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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22271, 9 December 1937, Page 10

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An unusual ceremony was performed by the Governor-General (Lord Galway) yesterday morning, when he administered the accolade of Knighthood on Sir Charles Norwood, who has been a patient in the Bowen Street Hospital for some weeks. The honour was conferred on Sir Charles by the King earlier this year, but illness prevented his attendance at Government House for the ceremony. Lady Norwood and several personal friends were present. The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) will leave Wellington this evening for the south. .To-morrow he will inspect the southern section of the South Island Main Trunk constr&ction works, returning to Christchurch to spend the week-end there. The Minister will return to Wellington on Monday evening. He will hear deputations while in Christchurch. Messrs D. Reese and John Mac Gibbon left for the north last evening. Mr H. F. O’Leary, K.C., arrived from the north yesterday by the Wahine. Mr John D. Pascoe, well-known Canterbury mountaineer, has been elected a member of the Alpine Club, London. Mr A. E. McPhail left for Wellington last evening to attend the New Zealand Rugby Council meeting. The Rev. J. Lawson Robinson, Moderator of the Presbytery of Christchurch, extended a welcome at a meeting of the Presbytery yesterday to the Rev. Gordon Taylor, of St. David’s Church, who has recently from Dunedin. The Moderator welcomed also the Rev. Alan C. Watson, who has just returned to Christchurch from an overseas tour. The Rev. George Miller was yesterday appointed clerk of the Christchurch Presbytery, in succession to the Rev. G. W. T. Hercus, who has resigned. The Rev. A. McNeur was appointed moderator of Scargill, and the Rev. W. H. Johnson moderator of Cheviot—positions held formerly by Mr Hercus. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the Bishop of Waiapu (the Rt. Rev. H. W. Williams), who died on Monday, was passed at a meeting last night of the Canterbury branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Bishop Williams was president of the society. Mr G. H. Bourne, manager of the Bank of New South Wales in Christchurch for the last 18 months, has received notice of his transfer to Queensland. He will be succeeded in Christchurch by Mr R. M. Wolfe, from one of the Sydney branches. Messrs J. B. Hay (Pigeon Bay), C. B. Thacker, jun. (Okain’s Bay), and Mason Chamberlain (Ellesmere) were elected life members of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association at yesterday’s meeting of the general committee. Sympathy with the relatives of Mr A. Macquarrie (Christchurch), Mr George Arres and Mr H. M. Anderson (Waikari), and Mr James Bentley (Hawarden) was expressed at a meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery yesterday.