Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22673, 30 March 1939, Page 10

Personal Items

Mr S. G. Holland, M.P., arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning on his return from the north. Mr H. H. Sterling was among the passengers from the North Island by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr W. W. Mulholland, Dominion president of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, was among the arrivals from the North Island yesterday. Messrs W. R. Carey. R. E. Booker and A. L. Gray were among the passengers by yesterday morning’s steamer express. Dr. H. G. Denham travelled to Wellington last night by the steamer express. Mr C. J. Talbot was a passenger for the north by the steamer express yesterday evening. After 44 years of service as an officer of the Salvation Army, 19 of which have been spent in New Zealand, Brigadier Albert Miles, of Wellington, has retired and will visit England. Posts Brigadier Miles has held in Canterbury include those of chancellor of the Christchurch Division and manager of the Temuka Boys’ Home. Captain E. G. Morris, Director and Registrar of Naval Reserves, who has been visiting Christchurch, left for Dunedin yesterday. Dr. J. P. Colclough and Mr H. R. Scott, experts from England, who are investigating deposits of iron, coal and lime at Onekaka for the New Zealand Government, with Miss Amy Hooker, secretary to Dr. Colclough, left Greymouth yesterday on their return to Onekaka after having investigated certain deposits of coal on the West Coast. They were accompanied by Messrs G. A. Pascoe and Walter Bromley, representatives of the Government. Mr T. H. Langford, No. 3 Transport Licensing Authority, was a passenger for the north by the steamer express last night. The Hon. J. K. Archer, M.L.C., returned to Christchurch from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning. A tribute to the late Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., was paid at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Justices of the Poace Association last evening. Mr H. F. Herbert, the new president, said that Mr Mosley was a worthy man, who would be greatly missed. Mr J. W. Baty, J.P., was elected a life-mem-ber of the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association at the annual meeting last evening. Mr J. J. Hurley, retiring president, said that in the last 10 years Mr Baty, as registrar of the association, had not missed one meeting until his recent illness. Mr H. F. Herbert, who nominated Mr Baty for the life-membership, said that the registrar had been a tower of strength to the association. Mr Baty replied, expressing regret at leaving the work. Constable N. B. Oxnen, of the Lyttelton Police Force, was met by his fellow constables with several constables from Christchurch, at the Lyttelton Police Station, and presented with a mantel clock in recognition of his approaching marriage. The presentation was made by Senior-Sergeant D. Wilson, who conveyed to Constable Oxnen good wishes for his future happiness.