Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23130, 20 September 1940, Page 8

Personal Items

The Minister for Finance (the Hon, W. Nash) will visit Christchurch to-morrow. In the morning he will inspect the City Council’s cottages for aged persons, and other places of interest, and in the evening will be the Government representative at the soldiers’ opening of the new Welcome Club premises. At 7.30 p.m. he will speak to executive members of trade unions and members of Labour Party branches in the Radiant Hall, and on Sunday morning will preach at the Avonside Church. It is understood that the Minister will not‘receive any deputations. The Hon. Adam Hamilton, a member of the War Cabinet and Leader of the Opposition, arrived from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning. He was shown over the Union Jack Club, and left later in the morning for the south. He will return to Wellington tomorrow, after discussing the rural housing question with county council authorities. The chairman of the committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club (Mr A. S. Elworthy) arrived from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning. Major E. H. Whiting has been attached' to Army Headquarters, Wellington, for duty as publicity officer and has ceased to be seconded to Central Military District Headquarters for similar duty, according to the Gazette, Squadron Leader F. H. Dix has been granted a permanent commission in the Royal New Zealand Air Force under a notice appearing in the Gazette. Messrs R. Macdonald, of Waikuku, and D. R. Ogilvy, of Foxton, have been appointed members of the Flax Plan Industrial Committee, in place of Messrs A. G. Long and B. B. Wood, who have resigned. These changes in the committee were gazetted last night. Mr N. C. Manchester, of the Union Bank of Australia, has received notice of his transfer to Greymouth. Dr. H. G. Denham, chairman of the Wheat Research Institute, is at present in Lewisham Hospital. Yesterday the members of the institute passed a resolution of sympathy with him in his illness and wished him a quick recovery. Mr George Lamb has been re-elected chairman of directors of the Central Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd. Mr H. le Page, who will go into camp shortly, was presented with a writing outfit by the management committee of the Canterbury Hockey Association. Tribute was paid to his work on the committee. Mr Ivor Davy was awarded the long-service medal of the Canterbury Hockey Association at a recent meeting of the management committee. Special reference was made to his efforts to epcourage hockey among primary schoolboys. Mr H. C. Harley has retired from the presidency of the Automobile Association, Canterbury, after three years in office. At a meeting of the council of the association last evening, the last before the annual meeting next Wednesday, many tributes were paid to Mr Harley’s work. Mr Harley will be succeeded by Mr C. G. Curtis, who is president-elect, being the only nominee. Advice has been received by the National Patriotic Fund Board that Mr Victor C. Jones, who was general secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association in Wellington before he left for overseas with the New Zealand forces, and who has been acting as the board’s representative in Egypt, has been offered an appointment as staff captain with the British forces. Appreciation of Mr Jones’s service was expressed by the board at its meeting yesterday. It was decided to appoint Mr F..E. Long, another Young Men’s Christian Association secretary, to act as the board’s representative in Egypt till the board’s commissioner, Lieutenant-Colonel F. Waite, arrives there.—PrcsS Association*