Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22436, 24 June 1938, Page 10

Personal Items

The Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C., was a passenger from the North Island by the steamer express yesterday morning. f The Hon. Mr Justice Kennedy has been appointed a Royal Commission on grievances alleged by Maoris concerning certain lands at Orakei in Auckland, states the Gazette. ■ The Mayor (Mr R. M. Macfarlane) has been appointed chairman of the committee set up to consider plans for the Canterbury court at the centennial exhibition in Wellington. Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon, president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed deputy-chairman. The committee has been giving consideration to the amount of space to be taken, and information on building matters has been supplied by Christchurch architects. It is hoped that it will soon be possible to submit estimates of the cost to a conference of local bodies and interested organisations. Mr Walter Clifford was elected an honorary life member of the Canterbury Aero ’Club at the annual meeting last evening. The president, Mr R. S. Taylor, said that Mr Clifford was a foundation member of the club, and his daughter, Mrs A. Brustad, was, as Miss Aroha Clifford, the first club-trained pilot to get her “ticket.” Mr, R. S. Taylor was elected president and Dr, J. H. Fahey vice-president of the Canterbury Aero Club at the annual meeting of the club last evening. Lady Wigram was re-elected patroness. Mr J. S. Stringer has arrived in .Christchurch to join the staff of the Customs Department. He has been transferred from the Wellington staff of the department. Messrs W. P. Brinsley, M. M. Jackson. K. W. Gibson, J. E. Blomfield. C. W. Woolf, W. Cole, D. H. Harrison, R. A. Campbell, W. M. Orbell, and G. R. Ryder were among the passengers to arrive by the steamer express from the north yesterday morning. Mr A. P. Watson was a passenger for the north by last night’s steamer express. Mr N. Pelvin, formerly an itinerant inspector of factories in the North Island, has joined the Labour Department’s staff in Christchurch as an inspector. He replaces Mr W. Mealings, who has taken over the itinerant work in the north. Sir Lindo Ferguson has been appointed a member of the Board of Health. Officers of the Sydenham Methodist Church entertained Mr W. Dobbs to tea recently in honour of his eightieth birthday. . The Rev. Wesley Parker presided and several officers spoke of Mr Dobbs’s services to the church. The guest was presented with books by Mr Parker, and, for the women of the church, Mrs Withell presented Mrs Dobbs with a gift. The Beckenham and High street churches were represented by Messrs W. L. Thomas and Ewart Smith and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union by Mrs S. Adkins. Musical items were given by Mrs W. G. Wright and Mr Stanley Sayers.