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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 8

PERSONAL

MINISTERIAL. The Hon G. W. Forbes (Minister of Lands and Agriculture) will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow morning and will leave by the evening express for Invercargill, where he will represent the Government at the Royal Agricultural and Pastoral Show. He will leave Invercargill on his return to Wellington on Thursday next. The Minister of Education (the Hon H. Atmore) was in Christchurch yesterday. He took the opportunity during the day to visit a number of the educational institutions in the city. He returned north last evening. The Hon E. A. Ransom, who became ill on Thursday at a Cabinet meeting, has now practically recovered. The Hon T. K. Sidey, Leader of the Legislative Council, was a passenger from the north this morning. Mr J. A. E. Erskine (Melbourne) is visiting Christchurch. Dr Dobson and Dr Gibb were passengers on this morning’s ferry steamer. Archdeacon and Mrs Williams arrived from the north this morning. Mr P. F. Castle (Wellington) is a guest at the United Service Hotel. Mr A. A. Browne has been appointed Wellington manager for Messrs Adams, Ltd., motor importers. Mr F. J. Shanks, who was recently appointed Chief Postmaster at Christchurch, has taken up his duties here. Mr Norton Francis arrived from Wellington by this morning’s ferry ‘steamer. Dr Marsden, Director of Scientific Research, arrived in Christchurch from Wellington this morning. The High Commissioner-elect, the Hon T. M. Wilford, K.C., accompanied

by Mrs Wilford, leaves for London today by the Rangitiki. Professor Blunt, of Canterbury College, left by last night’s boat for Wellington. Mr J. J. Clark, Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New Zealand, arrived from the north yesterday. He will be in Christchurch over the week end. Mr Sydney Francis Hoben, who iiv tends to spend his Christmas .vacation in Australia, has been engaged to give two pianoforte recitals for the Australian Broadcasting Company, station 2FC, Sydney, and one recital from 3LO, Melbourne.

Mr lan Hamilton, who has been transferred to the Timaru branch of Messrs Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., left by the south express yesterday. Mr T. R. Leithead, manager of the Kaiapoi Woollen Mills, is resigning his position at the end of the year after forty-one years’ service, for twentyseven of which he has been manager of the mills. Mr. A. W. Lipscomb, agricultural inspector at the Christchurch Technical College, has been given leave of absence from March 1 till November, 1930, to investigate agricultural education in England and Europe. Mr L. R. R. Denny has been given leave of absence for the same time, to enable him to study educational methods in England. The Bishop of Nelson (Dr W. C. Sedlier) will leave for Wellington on February 12, en route to London, where he will attend the Lambeth Conference, which will be held from July 9 to August 9. The Bishop expects to be away about a year, and during his absence the Vicar-General t>f the Diocese, Archdeacon Dart, of Nelson, will be his locum tenens. The call from St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church to the Rev Lawson Robinson, of Invercargill, will be submitted again for signature at St Andrew’s Church on Sunday, and will be presented to the Christchurch Presbytery on Tuesday next. From there it will be forwarded to Mr Robinson, who will then have the opportunity of accepting or declining it. Mr Robinson has not yet given a decision, as has been stated, in regard to the matter. The Rev J. E. Draper, of Opotiki, has been appointed vicar of the parish of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Auckland, in succession to the Rev G. Gordon Bell, who has been appointed vicar of St Andrew’s Church, Cambridge, and Archdeacon of Waikato. Mr Draper was educated under the late Canon Foster at St Paul’s Missionarv College, Burgh, in the diocese of Lincoln, England. While still a student he saw service in the Great War. Upon his return he passed the examination for the licentiate of theology of the University of Durham. He was ordained deacon to the Bishop of Waipu by the Bishop of London in St Paul’s in 1921 and was ordained a priest by the Bishop of Waipu in 1922. On reaching New Zealand, he was appointed curate of Dannevirke, where he remained until 1923, when he was appointed curate of Hastings. He left Hastings in 1925 to becoihe vicar of Opotiki.