Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22413, 28 May 1938, Page 14

Personal Items

The Hon. Mr Justice Northcroft will leave to-day for the West Coast, to conduct Supreme Court sittings.

Mr C. Morgan Williams, M.P., has been appointed Government representative on the Waimakariri River Trust in place of Mr J. H. Blackwell, who resigned recently. Mr Philip B. Levy, director of CarltonCarruthers, Ltd., left for the south yesterday. Members of the Legislative Council who arrived from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning were the Hon. J. K. Archer, the Hon. T. F. O’Byrne, the Hon. T. F. Doyle, and the Hon. J. A. McCullough.

Messrs J. O’Brien, C. Morgan Williams, and T. H. McCombs, members of Parliament, were passengers from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning.

Professor E. R. Hudson, Director of Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln, arrived from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning.

Professor J. Rankine Brown was a passenger from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning, Messrs H. M.' Aitken, W. Hoff, H. Wilkins, P. McCarthy, N. Wauch9P, and A. A. Austin were passengers on the steamer express from the north yesterday morning.

Mr W. H. Johnston, agricultural instructor to the Canterbury Education Board, who has retired, was met by members of the staff on Thursday and presented with a gold watch by the secretary (Mr L. E. Rowley). The vacancy has been filled by Mr S. A, La Roche, formerly of the Wairarapa College staff, Masterton. At the annual meeting of the Sunlight League, held last night, it was decided on the motion of Mr C. G. McKellar to send greetings to Archbishop Julius, who was unable to be present. Archbishop Julius has more than once presided at the league’s meetings, and has at all times taken a keen interest in its activities and its progress.

A deputation representing mountain clubs and trampers waited on the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry) in Wellington, urging reconsideration of the proposal to erect monuments at various points as the Wellington provincial centenary memorial, and supporting the proposal to create the Tararua ranges a national park* Mr Parry said that tramping and mountain clubs had no cause for fear that their present activities in the Tararuas would be in any way curtailed, and that in the circumstances it might be advisable to leave the position as it was. There .was a serious danger that reading and other works would interfere with the area if it were made a national park. There was a large section of the people opposed to the bush being disturbed;, also there was the danger of fire.— Press Association.

Representatives of the Tokyo International Exposition, to be held in 1940 under the auspices of the Japanese Government, waited on the Minister for Finance (the Hon. W. Nash) and the Minister for Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) in Wellington yesterday, and submitted proposals that New Zealand should be represented at the exposition. They produced plans of the layout of the exposition, and tentatively marked a site for a New Zealand exhibit near the Australian court. The plans were left with the Ministers, who said they would give the proposal careful consideration. The members of the mission also waited on the Mayor of Wellington (Mr T. C. A. Hislop), chairman of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company, and expressed to him their desire that New Zealand should be represented in Tokyo. Mr Hislop said he hoped Japan would be represented at the New Zealand exhibition in Wellington in 1940. The mission replied that if New Zealand were represented in Tokyo there was every chance of reciprocation. The Japanese proposal was also placed before representatives of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, who were impressed with the desirability of New Zealand being represented. Members of the mission will leave to-morrow for Rotorua, where they will stay two days. They will sail by the Niagara for Sydney on Tuesday.—Press Association.

During an address on “The Geology of the Waikato,” given in Hamilton, Professor J, A. Bartrum, of Auckland University College, said without doubt the pumice deposits in the Taupo area were the greatest in the world. American geologists had told him that they were astounded at the extent of the formation and had never seen anything to approach it. Professor Bartrum mentioned -that pumice was, initially, frothing rock formed when the Waikato was being subjected to severe eruptions.