PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 13

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Minister for Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) arrived by steamer - ; ' from the south this morning. '-> Lord and Lady Willingdon," ""accompanied by Lord Willirigdon's private -\, secretary,; Lord Errington, flew to "* Dunedin today. Mr. Gordon Fraser, New Plymouth, ..'* vice-president of the Associated Cham- \ bers of Commerce, is visiting Wellington to attend a meeting of the execu- ,-s tive of the association; . x The Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) and ■; Councillors T. H. Forsyth and P. M. . • Butler were appointed delegates to the forthcoming Municipal Conference by ' the Wellington City Council last night. _j Mr. H. N. Burns, secretary of th« - New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, ~.. = has tendered his resignation because ' \ of his enlistment in the Second- , Echelon of the Special Force. His re- ~/~' signation has been accepted by the •.». committee with regret, and tributes --. were paid to the service he had re,n- .' x* dered the association. Mr. H. F. 80l- ;_ lard has been appointed acting secre- ■; ! tary until the annual meeting .of the •■.]'. council. ' . .' Mr. A. G. Protheroe, a student of \ Canterbury University College, has been awarded they > Arnold Atkinson, s. 4 ,, Memorial Prize by the Senate of the \ s University of New Zealand. The prize •"- is awarded in a competition held.every - ,two years for an essay on the subject, ;J "Present-day problems, of population^ : as they affect the future of the British.-'. Commonwealth of Nations." * The 1937 V competition was won by Mr. N. C. r;' Phillips, also a student of. Canterbury > .'.- University College. ■ , " . - Jy, The Rev. Dr. J. G. Inkster. (stated -\ supply in St John's Church) and Mrs.- ;; Inkster have left for a-short tour in, £, the North Island. This afternoon he is speaking to the- English-speaking -. ■„-' Union, and this evening at theJßurns -«" annual dinner, and on Sunday morn- ,?- ing in Stj Andrew's Church, Hastings.,. ■;,, On Sunday evening he will speak ,in~ ' ; St. Paul's Church, Napier. On Monday • they will leave to visit four of-'the -, Presbyterian Maori. Mission stations. -.-; Thereafter they will make a round of /: the thermal springs at Rotorua and' • the caves at Wajtomo. From , there../ they will return to Wellington, and - ;,, Dr. Inkster will preach in Sf. John's N Church on Sunday, February 4. " Mr. C. R.. Davis, of the engineering T; staff of the Otago Harbour Board, has , _>'\ "been appointed engineer to .the Napier, v.j Harbour Board in place of Mr»"G. W. '-~ B. Lowson, who h"as resigned. "' --. 1