PERSONAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 229, 31 October 1914, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr F. A. -Airey has' been chosen &S> tjie; Auckland candidate for "the New Zealand Rhod.es Scholarship. Accompanied by his, wife and daughMr Moffat, the well-fcnowiiu Scottish arrived frdm Wellington this morning. ....y'\'. - - Messrs 6K; "Garlick,, (-Djjrsley, ; land.,), D. and Baggett -XWangajaiii.X arriyed ,towxt. last evening, ;, .and ; are staying, at the, Clarendon Hotel. v • » ; -v. t . , f A- Sydney message announces that,, after inspecting work at Port Jaek ; : son, Di\Moitensen, Marine Biologist; of"the Copenhagen l l! leave for New Zealand next'week. ;; - Mr Graham Moffat, famous as the author of "Bunty Pulls the Strings,'.* arid as an" actor in the equally, famous company of Scottish .players who pro-, duce the comedy, arrived in Christchurch this morning from Wellington* The company will open its season this evening; ~' ■ . . . ' The E,ev. John Paterson, of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Christehurch, hastaken up -the honorary position of general secretary to the Canterbury-Westland Central Committee of .the Bible-in-Schools Lestgue, the position which, was held by the Rev. John Mackenzie until his departure for Melbourne. Mr Paterson's help will be of especml value r he having been educated under the New South Wales system, and also for. 11 years given Scriptural instruction under that system. Mr Paterson was one of the witnesses who recently gave evidence on behalf of the league before the Parliamentary Evidence Committed