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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22530, 12 October 1938, Page 10

Personal Items

The Minister for Railways (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) arrived in Christchurch from Wellington by air yesterday.

The Hon. Adam Hamilton, Leader of the National Party, left for Wellington by the steamer express last evening. During the day Mr Hamilton addressed meetings at Timaru and Ashburton.

The Marquess of Lothian, who is secretary of the Rhodes Trust, arrived at Auckland by air from Wellington yesterday. He will visit Auckland University College to-day and will meet members of the council and staff, and Auckland Rhodes scholars.

Mr J. E. Purchase, who has been visiting Great Britain, together with Mrs Purchase, returned to Christchurch yesterday morning. The Rev. Lawrence A. North, who for nearly eight years has been the minister of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, Christchurch, will conduct his final services next Sunday. Mr North has accepted a unanimous call to become the general secretary of the New Zealand Baptist Union and Missionary Society, and his headquarters will be in Wellington.

Mr George Falloon, a divinity student at Knox College, Dunedin, who has been appointed to represent the Students' Christian Movement at the international missionary conference at Madras (India), which will be held from December 12 to December 30, was welcomed at the monthly meeting of the Oamaru Presbytery yesterday.. The Moderator (the Rev. H. O. Bowman) congratulated Mr Falloon on his appointment as a delegate to the conference.

Appreciation of the excellent missions work done in the Presbytery by two visiting missionaries, Sister E. H. Ellidtt and the Rev. H. Davies, was expressed by members at the monthly meeting of the Oamaru Presbytery yesterday. A motion of thanks was carried.

Sympathy with Mr Frank Crawshaw, a member of the Oamaru Fire Board, in his illness was expressed by members of the board at its quarterly meeting on Monday. The board decided to grant Mr Crawshaw extended leave of absence.

The Rev. J. Lawson Robinson, of St. Andrew’s Church, Christchurch, was nominated by 'the Oamaru Presbytery as Moderator of tne General Assembly to be held in the Centennial year.

The Rev. J. G. Laughton, superintendent of the Maori missions of the Presbyterian Church, was nominated by the Auckland Presbytery last night as Moderator of the Assembly for the year 1939-1940. —Press Association. Motions of sympathy with the relatives of Mrs R. McCully, mother of Mr C. S. McCully, a member of the union for many years, and of Mrs J. R. Evans, widow of a former life member, were passed at a meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Rugby Union last evening.

The Rev. D. N. Pryor, formerly of Leeston, has accepted an assistantship to the Rev. G. M. Nicol, of Sheffield, England. His work will be centred in Chesterfield.

A motion of sympathy with the relatives of Mr J, A. Campbell, director of the Horticultural Division of the Department of Agriculture, whose death occurred recently, was carried in silence at a meeting of the committee of the Canterbury Horticultural Society last evening.

The growth of the Rotary organisation since 1915 was mentioned by Mr J. R. McKenzie, delegate of the Christchurch Rotary Club to the recent international conference at San Francisco, in an address to the club yesterday. Mr McKenzie said that one of the speakers at the conference had said that there were 186 Rotary Clubs in 1915, and now there were 4700. In 1915 there were 20,700 Rotarians, and to-day they numbered 199,000, The conference in 1915 was attended by 1888 delegates, and the one in 1938 had been attended by 10,000 persons from various parts of the world. Christchurch boxing enthusiasts last night gave an enthusiastic reception to a visiting sportsman, who at one time was one of the world’s best-known light-weight boxers. He was Johnnie Summers, formerly -holder of the English light-weight title, whose record, well known to many New Zealanders, included more than 400 fights. Mr Summers is still actively connected with the English ring. His present visit is in search of promising New Zealand boys looking for a professional career in England, and he has already signed on and will take to England George Allen, of Gisborne. Mr Summers frequently acts as referee in England, and recently he has refereed bouts in which Maurice Strickland, the New Zealand heavyweight contender, has taken paz&