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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19238, 27 November 1930, Page 7

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MINISTERIAL. The Minister of Public Works, the Hon W. B. Taverner, arrived in Christchurch from the south last evening and went on to Wellington by the ferry steamer. The Minister of Health (the Hon A. J. Stall worthy) returned to Wellington from Auckland yesterday. The Postmaster-General (the Hon J. B. Donald), arrived in Wellington today from the north. The Minister of Agriculture (the Hon A. J. Murdoch), who has been visiting the Ruakura State Farm, arrived back in Wellington to-day. The Minister of Education (the Hon 11. Atmore) returned to Wellington from Nelson this morning. Dr Trotter, Mayor of Riverton, who has been staying with Mr R. Wallace, Rugby Street, has left for Rotorua. Sir James Gunson, managing director of the Gilmore Oil Company, New Zealand, Ltd., arrived in Christchurch from the north this morning. Mr J. Macgibbon, manager of the Christchurch branch of the Bank of New Zealand, returned from Wellington this morning. A motion of sympathy with Mr E. A. M. Leaver, in the death of his wife, was passed at a meeting of the North Beach Surf and Life-Saving Club last night. Messrs H. M. Boyd, R..M’Evedy, D. R. Madden and G. Roberts (Wellington), R. Dawson (Dunedin) nnd G. Arkinstall (Auckland) are staying at Warner’s Hotel. Sir Lindo Ferguson, Archdeacon F. G. Evans, Bishop Wade (Solomon Islands), Dr Lynch and Mr L. Dwan were passengers from the north this morning. Messrs L. W. T. Lewan, L. F. O’Brien and W. H. Grove (Wellington), C. I. Lee (Dunedin), J. C. Urquhart (Auckland), and Noel Simmonds (Hobart) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr F. C. Stephenson (Wellington) is staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Dr 11. T. J. Thacker, who has been in Lewisham Hospital for several days, was reported yesterday to be progressing satisfactorily towards recovery. Mr John Beynon, manager of Barclay’s Bank, Pretoria, South Africa, who arrived in Christchurch from the West Coast on Tuesday, left last evening on his return to Wellington. He will join the Ulimaroa to Sydney and travel home by way of Java. The Philosophical Institute of Canterbury in its annual report refers to the death of Mr A. M. Wright, who had held the office of treasurer since 1925. The Institute acknowledges its debt and the debt of the community to him, extending its sympathy to his relatives. Sir Gilbert Purcell, formerly Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, is visiting the Dominion. The Rev Fathers Kennedy, Riordan. and Daly, were among the passengers on the Maori from Wellington yesterday. Mr Denis A. Lightband, a son of Mr 11. Lightband, of Christchurch, has had conferred on him the degree of Master of Science by the University of Pitts-

burg, his thesis being on “The Short Time Temperature Rise of Railway Motor Armatures.” Mr Lightband was educated at the Christchurch Bovs’ High School, and in 1922 graduated B.E. (Elec.), at Canterbury College, and was awarded the travelling scholarship for New Zealand- for that year. He completed his workshop practice in several departments of the Christchurch Municipal Electricity Department, and fulfilled the scholarship conditions by taking the students’ engineering lecture course with the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh. Later he was appointed to a position on the company's design staff, on which he was engaged for about five years. Mr R. V. Ellerbeck, late wool buyer for Messrs William Ilaughton and Co., and Mr Lewis Walker, will shortly leave New Zealand for Durban, Natal, South Africa. Mr J. W. Reay, Assistant District Traffic Manager, Wellington, lias retired after forty-six years in the New Zealand Railways. Joining the service at Wellington as a cadet in 1884, Mr Reay was subsequently stationed at Invercargill, Eketahuna, Gisborne, Wanganui, Auckland, Upper Hutt, and Fordell. He was appointed to the position of chief clerk, district traffic managers’s office, Greymouth, in June, 1924, and to a similar position in Invercargill in April, 1927. Mr Reay was made assistant district traffic manager, Wellington, in March, 1928, which position he filled until the completion of his period of service on November 22. Prior to his departure Mr Reay was met by members of the office staff and presented with some handsome tokens of the esteem in which he was held by liis colleagues.