Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22242, 5 November 1937, Page 10

Personal Items

Mr A. J. McEldowney, superintendent of the Presbyterian Social Service Association, Christchurch, left for Auckland last evening to attend the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and to visit the orphanages of the church in Wellington and Auckland. Mr G. W. Skellerup, manager of the Para Rubber Company, Ltd., was a passenger from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning, Messrs T. D. Burnett, M.P., and H. E. Herring M.P., were passengers from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr L W. Hemmings,’ of Invercargill, arrived from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning and left later for the south. Mr H, C. Hassall, manager of the D.1.C., Christchurch, returned to Christchurch from Wellington ,by the steamer express yesterday morning. Messrs F. B. Adams and C. L. Calvert (Dunedin) passed through Christchurch on their way north last evening to attend a meeting of the Council of Law Reporting in Wellington. Mr D. I. Macdonald, secretary to the Canterbury Employers’ Association, will return from Wellington to-day. Mr J. Roy Smith, secretary to the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, is the conference in Timaru of the Associated Cham bers of Commerce. Sir Howard d’Agville, secretary of the United Kingdom branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, will visit News e ul?2 d jsv next tending the celebrations to be heid eaily next year to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Australia He expects to arrive at Auckland on February 14. and to be in Wellington from February 15 to February 20.-Parhamentary Reporter. Mr J. O’Brien. M.P. for Westland, was elected yesterday by the New Zealand branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association to represent the association at the celebrations to be held in New South Wales in January to commemorate the sesquicentennial of Australia. Parliamentary Reporter. The Rev. E. P. Y. Simpson, of the Rangiora Baptist Church, has accepted a call to the Mosgiel Baptist Church, and will begin his ministry there early next year. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association yesterday the Speaker of the House of Representatives (the Hon. W. E. Barnard) presided The following officers were elected— Presidents, the Speaker of the Legislative Council (Sir Walter Camcrqss) and Mr Barnard; vice-presidents, the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage), the Leader of the Legislative Council (the Hon. Mark Fagan), the Leader of the Opposition (the Hon. Adam Hamilton), the Rt. Hon G W. Forbes, the Rt Hon. J. G. Coates, and Sir James Allen; honorary treasurer, the Hon. W. W. Snodgrass; honorary secretary, the Clerk of Parliaments, Mr C. M. Bothamley.—Parliamentary Reporter.