centre of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association last evening. A resolution of appreciation of Mr Hamilton’s services as a member of the executive was placed on record.

Mr Raymond Ritchie, of Christchurch, who left last April for a cycle tour of Great Britain, is now staying with friends in Derby. He intends to leave shortly for Scotland and Wales, and then to cross to Ireland to stay with his uncle, Mr Lenard C. Ritchie.