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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 936, 5 December 1933, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr F. Buchanan (Auckland) is a guest at the Royal Hotel. Mr S. Masdubost (Wellington) is a guest at Warner’s Hotel. Dr 11. Money arrived from Wellington this morning. Messrs J. R. Smith and G. L. Berry arrived from the north this morning. Messrs D. C. Ilalley, W. A. Martin, E. L. Salmond, W. E. Leicester and D. F. Moncur (Wellington) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Messrs L. H. Stuart (Carterton), G. Henderson (Marton) and G. W. Clinkard (Wellington) are guests at the Clarendon Hotel. A vote of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr Samuel Manning was passed by the Canterbury Pit grims’ Association at its annual meeting last evening. Dr W. S. Fogg, of the physiology department, Otago Medical School, University of Otago, has received advice that for the work done on his thesis he has been awarded the degree of M.D. Mr George Buckley, conductor of the Auckland Municipal Artillery Band, has been appointed adjudicator at the New Zealand band championship contests to be held in Wellington in February next. Mr C. P. Agar is making a good recovery from his recent operation and will leave St George’s Hospital to-day. It will probably be six weeks or more before Mr Agar will resume business activities. Guests at the New City Hotel include Messrs H. Goodwin, 11. Patience, 11. S. Levy and R. L. Maclachlan (Wellington), J. W. Bowie (Dunedin), A. M. Jones and J. W. Bowden (Ashburton). Colonel N. W. B. B. Thoms, D. 5.0., late of the New Zealand Staff Corps, has completed his engagement as Commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, and leaves Shanghai on December 17 to live in Kent. Earl Jellicoe, who commanded the Grand Fleet in the North Sea at the outbreak of the Great War, and afterwards became Governor-General of New Zealand, is seventy-four years old to-day, having been born on December 5, 1859. Ihe Rev A. G. Kayll, 8.A., son of Canon J. L. A. Kayll, has been appointed to a chaplaincy in the Royal Air Force, and will leave London early next year for the Air Force station at Bagdad. Mr Kayll, who was educated a the Auckland Grammar School and trained for the ministry at St John’s College, graduated at Cambridge University. On the motion of Mr J. Woodbury, it was decided at the meeting of the Somerfield Burgesses’ Association iast night to receive with regret the resignation of Mr II Williams as vicepresident, and to send him a letter of thanks for his services. Mr G. Henderson was elected to fill the vacancy caused by Mr Williams’s resignation. The leader of the Legislative Council, Sir James Parr, made his farewell appearance in the Chamber at its meeting this afternoon, prior to his early departure for London to take up his appointment there as High Commissioner for New Zealand. At to-day's sitting he was accorded an official farewell by his fellow-members of the Council.