Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22245, 9 November 1937, Page 10

Personal Items

A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Brigadier-General W. Braithwaite was passed last evening at a meeting of the executive of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association.

Mr Raymond A. R. Lawry, of Kenya Colony, will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow morning, and will be the guest of Mr and Mrs Melville Lawry. Mount Pleasant. Mr A. W. Mewton, a member of the executive of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association, was last night elected to fill a vacancy on the Canterbury branch of the Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment League.

Mr Eric Law, who recently resigned the position of organist and choirmaster at St. Ninian’s Presbyterian Church, Riccarton, was given a presentation by the choir as a mark of their esteem. The vacancy has been filled by the appointment of Mr Len Barnes as choirmaster and Miss Gladys E. Benton as organist.

Messrs V. E. Hamilton, W. R. Heney, and J. W. Manchester were last evening elected honorary members of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association.

The Hon. J. Goodall, M.L.C., and the Hon. W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C., left for the north last evening.

Professor E. R. Hudson, director of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, left for the north last evening.

Members of Parliament who left for the north by the steamer express last evening were Messrs T. H. McCombs, Clyde Carr, E. J. Howard, T. D. Burnett, C. M. Williams, and H. E. Herring.

The Rev. L. B. Neale, of Dunedin, has accepted the invitation of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association to give the main address at the Anzac Day service in Christchurch next year.