PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 14

PERSONAL.

The Hon J. Craigie arrived from the north this morning. Sir Alexander Roberts was an arrival from the north this morning. Mr E. Gould (Sydney) is a guest at the United Service Hotel. Messrs F. Hayes and G. A. M’Kendrick (Auckland) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. Messrs S. Hunt (Timaru) and S. Renolds (Wellington) are staying at the Royal Hotel. The Mayor (Mr D. G. Sullivan. M.P.) arrived in Christchurch this momin; from Wellington. Mr P. A. de la Perrelle, M.P.. arrived by steamer from the North Island this morning. Captain A. W. Pearse, of the Port of London Authority, will arrive in Christchurch to-morrow evening from Dunedin. Messrs R. Kirby (Auckland), A. Delmonte and G. Marsden (Wellington), H. B. Ireland and J G. Imlay (Invercargill) and M. Kilian (Oaio) are guests at the New City Hotel. Mr J. L. G. Law. managing director of PeJaco. Ltd., Melbourne, is at present visiting Christchurch. He is accompanied by his daughter, Miss Pauline Law. Mr T. H. Easdown. manager of the Auckland branch of the National Bank of New Zealand, who has been on a visit to England, is returning, via Auv tralia, by the Orama, which arrived at Fermantle from London on April 3. Mr R. Semple, M.P., who has been attending the annual conference of the Labour Party in Christchurch, left by the Wahine last evening for Wellington. He was accompanied by Mrs Semple. Mr G. A. Pascoe, until recently works manager of Anderson’s, Ltd., was met recently by employees of the firm and presented with an engraved gold watch and chain. The presentation was made by Mr R. Sinclair, works foreman. Bishop C. J. Nicholas. Roman Cath. olic Vicar Apostolic of Fiji, who came to New Zealand in February to attend the episcopal diamond jubilee of Archbishop Redwood, left Auckland by the Niagara on his return to Fiji. Mr A. H. Hobbs, president of the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association, returned from Wellington this morning, after having attended the Dominion Conference of the Justices’ Federation in Auckland. Mr M. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, left this morning for the West Coast, where he will deliver a series of addresses in conjunction with Mr P. C. Webb, M.P. At the conclusion of his West Coast tour Mr Savage w’ill return to Christchurch. The Rev E. R. Harries, who has been minister of St James’s Presbyterian Church, Auckland, for the past ten years, and has resigned with the object of doing evangelistic work abroad, left for Vancouver by the Niagara. He was accompanied by Mrs Harries. The Rev E. B. Chambers, minister of the Edgeware Road Wesleyan Church for the past four years, will shortly leave Christchurch for Invercargill, where he will be superintendent of the Methodist Church there. Mr Chambers will be missed by the children, for he is well known as Uncle Jim at 3YA. The boys of St Andrew’s College yesterday afternoon said good-bye to Mr G. Morton Smith, who has been transferred to Auckland as general manager for New Zealand of John Burns and Company, Limited. Mr Smith, who was a member of the College Board of Governors for several years, met the boys after lunch, and they sang their college songs to him in farewell. Councillor J. W. Beanland, whe leaves this month on a trip to England and the Continent of Europe, will preside over the Works Committee of the Christchurch City' Council for the last time before his departure at the meeting of the committee on Wednesday. He has invited the members of the committee and the Town Clerk (Mr J. S. Neville) to join him at afternoon tea at the close of the meeting. Senior-Sergeant John Powell, who has been promoted to Sub-Inspector and transferred from Whangarei to Christchurch, joined the police force in 1904 and has been stationed in various part* of the North Island, including Wanganui, Napier, Auckland and Whangarei. He was a district clerk at Napier at one time, and then senior-sergeant at Napier, whence he went to Auckland Central and Whangarei. Mr George M’lntyre, of Cuff’s Road. Sandilands, one of New pioneer surveyors, will celebrate hi* ninetieth birthday on Monday and will then have spent sixty-eight years working at his profession in the Dominion. A well-known figure in the city', Mr M’lntyre has had an unbroken association with Mr George Slater as surveyors in the province, the firm all the time occupying the same premises in Hereford Street. Inspector A. S. Bird, officer in charge of the Timaru police district, has been advised of his promotion to superintendent. to take effect as from April I. Superintendent Bird will not be iequired to leave the district. Joining the police force in Auckland in 1896. he went to Timaru two years later as a constable. Later he went to Culverden, iemaining there till 1911 when he went as a sergeant to Auckland. Eighteen months later he returned to Timaru in a similar position. His next move was to Petone as senior-sergent, and in 1923 he went to Auckland as sub-inspector. From Auckland he went to Invercargill as inspector, where he stayed for four years. On the present occasion he has been four years in Timaru.