PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 62, 14 March 1931, Page 2

PERSONAL.

Mr D. Jones, M.P., arrived from the north this morning.

Mr R. A. Horne is at present visiting the West Coast. Mr P. Joseph M’Lean, of Greymouth, who has been visiting Wellington, left for the West Coast this morning. Mr A. L. Gray is expected to arrive from Napier by the ferry steamer on Sunday morning. The Rev Father P. Cooney, of Lyttelton, who has been spending a holiday in Wellington, returned by the Wahine this morning. Constable George Molloy, who has been stationed in the watch-house at the Central Police Station, has been transferred to Auckland. Messrs P. A. Lyttle (Sydney), F. Goosney and D. F. Gilruth (London) and M. J. Page (Johore, Malaya) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr J. W. Townsend, Inspector of Machinery and Surveyor of Ships at Wanganui, has been promoted by the Marine Department to Lyttelton as the senior officer.

The following members of the Legislative Council arrived from the north this morning: The Hons D. T. Fleming, L. M. Isitt, W. Stevenson, J. Macgregor, D. Buddo, G. Witty, G. J. Smith and Sir R. Heaton Rhodes. Mr J. Perry, of Gisborne, arrived in Christchurch yesterday. He is relieving Mr G. T. Thurston, secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, during that gentleman’s absence in Auckland. The Mayor (the Rev J. K. Archer), Councillor E. H. Andrews (chairman of the Finance Committee of the City Council), and the Town Clerk (Mr J. S. Neville) were the guests of Commander Ilotham at lunch on H.M.S. Laburnum at Lyttelton yesterday. It was decided at the meeting of the Heathcote County Council last evening to write to Mr R. T. Bailey, officer in charge of the Government Labour Department, thanking him for his cooperation with the council in the difficult work of the past few months. The Rev W. Lamb, of Sydney, who has been lecturing to crowded audiences in the United States, Canada and Australia, will arrive in Christchurch this evening, and will commence his Christchurch lectures in the Civic Theatre to-morrow. Mr Lamb is an old member of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church, and entered the ministry some thirty years ago, becoming pastor of the Baptist Churches at Rangiora and Ashburton. From Ashburton he left for Australia.

Mr C. E. Davis, a director of the Grey Valley Collieries. Ltd., Dobson, who, with the other directors has been, visiting the mine, has returned to Christchurch.