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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19270, 6 January 1931, Page 5

PERSONAL.

VICEREGAL. The Governor-General and Lady Bledisloe arrived in Dunedin yesterday afternoon from Christchurch. They will Remain in the southern city until Monday, when they will leave for Invercargill. Messrs George S. Ellis and Laurie R. Berry, who are on a tour of the North Island, are at present the guests of Mr and Mrs P. Turner, Brunswick, Wanganui. Dr C. Coleridge Farr, Canterbury College, has returned from a holiday spent in the Southern Lakes district. Mr L. R. Freeman, sporting editor of the Melbourne “Argus,” is on a visit to Wellington. Before play commenced on the St Albans Bowling Club’s green on Saturday, all the members assembled, and Mr J. N. Du Feu, on behalf of the club congratulated Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson on the honour conferred on him by the King. Sir Arthur has been a member of the club for many years. Mr J. G. Denniston, of Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, who is spending the long vacation in New Zealand, has arrived in Christchurch from the porth, and will be here for about a fortnight. Mr Denniston was formerly on the staff of Christ’s College. Mr A. E. Hobbs, who recently retired from the staff of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association, at Blenheim, has been appointed Christchurch and North Canterbury representative of the Dominion Fertiliser Company, Ltd., of Dunedin. Ill’s headquarters will be in Christchurch. Dr J. Hardwicke-Smith has returned to Wellington after an extended trip abroad. He did post-graduate work in Berlin, and then made an extensive motor tour through Germany, with his wife and son John (an old boy of Christ’s College), who is at present at Cambridge University, studying for the medical profession. Dr L. H. Cordery, who has been house surgeon at the Christchurch Hospital for the last two years, will leave Lyttelton to-day as ship’s doctor on the Port Wellington. It is his intention to continue his studies ,at Home for two years, after which he will return to the Dominion. Dr Cordery, who obtained his degree at the Otago Medical School two years ago, is a son of Mr L. L. Cordery, of Christchurch.