PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18442, 18 April 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS

MINISTERIAL. The Hon F. J. Rolleston arrived in Christchurch this morning on his way to Dunedin. He will leave the southern city on his return to Wellington by the second express on Friday. Mr Eric Lawson has been a member of the Wellington Stock Exchange. Mr A. Hamilton, M.P.. for Wallace, was an arrival by this morning's ferry from the north. A vote of sympathy was passed at last night's meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Rugby Union with the relatives of the late Major W. ,T. Hardham, V.C., an ex-Wellington representative player. Mr S. F. Wilson said that the late Major Ilardham’s services to his country had undoubtedly hastened his end. Mr Guy B. Poppelwcll, o[ the Bank of New Zealand. Suva, arrived at Auckland on the Tofua. He has been in Suva for four and a-half years, ami has returned for a holiday, which will be spent in Hastings, his home town. Mr Poppelwell will return to Suva in two months’ time. Mr S. A. Maddocks, secretary to the Police Commissioner at Sydney, is at present in Wellington. Mr Maddocks is an executive member of the Traffic Advisory Committee, recently appointed to deal with traffic problems in New South Wales, and he has ljeen sent to New Zealand to investigate conditions here. He had a long interview with the Prime Minister (Right Hon. J. G. Coates) yesterday and later was metby officials of the Tramway Department. The Board of Trinity College of Music (London) announce the appointment of Mr C. Egerton Lowe, F.T.C.L., as the examiner for the college this year in practical subjects: Pianoforte, organ, violin, singing, elocution ensemble playing, etc. Mr Egerton Lowe received his musical education in Loudon and Leipzig, the pianoforte and violin being his principal subjects. He has had a very wide teaching connection in and around London, and has made a specialty of preparation for public examinations. He is a well-known leeturer and writer on musical subjects, and an adjudicator at important British and South African musical festivals. Mr Lowe is due in New Zealand on June IS by the Niagara, arriving at Auckland-

Mr Gordon S. Branthwaite, solicitor, of Westport, son of Mr H. Branthwaite, of Christchurch, is at present in the ‘“Limes” private hospital, where he has recently undergone an operation. Dr Cyril King, Palmerston North, who has been on a visit to Christchurch, returned north last evening. The Mayor (the Rev J. K. Archer) will leave for Wellington to-night for the purpose of attending a meeting of the executive of the Municipal Association. A motion was carried at to-day’s meeting of the Lyttelton Harbour Board expressing hopes for the speedy recovery of Mr W. K. M’Alpine, a member of the board, who is in hospital. Messrs G. Birdsall (Sydney). A. Kitidar, F. C. Palmer, and W. N. Anderson (Wellington) are amongst those registered at the United Service Hotel. Commodore G. T. C. P. Swabey, of H.M.S. Dunedin, accompanied by. his private secretary, paid a return visit to the Mayor, the Rev J. K. Archer, yesterday, and subsequently, with three other officers, was entertained to lunch by the Mayor on behalf of the city. Mr C. G. Ogilvie, who for some \ r ears was manager of the Union Bank of Australia in Christchurch, and who was afterwards inspector for the Dominion for the bank, arrived in Christchurch yesterday from Nelson, and is staying with Mr T. N. Gibbs, of Cashmere. The death is announced of Mr Charles Sims, R.A., the famous painter, at the age of fifty-five, says a cable from London. Mr Sims was made an R.A. in 1916 and A.R.A. in 1900. He was a member also of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, a Keeper and Trustee of the Royal Academy and a Trustee of the Tate Gallery. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1894, and many of his pictures have been purchased for permanent collections in various parts of the world, including that of the Canterbury Society of Arts.