PERSONALS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18804, 5 July 1929, Page 8

PERSONALS.

MINISTERIAL. The Minister of Justice (the Hon T. M. Wilford), who has been confined to his house since Saturday with an attack of influenza, expects to be able to resume his Parliamentary duties at the end of the week. The Minister of Agriculture ( the Hon G. W. Forbes) and the Minister of Labour (the Hon W. A. Veitch), who is member for the district, left Wellington for Wanganui to-day to attend the Wanganui Show, and to meet the Wanganui and District Development League for the purpose of discussing land settlement matters. The Ministers will return on Sunday or Monday. Captain 11. Munro arrived from Wellington this morning. Mr 11. T. Dugdale was a passenger for the north last evening en route to England. Mr 13. C. Wacher (Dunedin) was a through passenger for Auckland last evening. Sir Heaton Rhodes and Colonel the Hon G. J. Smith were passengers on this morning’s ferry steamer. Mr and Mrs W. Ileughan arrived bv the Maheno from Sydney on Tuesday. Mr Ileughan will open a concert tour at Whangarei. Major A. A. Corrigan and Messrs C. J. Eskell (Wellington), C. M. NickwhPe (Auckland) and D. Cosey (Sydney) are amongst those registered at Warner’s Hotel. Dr P. Marshall, geologist to the Public Works Department, returned to Wellington by the Marama from Sydney. Dr Marshall attended the PanPacific Scientific Conference at Java. Mr J. E. L. Cull, designing engineer for the Public Works Department, left Auckland for Samoa on Tuesday by the Maui Pomare, accompanied by Mrs Cull. Sir Truby King left by the Tahiti yesterday for Sydney on business connected with the Plunket Society. He expects to be absent about a fortnight. Mr C. J. Ronaldson, who recently visited the United States as a representative of New Zealand Rotarians, to attend the Dallas Convention, has returned to Christchurch. Mr C. P. Agar, a past president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, was welcomed last night by the council of the chamber upon his return from a visit to America. Mr C. E. Whitaker, managing director of Deuchar Company, Ltd., has been elected chairman of the Overseas Shipping Representatives’ Association in Australia, says a message from Sydney. Guests at the United Service Hote l include Messrs G. W. Heinbuch (Toronto, Canada), R. S. Irvine (Wellington), A. Pratt (Dunedin), A. E. Meaden (Birmingham) and James Thornell (Sydney). A hearty vote of thanks to the Hon G. Witty, M.L.C., for his services as president of the ’Canterbury Park Trotting Club during the past two years, was carried unanimously at the annual meeting of the club yesterday. Mr A. G. Cannons, officer in charge of the Department of Industries and Commerce, Christchurch, was welcomed as a member of the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, at the meeting of the council last night. Votes of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr J. M. Mitchell and the late Mr Christopher Atkinson, who were members of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, were passed by the council of the chamber last night. Mr D. B. Macgregor, son of Mr Justice Macgregor, who has been studying for ordination at Westcott House. Cambridge, intends to spend a month of the long vacation touring Germany with a friend. He will be ordained in September, and do two years’ work in England before returning to New Zealand. Mr W. W. Thorpe, ethnologist of the Australian Museum, Sydney, arrived in Auckland by the Maheno. He will advise and help in the display of exhibits at the War Memorial Museum. Mr Thorpe has had thirty years’ experience, and was trained in ethnology at the Australian Museum, where he is chief scientific officer. He was in New Zealand five years ago on a health trip, and at that time he visited all the museums in the Dominion. He will be in Auckland about three months. “To all of us he was a vivid and outstanding personality, as well as a great journalist,” stated the president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce (Mr H. S. E. Turner) at the meeting of the council of the chamber last night, in paying a tribute to the memory of the late Mr M. C. Keane, editor of the Christchurch “ Press.” Members of the council stood in silence for a few moments in respect to Mr Keane’s memory, and the secretary was instructed to forward a letter of condolence to the relatives. Mr E. J. Riches, who is at present on the statistical staff of the International Labour Office at Geneva, has been awarded a post-graduate scholarship of the University of New Zealand. He left Cambridge College in 1926 to take up his present appointment, and since then he has sat for the New Zealand University examinations in London He is an old boy of Timaru High School. In 1927 he was senior scholar in economics. This scholarship he did not take up, preferring to continue his work at Geneva. He has received two years’ leave of absence to take up the scholarship and will do research work in Australia and New Zealand. Major J. T. Watson, secretary of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association, has been granted leave of absence from that body, and has been ordered to take a well-deserved rest. At the last meeting of the executive of the association it was announced that Major Watson would be leaving shortly on a health-recruiting trip. It was stat ed that Major Watson’s activities on behalf of the returned soldiers had been varied and onerous, and that he had worked indefatigably in the interests of the association and the “ diggers,” particularly those in hospitals and other institutions, and those requiring employment or assistance. Appreciation of the services of Mr F. S. Pope was made at the Fruit Growers’ Conference dinner in Wellington, when Mr T. C. Brash, president of the Fruit Growers’ Federation, made a presentation to Mr Pope on behalf of the fruit growers of the Dominion. Mr Brash said that while Mr Pope had occupied the position of Assistant-Di-rector of Agriculture he had been a counsellor and friend to all primary producers. The fruit growers of New Zealand felt that they could not allow Mr Pope to retire without some mark of the esteem in which he was held, and on their behalf he handed Mr Pope a case of pipes and a tobacco pouch. Upon his retirement from the position of locomotive engineer for the North Island railways, Mr J. F. Macl: ley was farewelled by members of the railway service on Monday evening. Mr Mackley has been for 39* years with the Railway Department. In making the presentation of a canteen of cutle'v on behalf of the stall, Mr E. Casey, divisional superintendent of the North Island Railways, referred eulogistically to Mr Mackley’s long service, and while regretting his departure, voiced the

staff's appreciation of his kindnesses. In reply Mr Mackley spoke of the cordial relationship that had always existed between himself and the various officers and staff.