PERSONAL

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 940, 9 December 1933, Page 15

PERSONAL

Professor H. G. Denham returned from Wellington this morning.

Flight-Lieutenant Denton arrived from the north this morning. Mr L. M’Kinnon (Oamaru) is a guest at the Royal Hotel. Mr W. T. Kellahap is staying at the Royal Hotel. Messrs R. G. Varlow and John Bowen (Sydney) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel.

Messrs R. Scott Russell and Neville Johnson, of Dunedin, are staying in Christchurch. They will leave on Monday for Nelson. Mr A. S. Burgess (Wanganui) -president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, is visiting Christchurch, and is staying at the United Service Hotel. Mr B. Parkinson, governing director of B. Parkinson and Co., Ltd., wool merchants and topmakers, of Bradford, England, will arrive in Christchurch tonight and will stay at Warner’s Hotel. Guests at Warner’s Hotel include Messrs E. J. P. Denny, F. S. Avent, 11. F. AV. Brown (Dunedin), J. W. Swift (England), M. L. Davidson, T. Kawamura and W. J. Coss (Sydney). The appointment of Dr R. S. Stewart, of Christchurch, as house surgeon at the Gore Hospital, was confirmed by the Southland Hospital Board at its monthly meeting held on Thursday. Messrs R. M. Tartakover, M. Darling, G. J. Bertinshaw, M. A. Tooney, R. J. Fielding (Wellington), L. C. Miles (Auckland) and J. B. Hislop (Dunedin) are among the guests at the New City Hotel. Mr S. Hollander, the international Rugby referee, who has been residing in Auckland for the past five months, has been transferred back to Christchurch and will leave Auckland • on Sunday. Mr C. C. Hall, who has been assistant accountant at the Christchurch branch of the Bank of New South Wales for the last two years, will leave early next week to take up a position as manager of the bank’s branch at Edendale, Southland. Messrs R. Carr, C. G. Prevost, 11. A. Champion, J. S. Duke, A. E. Ramsden and C. Hughes (Wellington), P. Farvacque, R. Mortelie (France), D. Walker (London) and J. Ashton (Auckland) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Messrs 11. L. Bowker, a member of the committee of the Canterbury Pilgrims’ and Early Settlers’ Association, and G. W. Hungerford, the secretary of the association, visited Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson on Thursday and found him improved in health though still confined to his bed. Mr W. P. Spencer will take his seat at the next meeting of the Canterbury College Board of Governors, representing the school committees. Nomina tions for the vacancy on the board caused by the death of Mr W. M. Hamilton closed at noon to-day, the only nomination being that of Mr Spencer, who was declared elected. Mr Bernard Bradley, of Christchurch, an old boy of St Bede’s College, will go to the Antarctic with Admiral Byrd’s expedition. At the St Bede’s College prize distribution last evening the Rector (Father A. L. Burger, S.M.) announced that Mr Bradley had called to say good-bye as he would be going south on Admiral Byrd’s ship, being one of the seven New Zealanders selected- from a large number of applicants.