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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20233, 17 February 1934, Page 9

PERSONAL.

Colonel Hope Murray arrived fnom the north this morning. Mr H. T. I-lowatt (Sydney) is staying at the United Service Hotel. Mr D. Jones arrived by the ferry steamer this morning. Mr F. Z. D. Ferriman has been gazetted a member of the MidCanterbury Licensing Committee. Sir Donald M’Gavin has been appointed a member of the Medical Council. Sir Cecil Leys, who has been attending the Press Association Conference at Hanmer Springs, arrived in Christchurch yesterday and is staying at the United Service Hotel. The Rev K. D. Andrews-Baxter, of Perth, Western Australia, is a guest at the United Service Hotel. Mr IT. IT. Sterling, chairman of the Railways Board, left for Wellington last evening. Messrs IT. S. S. Kyle, M.P., J. O’Brien, M.P., and R. W. Hawke, M.P., arrived from Wellington this morning. Messrs G. B. Parker (Wellington) J. Murdoch (Invercargill), J. N. Romans and S. Mathieson (Dunedin) are guests at the New City Hotel. Messrs R. J. Murph\r (Wellington), O. Kawamura (Sydney), and IT' W. Crawford (Whangarei) are staying at Warner’s Hotel. Baron E. De Chantal, an Italian nobleman, accompanied by Colonel D. Fernoni, arrived at Auckland by the Marama on Wednesday. The Hon Alexander Shaw, Lady Margaret Shaw and Miss Jean Shaw left Christchurch for Dunedin this morning. The Hon R. W. D. Weaver, Secretary of Public Works and Minister of Health in the New South Wales Government, left Wellington for Sydney by the Wanganella yesterday. Mr W. R. Lysaght and his brother, Mr H. R. Lysaght, of England, who visited New Zealand at the invitation of the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, who is their neighbour in Gloucestershire, left for Sydney yesterday by the Wanganella. Mr S. W. M. Stilling, New Zealand representative of the Australian National Travel Association, will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow morning and leave for Dunedin in the evening. He will return to Christchurch on Thursday next. The annual conference of the Gas Institute of New Zealand, Incorporated, will be held at Invercargill next week, when the delegates from Christchurch will include Messrs J. J. Hurley (president-elect), IT. C. Ridley and W. O. R. Gilling. Mr William Goodfellow, of Auckland accompanied by Miss Marion Good fellow, Mr Hector Goodfellow, and Messrs G. and E. Chamberlain, ar rived back in Christchurch yesterday from a motor tour in the south and is staying at the United Service Hotel. Mr F. M. Ilanan, LL.B.,- has been appointed out of twenty-two applicants to the position of lecturer on torts at Otago University, in place of Mr J. B. Callan, who has retired from the position to commence practice as a barrister in Wellington. Mr Ilanan, who is a son of the Hon J. A. Hanan, M.L.C., received his secondary school education at Wellington College, where he was head prefect in 1923 and 1924. ‘ He was also for three years a member of the first fifteen. Mr Hanan graduated at Otago University in 1929.