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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19133, 28 July 1930, Page 3

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Mr Vincent Ward spent the week-end in Christchurch. Messrs 11 K Anson and R A Colee have been appointed members of the Courtenay Domain Board. Messrs D. E. Wanklyn and R M. D. Morten have been appointed members of the Board of Trustees of the Christchurch Racecourse. Mr P. W. Pawson. Railway Commercial Agent, returned to Christchurch from Wellington yesterday. Dr D. L. Freeman, of Hastings, has been appointed instructor in agriculture at Nelson. The Colonial Auxiliary Forces' Long Service Medal has been awarded to Lieutenant P. G. Thomson, of the Wei lington Regiment. Mr John Anderson, jun., who is on a business visit to Australia, leaves Sydney by the Ulimaroa on Friday on bis return to Christchurch. Mr J. E. Henrys leaves Auckland to* Palmerston North on Wednesday and will arrive in Christchurch on Saturday morning. Mr Tohn Montgomery left Vancouver last week by the Aorangi on his return to New Zealand. He is due in Christchurch about August 13. Messrs R. M. Evans (Leicester. England), E. A. A. Thorne and G. P. Valentine (Wellington) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr S. V. M’Ewen leaves Christchurch for Wellington this week to take up hx& new duties as editor of the ' New Zealand Referee”. Messrs R. JV Irving. P Kidd, J. R. Macaulay, W. H. Mackenzie, C. T. Norton, W. Simpson and H. G. Waters have been appointed members of the Mount Nessing Domain Board. Mr W. D. Andrews, a life member of the Invercargill Orphans’ Club, who is on a visit to Christchurch, was a guest at Saturday night’s korero of the Christchurch Savage Club. He was wcl coined by-Savage Dr H. Robinson Hall Mr W. Hayward, chairman of the Christchurch Tramway Board, has been appointed a member of the Transport Appeal Board of the No. 10 Motor Omnibus District, in succession to Mr J A. Flesher. Mr G. M. Hall, who represented the Canterbury Employers’ Association at the meeting, held in Wellington on Friday, of representatives of all the employers’ associations in the Dominion, to discuss the Government’s Relief of Unemployment Bill, returned to Christchurch on Saturday. Mr E. Philpot-Crowther, honorary secretary to the Port Christchurch League, was met by members on Saturday, and, for his services to the league, was presented by Mr C. S M’Cully, chairman, with a wallet of notes. Mr R. B Owen also thanked Mr Philpot-Crowther for his services The Rev E. E. Malden, of St Chad’s, Linwood, for many years a member of the council of the Society for Imperia. Culture, is leaving shortly for Amberley. At Saturday’s meeting ol the society, the president, Professor J. Shelley, spoke of Mr Malden’s ent ausiastic work for the society, and wished him every luck in the future. After forty years’ service in the Rail ways Department, Mr P. C. Coldicutt, late officer in charge of the inward goods at the Auckland station, has retired on superannuation. Mr Coldicutt’s first appointment was in 1890 at Featherston. He was later stationed at Wanganui, Auckland, Kawakawa Helensville, Belfast, Invercargill, and again at Auckland, where he had been for the last ten years. Mr B. L. Hammond having resigned his position on the staff of the Wellington Employers’ Association, with a view to commencing business on his own account, the association’s staff assembled to bid him farewell. Mr Ross, on behalf of the staff, presented Mr Hammond with a marble pen stand and two fountain pens. Regret was expressed at the severance of the happy relations which had existed between Mr Hammond and the staff. Mr Hammond suitably responded. Mr Peter Menzies, who has retired from the position of president of the Christchurch Pioneer Sports Club, after having held that office for ten years, was presented at the annual meeting of the club, on Saturday evening, with an easy chair. Mr A. Donaldson, the new president, made the presentation, and paid a tribute to the many years of service Mr Menzies hail devoted to sport, and to the club Messrs P. R. Harman, R. Wallace, R. N. Parker and F. M. Collins also spoke Mr Menzies, in reply, thanked members for the gift, and promised to continue his interest in the club’s activities. There died on Friday, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs Bull, Hutt Road, Petone. Mr James Collett, who has been a well-known resident of Petone for many years. He was born within a stone’s-throw of the place where he died, in 1846. and so must have been among the first white children born in the district. During the whole of his life he never left Petone, states the “ Post.” He was best known as the borough foreman, a position which he held abo;ut twenty years ago, since when he has lived in retirement. His wife predeceased him, and he leaves two sons, Messrs J. Collett and H. Collett, and two daughters, Mesdames Bull and Hansen, all of Petone. There are ten grandchildren.

China for tea time. Quite an opportunity at Minsons if you can do with a teaset really cheap. A score or so in the window to be cleared regardless of cost. 6