PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19075, 21 May 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL.

The Rev E. C. Crosse arrived from the north this? morning. Mr W. Hayward was a pasengef from the north by this morning’s ferry steamer. Mr G. W. R. Osborne was elected president of the Ellesmere A. and P. Association at the annual meeting. Mr 11. Tallott has been re-elected chairman of the North Canterbury Electric Power Board. Mr J. F. Studholm left last evening for Wellington, cn route for England. He will spend nearly a year abroad. Mr W. 11. West was elected president of the New Zealand Utility Poultr3* Club at the annual meeting last evening. Messrs J. Harris (Napier!, T. W. Wallace, I. L. Buxton (Wellington), and R. L. Raymond (Dunedin) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. Mr Walter A. I laden, of the Christchurch Drainage Board’s staff, has been appointed secretary to the Kaipara Hospital Board, Dargaville. Messrs W. H. West and C. W. Tritt were elected life members of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club at the annual meeting held last evening. The lion D. Buddo is at present paving a business trip to the North Island. He will probably return to Christchurch on Friday. A vote of condolence with the relatives of the late Mr J. C. Prudhoc was passed at the annual meeting of the Canterbury School Committees’ Association last evening. Messrs L. P. Knox, R. F. Hollands, C. Monfo (Wellington), R. R. Bare: (Paris), and J. Ireland (Palmerston North) are recent arrivals at the United Service Hotel. Mr A. Baxter, who intends visiting Australia, was >-esterday granted leave of absence from the meetings of the North Canterbury Electric Power Board. In the annual report of the Christchurch Bowling Club, mention was made of the loss the club had sustained in the deaths of Messrs F. W. Broughton and David Bates. The Drainage Board at a meeting in committee a few days ago, passed a motion expressing sympathy with the chairman, Mr H. J. Otley, in the death of his father, Mr J. Otley. Mr L. A. Paish, British Trade Commissioner, arrived in Christchurch from the north yesterday morning. This morning he paid a visit to Lyttelton in the company of the members of the Harbour Board. Five Presb3’terian missionaries are at present in Auckland on furlough from the Punjab, India. These are the Rev and Mrs T. E. Riddle, Nurse E. 11. Elliott and Misses B. J. Ilardie and D. M. Mathew. Mr C. B. Trimnell, Wellington manager for Messrs Bing, Harris and Co. Ltd., who was formerly- manager at Christchurch, left by the Makura yesterday for a six-months’ holiday visit to the United States, Great Britain, and the Continent. The vice-president of the Canterbury* Chamber of Commerce, Mr 11. S. E. Turner, will be leaving New Zealand for some time at the end of this month, and in order to allow an opportunity for members of the Council of the Chamber to meet him before his departure, a luncheon is being given in his honour on Tuesday, May 27. Mr W. E. Leadley and Mr E. F. Willcox (secretary) will be the delegates from the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association, to the annua! conference of the New Zealand R.S.A., to be held in Wellington on June 24. The president of the Christchurch R.S.A., Mr G. A. Hayden, will attend the conference in his capacity of one of the vice-presidents of the New Zealand R.S.A.

Representative Natix-es of Poverty* Bay gathered at Lady Carroll’s resi dence last week to bid farewell to Judge and Mrs H. Carr, who are leaving for Rarotonga, where Judge Carr is to take up temporary duty* during the absence on leave of the resident commissioner, Judge Hugh Ayson. The esteem in which the Maoris hold Judge and Mrs Carr was shown by the gift of a beautiful flax cloak and a handsome bag to Mrs Carr and well-fitted suitcase to her husband. Mr Henare Ruru made the presentations, and expressed in the warmest terms the goodwill in which Judge and Mrs Carr were held by members of his rare. Judge and Mrs Carr sailed from Wellington by the Makura.