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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18935, 4 December 1929, Page 8

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MINISTERIAL. The Hon H. Atmore, Minister of Education, will arrive from the south to-morrow and will remain in Christchurch with the Parliamentary Education Commission until Tuesday next. The Hon T. K. Sidey, {AttorneyGeneral and Leader of the Legislative Council, and the Hon P. A. de la Perrelle, Minister of Internal Affairs, passed through Christchurch last night on their way to Wellington. Mr D. A. Aitken arrived from the north this morning. Lieutenant-Colonel F. Symon, Director of Artillery, arrived from the north this morning. Mr J Anderson was a passenger from the north by this morning’s ferry steamer. The Hon W.*H. Triggs and Mrs Triggs are returning to New Zealand by the Ruahine, which is due at Wellington to-morrow. The Mayor (the Rev J. K. Archer) was to have left last night for Wellington to attend a meeting of the executive of the Municipal Association, but, owing to other engagements, was not able to go. The Mayor of Wellington (Mr G. A. Troup), who is a vice-president of the Royal Agricultural Show, will leave Wellington for the south on Monday next to attend the Royal Show at Invercargill. lie will return on December 16.

Mr A. F. Grimble, Resident Commissioner in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, arrived at Auckland by the Maunganui on his way back to his headquarters at Ocean 'lsland, after a year’s leave. Mr W. Machin, of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd, contemplates a business trip to England next year. He will travel via Australia, and will probably sail from Sydney on the Orsova, which leaves on February 1. He will return at the end of July. Mr H. A. Parton, who was awarded his M.Sc. degree with first-class honours in chemistry at Canterbury College last year, and is now holding a position in the New Zealand Refrigerating Company’s laboratory, has been elected an associate member of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland. Two of the three life members of the Canterbury Master Builders’ Association, Messrs H. Pearce and J. Greig, were present at the monthly meeting last evening, and they were given a welcome by the president, Mr W. P. Glue. “Things are looking up when our life members take an interest in us,” he said.