PERSONALS

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18585, 10 October 1928, Page 8

PERSONALS

A motion of sympathy with Mr Syd Hickmott in the death of his fathet was passed by the Canterbury Rugby Union at its meeting last evening. Mr F. W. Brinsden, a member of the Auckland City Council, underwent a serious operation in a private hospital on Friday. Mr Justice MacGregor will go to Dunedin on October 25 to take the criminal sittings at the end of the month, and other business. Mr L. B. Beale, British Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, is now due at Singapore on his return to the Dominion. He will conduct a special investigation into general trade conditions and prospects of British trade in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, and expects to leave for Wellington about the middle of December, arriving about a month later.

Mr J. M. Adam, who for eighteen months has occupied the position of Official Assignee, Registrar and Clerk of the Court at the Invercargill Court office and has been promoted to the position of Official Assignee and Registrar of the Supreme Court in Dunedin, has taken up his new duties. Mr J. Wood (chairman of the Waimakariri River Trust) was unable to attend yesterday's meeting of the trust as he had entered a hospital ui Wellington to undergo an operation. In a letter to the tru&t, Mr Wood said that it would be four or five weeks before he would be able to return to work, and he regretted that he would not be able to come to Christchurch for the loan poll on October 01. It was decided to send a letter of sympathy to Mr Wood.

Mr W. T. Tregurtha, Assistant-Dis-trict Rauway’ Traffic Manager, is at present on the West Coast. *L Mr *P* ? T . itchcoc k. general manager of the Municipal Electricity Department, left last night for Wellington, whence ne will return to Christchurch to-mor-row morning. Mr George M. Hall, manager for Booth, Macdonald and Co., Ltd., left last night for Hastings. He expects to be back early next week. Mr Justice Adams has returned to Christchurch from Wellington, and will preside over a sitting of the Supreme Court here on Monday next. Mr A. Ibbotson, general manager of the Perpetual Trustees Company, Ltd., will arrive in Christchurch this evening. Messrs O. L. Baxter, S. T. Reed (Auckland) ; H. C. Murray, H. G. Hewitt (Wellington) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. Messrs John Fraser (Oamaru); C. C. Gillham, L. F. Boyes, J. R. M’Kenzie, F. V. Saunderson, J. H. Kerr and F. C. Allen (Wellington) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Arrivals By this morning's ferry steamer included the Hon G. M. Thompson, the Hon J. Moore, M.L.C.. the Hon T. D. Fleming, M.L.C.. Colonel the Hou G. J. Smith, M.L.C., and Messrs H. S. S. Kyle, M.P., W. Uru, M.P., and J. Bitchener, M.P. Appreciation of services rendered by Mr G. IT. Lusk in amateur athletics is expressed in the annual report of the Wellington A.A. Centre. Mr Lusk retired from the position of centre delegate on the New Zealand Council ow-

ing to being transeferred to Palmerston North, and Mr G. S. Bright, who is keenly interested in the cycling section of the sport, was elected to fill the Vacancy. After nine years’ service as minister of the Auckland Unitarian Church, the Rev Albert Thornhill has accepted a unanimous call from the congregation of the Hyde Park Unitarian Church, Sydney, and will leave at the end of December to take up his new duties.