PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 938, 7 December 1933, Page 11

PERSONAL.

The Hon G. W. Russell is spending a few days in Christchurch. Mr J. Fisher (Redcliffs) is a guest at the Royal Hotel. Mr W. O. Welch (Wellington) is staying at Warner’s Hotel. Mr C. Kerrinson (Wellington) is staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr E. J. Watt arrived from Wellington this morning. Mr E. S. Brittenden, district railways traffic manager, left for the West Coast this morning on a business visit. Mr T. D. Burnett, member for Temuka. who was taken seriously ill some weeks ago. was granted leave till the end of the session by the House of Representatives yesterday. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr W. M. Hamilton was passed at the annual meeting cf the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury last evening. A motion of condolence with the relatives of the late Mrs J. Bell was passed at a meeting of the general com* mittee of th? St John Free Ambulance Association last evening. At the annual meeting of the Auckland division of the British Medical Association Mr W. A. Fairclough was elected president. The retiring president is Mr Kenneth Mackenzie. The Mayor of New Brighton (Mr E. A. M. Leaver) left by the ferry stamer last evening to attend a meeting cf the executive of the Municipal Association. Mr John Bishop, conductor of tne Royal Wellington Choral Union for the past six years, has resigned his position and will shortly leave New Zealand for Australia (states a Press Association message). Mr C. J. Treleaven was appointed a life member of the St John Free Ambulance Association last evening in recognition of his services to the association. while he held office as secre* tary.

Mr C. P. Agar has resigned his position as chairman of the No. 8 Transport Licensing Authority, which has jurisdiction over the Canterbury district. The appointment of a successor will be made by the Minister of Transport.

The Rev 11. F. Ault, who, with his wife, recently returned from India, where he has engaged in missionary work, is now in the Lawrence Street Hospital, Wellington. The date of his arrival in Christchurch is yet uncertain.

Mr H. R. Young, who was recently engaged in diving work at the Arapum hydro-electric station, joined the Byrd expedition at Wellington yesterday. Mr Young was with Rear-Admiral Byrd on his last expedition in the City of New York. He is a Royal Navy diver of sixteen years’ standing.

Mr Fred Gawith, of Mountain Road. Eltham, has been honoured with an invitation to attend the first session of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological sciences, to be held in London, under Royal patronage, from July 30 to August 4, 1934. The invitation comes from the president of the congress, the Earl of Onslow. The congress will be the first of its kind to be held. Mr A. C. Towsey, manager of tin Regent Picture Theatre at Whangarei. has received notice of transfer, oil promotion, to Wellington. Mr Gaston Mervale, who will succeed Mr Towsey. is a well-known producer and actor, and has visited New Zealand several times under the management of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., with some of that firm’s foremost productions. The following promotions, involving transfer of officers in the Government Life Insurance Department, have been announced by the Public Service Commissioner: Mr T. Casserky, Wellington, to district manager, Palmerston North; Mr S. W. R. Tovev, Invercargill, to district manager, Whangarei; and Mr C. C. N. Johnston. Christchurch, to chief clerk, Invercargill.

Mr I. M. Levy, editor of the “ New Zealand Worker ”, has received advice of the death of his father, Mr Herman H. Levy, in Melbourne, after a brief illness, at the age of ninety years. The late Mr Levy was for many years a member of the firm of Hocking and Co., Wine and spirit merchants, Sydney. During the past thirty years he has been living in retirement in Melbourne.

After forty-seven years at sea Captain William Surman Mason, D.S.O. master of the Commonwealth and Do* minion Line motor-ship Port Dunedin, is to retire on arrival in England early next year. Captain Mason, who is one of the best-known and most-respected masters trading to New Zealand, was given a farewell luncheon by the Wellington office of the companv yesterday. Mr Warwick Gregory, New Zealand manager of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, in proposing Captain Mason’s health, eulogised his services over the long period he had been with the company. The luncheon was largely attended by representatives of shipping companies and mercantile houses.