Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22135, 3 July 1937, Page 14

Personal Items

Dr. Alan Tennent, who was a member of the New Zealand Coronation contingent, is spending a further three months in England engaged in professional studies. He is expected to return to New Zealand in October. Mr R. J. Mac Kay, who has been on the staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Masterton, for the last 11 years, has left the firm to take up a position with the Dunlop Rubber Company in Christchurch. He arrived in Christchurch yesterday.

Messrs C. Morgan Williams, M.P., and T. H. McCombs, M.P., were passengers by the steamer express from the north yesterday. Dr. H. G. Denham, of Canterbury University College, arrived from the north by steamer express yesterday.

Professor J. Malcolm arrived from Wellington yesterday.

Mr G. A. Lewin, Dunedin, a director of the board of management of the State Advances Corporation, arrived from the north yesterday. Mr R. B. Tennent, Superintendent of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, arrived from Wellington yesterday. Dr. R. O. Page was a passenger by the steamer express from Wellington yesterday.

The Rev. E. O. Blamires returned from the north yesterday.

Flight Lieutenant Rex Kippenberger, of the Royal Air Force, examining officer for three civil aviation schools near London, was requested to present himself before the King at the Levee at Buckingham Palace. Flight Lieutenant Kippenberger formerly lived in Studholme, South Canterbury. Mr O. A. Welch, who will leave for England shortly, was entertained recently by the council of the United Kingdom Manufacturers' and New Zealand Representatives' Association, of which he has been a prominent member for 17 years. Appreciation of his services was expressed by the president, Mr C. W. Budd. An official welcome was extended to Mr O. G. A. Home, who will be Mr Welch's business successor.

Mr John Farrell, representing J. C. Williamson, Ltd., arrived yesterday from Wellington to make arrangements for the firm's opera company's season in Christchurch. Mrs Farrell accompanies him.

The Rev. Lawrence Redfern will arrive in Auckland on July 25 on a tour of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada on behalf of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches. For many years Mr Redfern has been in Liverpool. In 1922 he was a member of a commission appointed to visit Transylvania to investigate there the conditions of religious freedom. Mr E. C. Ellison left by the steamer express last night for Wellington to meet his brother, Mr F. R. Ellison, London manager of the National Dairy Association of New Zealand, who is arriving by the Rangitiki.