PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Dr..S. D. Blrind is speuding the Eastev holidays at Pieton.. r ■ '■ Mr." "William George Hollo way, -who has becn^a member of the staff of the Christchu'rch City Council .'for the past seven years, has been appointed Assistant Town Clerk of Eastbourne. There were 130 applicants for the position. ■ ..'■■-.' ; Sympathy with Mr. S. S. Dean, cliairnian of the New Zealand Eugby Union, in the death in Auckland of his sister \yas expressed by Mr. A. C. Kitto on behalf of members at last night's meeting of the union's management committee. . . .■*:'.■ Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Todd, of Remueva, Auckland, will leave for Chiist-chui-ch tonight. - "■■;■■'.-'■ Thb Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) and Mrs. Hislop have left. Wellington to spend tho Easter vacation at Tongariro and Rotorua. Mr. Hislop will return to Wellington'about Ajiril 8. • The Yen. R, H. Cole,'who was Archdeacon of Taranaki from 1902 to 1912/ and for nearly- the- same period -was superintendent of home missions for-.the Auckland Diocese, has. returned to make his home again in Auckland after neaiv ly fifteen years' absence, accompanied by- Mrs. Cole, '■ their two .• daughters, and, Miss Hamilton, Mrs. Cole's Tsister. The archdeacon and his .family arrived from England by the Eaugitiki last month, and. have siueo been visiting Hawke's Bay.. . ■ . . . . ..-■ . I . Mr. 1\ L. Parsonage leaves by tic Limited Expiess tonight for Auckland, whence "ho is to leave by the Niagara on Tuesday for an extended trip abroad. While overseas: Mr. Parsonage will represent -the Wellington district at: the Centenary High Court of the Ancient Order of Foresters, to be held at Nottingham, England, in August. ■■-'■■ The death oceuired in London on March 23 of Mr. : Harry A. Aitken, states'a Dunedih report.•• Mi-. Aitken was a brilliant student at .the Otago Boys' High School, from 'which he won a junior university scholarship in 1923, the same year as-Harold'Taylor, another student who distinguished himself "at the. university. Subsequently proceeding to Otago University,-Mr. Aitken took honours in chemistry and showed' considerable promise in research. He acted for some- time as chemist in connection with goitre research and jeancer researchj and in. collaboration :with. 3}'r,"'A.-'XI. Begg pubHsKetl ;a piper on.Cancer Research" in oho of the Home ' medical journals. He went Homo about twd> years ago- to pursue- his' studies, and at ' Edinburgh worked under Professor- Barger. Only a few. months ago he passed the exanxination for F.I.C- His "death removes one for Whom"was predicted a;brilliant future in the field : of research." ?The deceased::jra^ a.yo.urigcy brbther-p£ Dr. A.:C: ■Aitkeny of Edinburgh^ and-'alSo of Mr. .I/;' M.."■ Ajtken) };ot;"ihje sub-; editorial -. stafE' oi the :.■Christehurch '.'Press." ..-.!'■"■'.• . :. ' ■'■'"'• : ■''■■• . Among the .guests at the Hotel St. George are Messrs. E. A. Barker (Hastings) E.-W. Foskey (Sydaey), C-: Wells (London), James Fletcher: (Auckland). ■ Visitors to" Wellington-who are: stayr. ing at the* Royal Oak Hotel are Messrs. C.-.--H. Davies (Wanganui), .Major Bridgeford- (Auckland), M. . Gamble .(Levin), J; A. Innes.(Timaru), J. Wilks (Christehurch). ;- . •- Messrs. W. W. Satterthwaite and D. C. Bennie (Dunedin), •G. S. Todd (Hawera), T. Bowie, J.'ThoniaSj and'H. W. Taylor (Auckland), E. J. Grieve (England) are staying at the-Empire Hotel. . .'. , . t Guests at the" Grand Hotel include Messrs. J. E. McDonald (panneVirke), P. - Farvacque, and R. Montelier (France)'. v .■ . '~ ." . ', \ ; ::: Ambrig1" the' 'guests', at -'tie :"Midhind: Hotel are' Messrs. C. S. Seager ' (London), E. Morgan (England); James M. Kerr (Melbourne), »Charles ' Moody (Auckland), E. T. Pleasants (Christchurch.), C. A. Kilkelly (London), Heather J.-. Stewart (Murchison)-, Mr. A. Moody (Auckland). . ; M^r. Haywood Mirams, deputy chairman of the Mayor .& Relief:, Committee, who has been on a health . recruiting visit to Rotoiua, refurnod' to Wellington yesterday. Mr; Mirams will resume his relief .-duties at the- Town Hall immediately after Easter^ •; . ■: '■.>■'. A Press Association message . states that Mr.- Noel Clement Harding,. Town Clerk.of. Fending, has been appointed Town Clei'k of Hastings in succession to. Mr. Percy R; Purser, who has been Town Clerk of Hastings for twenty years and is now about to retire. Mi-. Harding 4s" 39 yeats of-- agev and ha 3 been' Town Cleijc of: Feilding' for ten years', -- '- -He is a: Fellow -: of jth'e Institute, of. Certified' Secretaries.;'■ :. :.i .". ■