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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19154, 21 August 1930, Page 6

PERSONAL.

Mr Erling Aagaard leaves Christchurch to-night for Hamilton to join the staff of the Para Rubber Company-. Mr J. Parlane was re-elected president of the Canterbury Herd-testing Association at the annual meeting yesterday. Messrs 11. A. L. Pine, Francis A. Drake (Wellington) and F. R. Raine (London) are guests at the United Service Hotel. The appointment of Mr L. F. Round as an honorary- ranger in the _ North Canterbury acclimatisation district was notified at last night's meeting of the society*. Professor A. H. Tocker. of Canterbury- College, who was the Government representative at the International Labour Conference at Geneva, is a passenger by the. Niagara, which is due in Auckland on September 8, At last night’s annual meeting of the St Andrew’s College Old Boys’ Association, it was decided to recognise in some tangible way the services of the Rev Dr Erwin as chaplain of the college and chairman of the Board of Governors. Mr E. Eldridge, secretary of the Christchurch Retail Fruiterers’ Association, left for Wellington last evening to give evidence before the Parliamentary Industries and Commerce Committee now investigating the marketing conditions of fruit and produce. According to a jjrivate letter received in Auckland Mr Zane Grey- has cancelled his proposed visit to Auckland in December next. lie had intended to use Mercury Island as a base camp during the swordfishing season, but has now decided not to come to New Zealand until his yacht, Fisherman, is ready to again cross the Pacific. Mr Grey will probably- visit New Zealand in the 1931 season. At a meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Patriotic Fund yesterday-, a motion of condolence with the widow and family of the late Mr J. A. Flesher was passed. Mr Fleslier was elected a member of the executive of the fund in 1914 as the representative of the Borough of New Brighton, and was also an ex-officio member while Mayor of Christchurch from 1923 to 1925.