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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22083, 4 May 1937, Page 8

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The Christchurch City Council decided last evening to request the Hon. R. Semple (Minister for Public Works) to lay. the foundation stone of the new Municipal Electricity Department building. Mi* Ronald W. Perrott, formerly of Papanui, will leave Wellington to-day by the Awatea for Sydney, where he will join the technical staff of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), Ltd. Brigadier W. Cottrill, Divisional Commander of the Salvation Army/ has returned to Christchurch after visiting Army centres on the West Coast. ' . Mr Clifford O'Malley, formerly of the Canterbury College School t)f Art, left Wellington yesterday by the Port Denison for London. Mr W. Bishop, Chief Accountant for the New Zealand Railways, returned to Wellington last evening after a visit to Christchurch. . Regret at the death of Mr L. J. Wilkins, a former member of the Fendalton School Committee, was expressed in the report submitted at, the annual meeting of the school, householders last evening. Crs. E. H. Andrews, T. H. Butterfield, and W. S. Mac Gibbon were reappointed by the City Council last night as its representatives on the Christchurch Fire Board. A motion of sympathy with Mr L. A. Cox, of the Christchurch City Council's staff, in the death of his father, was carried at a meeting of the council last night. Sympathy with the relatives of Mr E. Tavendale, of the Waimairi Rugby League Club, who died recently,, was expressed at a meeting ot the Canterbury Rugby Football League last evening. Messrs L. B. Evans and H. B. Oakey were nominated by the Christchurch Bowling Centre last night for the Council of the New Zealand Bowling Association. An election to choose seven South Island members of the council will be held next week. Mr James Wright, of the staff of the Christchurch branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, has been transferred to the Wellington branch. Mr S. Ranganathan, a member of the Indian Civil Service, arrived at Wellington yesterday to spend a short holiday in New Zealand. He intends to study the operation of the Debt Adjustment Court, as there is a proposal to introduce similar legislation in India. He is accompanied by his wife and two sons. They will tour the North Island before returning to India via Australia. Mr J. A. Stables, who has been associated with the National Insurance Company of New Zealand, Ltd., at Dunedin and Christchurch for nearly 40 years, retired on superannuation from the company's service last Friday. Mr Stables is well known in Canterbury, not only because of his insurance activities, but also through a long association with Freemasonry. On Friday afternoon a gathering in his honour, at which Mrs and Miss Stables attended, was held at the company's offices, when Mr Stables received a presentation from the manager and staff. He intends to remain in Christchurch, where he has lived for the last 29 years. Motions of condolence with the relatives of Mr F. J. Good, the Linwood Club's delegate, and an immediate past president of the New Zealand Bowling Association, and with the relatives of Mr E. J. Ross, a former member of the United Club, were carried at last night's meeting of the Christchurch Centre of the New Zealand Bowling Association. Tributes were paid by the chairman (Mr W. Healey) to Mr Good's work as a legislator and administrator in the control of the sport, and it was stated that his death was a severe loss to bowls in New Zealand. The Town Clerk (Mr «T. S. Neville) was congratulated by the Christchurch City Council last night on completing 36 years in its service. Mr Neville joined the council's staff in 1901, and after two years in the rate department was appointed assistant-Town Clerk, succeeding to his present position on the retirement of Mr H. R. Smith in 1924. Referring last night to Mr Neville's service, the Mayor (Mr J. W. Beanland) said that Mr Neville had the record of a longer period of municipal service than any other town.clerk in New Zealand. Crs. E. H. Andrews, A; C. Sandston, T. H. Butterfield,.and F. D. Sargent also spoke in praise of Mr Neville.