Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22338, 28 February 1938, Page 10

Personal Items

The Hon. R. Semple (Minister for Public Works and for Transport) arrived in Christchurch on Saturday morning, when he received deputations. In the afternoon Mr Semple opened the new Summit road on the Port Hills. He went on a sea fishing expedition yesterday. To-night the Minister will give an illustrated address on public works methods at Riccarton, and to-morrow night he will repeat his address at Ashburton. Mr Semple wiL return to Wellington on Wednesday night. Wing Commander L. M. Isitt was a passenger on the inter-island steamer from Wellington yesterday morning. Mr J. J. W: Pollard, director of the South Islands Travel Association, left for the south by Saturday's express. Mr R. Hudson arrived from the north on the steamer express on Saturday morning. Captain E. G. Morris, naval adviser to the New Zealand Government, arrived from Wellington on the inter-island steamer on Saturday morning. Commissioner F. Adams, of the Salvation Army, arrived on the inter-island steamer on Saturday morning. Professor E. R. Hudson, director of Canterbury Agricultural College, was a passenger on the steamer express from the north yesterday morning. Mr C. A. Burgess has been elected by the council of the New Zealand Golf Association to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr C. H. Andrews. t Mr J. F. Filmer has arrived at the Wallaceville Laboratory to take charge of the field experimental work in the deficiency diseases ot stock, particularly cobalt deficiency. He was formerly associated with the Agricultural Department of the Western Australian Government. Mr J. B. C. Taylor, of the Railways Department, arrived from Wellington by the steamer express to take up an engineering scholarship at Canterbury College. Mr Taylor was successful in passing the M.Sc. (first-class honours) in the last New Zealand University examinations. Mr H. Williams, second officer of the Government lighthouse steamer Matai, has retired on superannuation after 37 years' service. He v/as met by the head office staff of the Marine Department and representatives of the lighthouse service in Wellington last week and presented with a reading lamp, a travelling case, and a rug. Mr R. N. K. Swanston, Takapuna, Auckland, has been appointed a director of the Guardian Trust and Executors Company of New, Zealand, Ltd. For 45 years Mr Swanston was in the service of the Bank of Australasia in Australia and New Zealand, and during nine years before his retirement in 1935 was manager of the Auckland branch of the bank. Advice has been received that Mr Alan A. Brash, M.A., of Otago University, who has been at New College, Edinburgh, for the last three years, will complete his theological studies in April and also sit for his final Edinburgh B.D. examination. His trials for licence have already been sustained, and he will be licensed by the Edinburgh Presbytery in April. He tied for first place for Scotland in the Browne-Downie scholarship. Mr Brash is at present employed as assistant at the Lockhart Memorial Church, in Edinburgh. He expects to reach New Zealand in September.