PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 470, 3 June 1932, Page 3

PERSONAL.

MINISTERIAL. The Rt Hon G. W. Forbes presided at another conference yesterday morning of the New Zealand delegates to the Ottawa Conference. He attended a short meeting of Cabinet last evening, and with other members of the Ministry he was later the guest of ViceAdmiral A. Imamura at an official dinner on board the Japanese training ship Asama. The Hon FT A. Ransom left Wellington for his home at Dannevirke this morning and will return after the weekend.

The Hon A. Hamilton returns to Wellington to-day, after a week’s tour of the East Coast district of the North Island. The Hon J. A. Young returns to Wellington this evening from New Plymouth. Mr Justice Adams will leave on Monday for the West Coast. Messrs F. J. Rolleston (Timaru) and A. J. Dickinson (Wellington) are guests at the Clarendon Hotel. Messrs G. Martin (Napier), J. G. Neil and J. Black (Dunedin) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. Mr D. Jones, chairman of the Meat Board, arrived from the north this morning. Messrs O. G. Kimber, D. M. Blackwelder (Wellington) and J. Marsden Caughey (Auckland) are staying at the United Service Hotel, Passengers from the north by the ferry steamer this morning included Messrs J. M’Combs, M.P., W. 11. Price and R. F. Smith. Bishop Liston, of Auckland, arrived from the north this morning on a visit to the city. He will be a guest at the Presbytery, Barbadoes Street, until his return to the north next week. The Rev J. E. Simpson, who has been appointed to the Sydenham Baptist Church, was welcomed by the Rev B. M. Wilson at the Baptist Church conference tc-day. Messrs J. R. Cuningham (chairman), Colin M’lntosh and R. Sinclair, members of the Canterbury-Westland Adjustment Commission, accompanied by the secretary, Mr Gordon Howes, leave on Monday to hold a sitting in Timaru. Messrs A. C. Cooper (Auckland), W. Boulton and G. Skeen (Wellington), G. Pettigrew (Nelson), C. Stewart and J. Duncan (Dunedin), and L. D. Stanbury, J- C. Tikao and D. Hooker (Wainui) are guests at the New City Hotel. At the meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League last night, a motion was passed congratulating Sir Walter and Lady Stringer, who have been members of the branch for many years, on the occasion of their golden wedding. An announcement of his intention to retire from the Board of Governors of the New Zealand Institute was made by Dr Leonard Cockayne, C.M.G., F.R.S., F.N.Z.lnst., at the annual meeting of the board: