PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 945, 15 December 1933, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr C. R. Fox (Auckland) is staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr E. S. Brittenden, District Manager of the New Zealand Railways, will return from Dunedin this evening. Messrs J. A. M’Dougall (Martinborough) and P. Maddock (Wellington) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. Mr Lester Brown, publicity manager for Fox Films, Wellington, is visiting Christchurch.

Messrs W. G. Gallagher and C. H. Clibborn arrived from Wellington this morning.

Messrs J. D. Hall. J. R. M’Kenzie and D. Reese arrived from Wellington by the ferry steamer this morning.

Father M’Carthy and Father M’Donald were arrivals from the north this morning.

Messrs J. H. Seymour (Wanganui) and F. Armstrong (Gore) are guests at the Royal Hotel. Messrs R. S. Canty (Dunedin), R. Crawford (Wellington), D. Ross and J. C. Henderson (Auckland) are guests at the New City Hotel. Dr B. Wyn Irwin (formerly of the Christchurch Hospital staff) has been recommended for a further term as Lady King scholar at Otago University.

Mr Ivan R. Withell, formerly of Mayfield, who was sent by the Defence Department to Woolwich, England, for a special course in mechanical engineering as it is applied to army requirements, will return to New Zealand on December 18.

After long service for surf life-saving Mr W. 11. Benson has retired from the position of president of the Canterbury Surf Life Saving Association. He will be succeeded by Mr D. V. Wilson, formerly the association’s treasurer. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr C. D. Patterson was carried at last evening’s meeting of the Canterbury Surf Life Saving Association. Mr Patterson was for twenty years president of the Australian Surf Life Saving Association.

Reference to the illness of Mr F. D. Ivesteven, the patron, was made at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Surf Life Saving Association last evening. It was decided to send a letter of sympathy to Mr Kesteven expressing the wish that he should make a speedy recovery.

A motion of sympathy with Mr C. H. Burson in his illness was passed by the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association at its meeting last evening. Mr Burson is president of the association. The chairman, Mr F. W. J. Belton, stated that Mr Burson’s condition was improving.