Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22017, 15 February 1937, Page 8

Personal Items

The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) and the Minister for Mines (the Hon. P. Webb) travelled to Stewart Island on Saturday to spend the week-end there, returning to-morrow. They will make tours of inspection and hear deputations. On Wednesday they will visit the Homer tunnel. —Press Association.

Sir Cecil Leys arrived from the north yesterday morning.

Mr H. S. S. Kyle, M.P., arrived in Christchurch from the north by the Rangatira on Saturday morning. Mr John James Hargreaves, of Brunner, has been appointed a deputy-registrar of births, deaths, and marriages for the district. Mr H. J. Empen has been appointed a commissioner of the High Court of the Cook Islands as from December 15 last.year. Mr G. A. Lewin, a director of 'the board of management of the State Advances, Corporation, and formerly Town Clerk of Dunedin, arrived from Wellington on Saturday. Mr D. I. Macdonald, secretary of the Canterbury Employers' Association, returned on Saturday morning from the North Island, where he has been attending the plumbers' conference in Wanganui.

Mr John Macmillan, managing director of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, Ltd., and of the Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line, Ltd., who is staying at the Christchurch Club, will leave for Wellington to-morrow evening. Captain Hubert Acland, D.5.0., R.N., has been appointed to the command of H.M.A.S. Australia, in succession to Captain H. A. Forster, whose term of loan service will expire on March 31. Captain Acland will join the Australia at Wellington early in April, during the visit of the squadron to New Zealand waters.

Mr W. Gray Young, of Wellington, president of the New Zealand Institute of Architects, will arrive, in Christchurch to-morrow to preside over the annual conference of the institute. The conference will be held in the Provincial Council Chambers, and will end on Friday. It will be opened to-morrow morning by the Mayor (Mr J. W. Beanland).

"Just now South Africa is on the crest of a wave of prosperity, for the price of gold has caused a boom," said the Rev. Albert Mead, on his return to Dunedin, from a trip abroad. "The soaring price of wool has also accentuated the country's wealthy condition." Material advancement, however, often brought spiritual'impoverishment, and South Africa's danger lay there, for the South African was not developing along cultural lines as firmly and as quickly as the New Zealander. The presence of the natives was, in many respects, an advantage, but there was still a form of slavery evidenced by the extent to which the European was enslaved to the native by his dependence upon him in domestic and industrial life.

The attention being given in countries overseas to the development of sound physique among the youth of the country so that there would be no C 3: men was referred to by Mr L. G. Lowry, M.P., before presenting the trophies after the sports meeting held by the Johnsonville Returned Soldiers' Association auxiliary. Sports meetings, said Mr Lowry, were of great benefit to a country. A clean mind and a healthy body stood for good citizenship. He had been very pleased to notice that at the meeting that afternoon the winner at all times had been congratulated by those not so fortunate.

That several Auckland business men were sponsoring a scheme to raise funds to erecta building to house the winter show and other large displays, was mentioned by Mr P. N Ambler at a meeting of the Auckland Manufacturers' Association. The association's winter show committee had discussed the matter, and the secretary had been instructed to prepare details as to costs and to report to the executive. Mr Ambler said he did not think the Auckland Harbour Board would see the association stuck for accommodation for this years fixture, but the position was serious and got more serious each year. "We have to do something," he added. "I think if this schema comes to fruition our difficulties will be largely solved. I don't think the promoters will have the slightest difficulty in making it a payable concern."