PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 852, 28 August 1933, Page 7

PERSONAL.

MINISTERIAL. The Hon E. A. Ransom. Minister of Lands, will arrive in Christchurch on Thursday to take part in the Lyttelton by-election campaign in support of the Coalition candidate, Mr F. W. Freeman. He will deliver addresses in different parts of the electorate on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Mr Justice MacGregor left Christchurch for Wellington on Saturday night. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr H. E. Holland. M.P.) is expected to arrive in Christchurch at the end of the week. Messrs D. Vogel (Timaru) and L. Dunning (Dunedin) are guests at Warner's Hotel. The Rev C. E. Boggis arrived from Wellington on Saturday to conduct a three weeks’ mission at the Linwood Baptist Church. Messrs A. Hannah, D. Collie, T. C. Welsh, T. Kelly, F. Ramsay (Wellington) and F. Baker (Auckland) are staying at the New City Hotel. Mr Sidney Williamson has returned from the West Coast, where he has been judging the instrumental and vocal sections at the Greymouth competitions. A vote of congratulation to Mr W. P. Spencer on his election to the chairmanship of the Canterbury Education Board and the Spencer Park Committee was passed by the Selwyn Plantations Board to-day. Bishop West-Watson and Mr H. D. Andrews, and Bishop Richards, of Dunedin, who attended the meeting of the Standing Committee of General Synod at Wellington, returned to Christchurch on Saturday. Mr John Bates, of Clyde Road, Fendalton, who is at present a patient in “ The Limes ” Private Hospital, where he recently underwent an operation for eye trouble, is making satisfactory progress. A call to the Rev J. A. F. Watson, of Normanby, Taranaki, from the congregation of John Knox Church, Rangiora, was sustained by the Christchurch Presbytery at a special meeting this morning. Mr Watson will be inducted by the Moderator, the Rev L. M’Master, on September 28.

Commissioner T. Cunningham and Brigadier A. Scotnev, of the Salvation Army, arrived from Wellington on Saturday, and left later for Greymouth to conduct young people’s meetings there. They were accompanied by Major A. Souter. of the divisional headquarters, Christchurch. Dr Aubrey Humphries, son of Mr Herbert Humphries, of Napier, has been appointed president of the Australian and New Zealand Club of San Francisco. Dr Humphries has attained the degrees of doctor of dental surgery and of dental medicine. He was for some years professor of prosthetic dentistry at the North Pacific Dental College. Mr W. 11. Dixon, the musical director of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society and of the Ashburton Choral Society, has been appointed vocal and instrumental judge at the competitions to be held at Bendigo, Victoria, in May next. With the possible exception of Ballarat, these competitions lor many years have been the largest in Australia, extending over a period of three and a half weeks. There is apparently a great revival of interest m the competition movement in Australia.