PERSONAL.

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1927, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Miss Ashton (Blenheim) is the guest of Mrs Payne, Cowper Street. Mr and Mrs J. Medhurst (Blenheim) are the guests of Mr Charles Gleeson, Town Belt. Messrs O. Randle and D. M. Robertson left yesterday for Christchurch, to attend the Progress League Conference, which opens to-day. The death is recorded in a cable from Brisbane of Mr A. H. Whittingham, one of Queensland’s most prominent pastoralists and sportsmen. He was a native of New Zealand. Messrs A. Beban and J. D. Lynch leave to-day .for Wellington, where they will represent the West Coast Provincial Council at the United Licensed Victuallers’ Association’s Conference. , Mr Whiley, who succeeds Mr W. F. G. Pullin as Workshops Foreman at the Greymouth Railway workshops, arrives to-day. Mr Whiley has lately been Inspector of the locomotives beling built for the New Zealand Railway by Price’s, of Thames. Mr H. E. Holland, M.P., Leader of the Opposition, arrived in Greymouth yesterday, and to-day leaves for Christchurch, where he remains to-night, when he will attend a conference between the South Island Members of Parliament and the South Island Progress League delegates. He will proceed to-morrow to Wellington for the opening of the Parliamentary session on Thursday. Mr W. F. G. Pullin, who has been workshops foreman of the local rail way workshops for the past nine years, leaves for Invercargill next Tuesday. During his term in Greymouth Mr Pullin has officiated on the following public- bodies: Secretary, District High

School, Member of Board of Governors of Technical College, Hospital and Charitable Board, Cobden Town Board, Cobden School Committee, and Greymouth Patriotic Society. An Auckland wire states two Canadian bankers have arrived there by the Aorangi, Messrs P. C. Harrison, manager of the San Francisco Branch of the Bank of Montreal, and Mr A. S. Minnion, manager of the same bank’s foreign department. They intend to stay some weeks in New Zealand investigating the banking and trade conditions, in reference to certain commodities, and then go to Australia. Mr James Covle, of the Greymoutb P. and T. Department, was on the occasion of his recent marriage, made the recipient of a presentation by his fellow officers, consisting of sets.of silver knives, forks, spoons, and other cutlery. The Chief Postmaster, Mr D. M* Mclntosh, in making the presentation, spoke in eulogistic terms of the recipient, and his remarks were endorsed by Messrs G- S. Pratt and Sullivan, and Mr Coyle iesponded in appropriate terms. In view of his pending departure from the district, Mr J. Wylde was entertained by the residents of Barryiown on Saturday, and presented with a set of Loewe pipes, the gift being handed to the recipient by Mr J. Ryall, accompanied with a few happy remarks appropriate to the occasion. The hall was tastefullv decorated, and during the evening about 50 couples indulged in dancing. Mr Wylde duly thanked the residents for their gift, and Mr Byall for his kind words.

Napier’s Mavor, Mr J. Vigor Brown, has lost his office. Yesterday he was informed bv the Borough Solicitors, that due to a firm in which he was interested having sokl cement to tho Council in the year prior to his election. and for which the payment made after the election, he automatic ally forfeits his seat. The money concerned was repaid to the Go,lT ' rl the firm concerned, and this fa. the solicitors to the opinion that Mr Brown was eligible for re-election. The amount involved was £o7. Visitors to Christchurch stay, at Stonehurse Private Hotel, Latimer Square. Three minutes’ walk from shopping area and all theatres. The popular house for West Coast visitors. Full size billiard, table, wireless installation, ample bathroom accommodation. Grevmouth papers taken. Taifff H2/6 per day; £3/3/- per week. Te*egr.xms “Stonelea,” Telephone 2263.-' Advt.