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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18958, 2 January 1930, Page 8

PERSONAL.

■VICEREGAL. Thefr Excellencies the Governor-Gen eral and Lady Alice Fergusson, who the patroness of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, have accepted the chamber's invitation to be their guests at a members’ luncheon on Thursday, January 16, the occasion of their Excellencies’ farewell visit to this city. The function will be held in the Winter Garden, Armagh Street. Mr E. Lutterell was a passenger from Sydney by the Marama. Visitors to the Dominion for its scenic and fishing attractions who arrived by the Marama from Sydney included General G. Macarthur Onslow. Mr J. A. C. Bond, New Zealand superintendent for the New Zealand Shipping Company, arrived at Auckland by the Rangitata from London. Mr H. Horton, of Auckland, who has been on a visit to London, was a passenger from London by the Rangitata, which arrived at Auckland on Monday. Sir Owen Cox, chairman and managing director of Birt and Company, Limited, is retiring and will be succeeded by Mr T. S. Gordon, who formerly represented Birts in New Zealand. Mr A. R. Jordan. District Public Trustee, Christchurch, will take his annual leave during January, and in his temporary absence, Mr J. Dolph, first assistant, will take over his duties. Mr F. D. Helmore (Christchurch), Mr C. G. M'Kellar (Christchurch), Mr D. H. S. Riddiford (Wairarapa) and Mr C. S. Teschemaker (South Canterbury) returned from a trip to England by the Rangitata. Dr W. Littlejohn, the principal of Scots College, Melbourne, arrived in Wellington by the Marama from Sydney on a holiday trip to the Dominion. Messrs James S. Duke, H. Duke and C. Robinson ( Wellington) are among the guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr I. Van Staveren returned to Wellington by the Marama on Tuesday. Mr W. A. James, New Zealand Government representative at Vancouver, was a passenger by the Aorangi to Auckland. Mr James is making his first visit to New Zealand after twentyfive years’ residence in Vancouver. An Auckland telegram records the death of Mr John Marshall, a veteran patron of many sports, in his eightysecond year. He was one of the oldest members and stewards of the Auckland Racing Club, and was a prominent owner in the early days of racing in Auckland. Mr George Armstrong, Mayor of Akaroa, has been confined to his bed during the last few days, owing to an attack of influenza. Mr Armstrong, who was to have been commodore at the Akaroa Regatta yesterday, has scarcely missed any of those annual fixtures for over thirty years. Captain J. Trussell, of Wanganui, has been presented with a silver-mounted baton and a “ scrap of paper.” The Mayor, Mr W. J. Rogers, in making the presentation on behalf of the citizens of Wanganui, referred to Captain’s Trussell's forty-eight years of band work, in thirty-one of which he has also acted as secretary to the Wanganui Garrison Band. Dr Edward Taylor, who in June last was appointed by the North Canterbury Hospital Board second assistant medical officer at the board’s tuberculosis institutions, arrived in Christchurch on Tuesday and took up his duties. Dr Taylor is a graduate of Otago University. For a period he was on the junior medical staff at the Christchurch Hospital, serving six months in the bacteriological laboratory and eight months at the tuberculosis institutions. In the early part of last year, Dr Taylor left the Dominion to obtain experience in tuberculosis work , and was house surgeon at the City of London Hospital for diseases of the chest, and was also on the medical staff of the Middlesex Sanatorium at Harefield for about three months.