PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 7

PERSONAL.

Bishop Brodie is on a visit to the West Coast.

Messrs C. B. Trimnell and A. J. Coleman (Wellington) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr D. A. Adams was a passenger for Wellington by the inter-island steamer last evening. Mr Robert Forbes, son of the Prime Minister, left for Wellington last evening. The Hon G. J. Smith left by the Rangatira for Wellington last evening. Mr J. IT. Jerram, general manager of the State Fire Insurance Office, left Wellington by the Maunganui yesterday on a visit abroad. Messrs H. P. Stuart (Palmerston North), M. England (Wellington) and R. Bradley (Auckland), are guests at the Clarendon Hotel. Messrs J. A. Pinnington and S. Masdubost (Wellington) and H. Welsh (Auckland) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. Mr S. G. Holland, who has been giving evidence before the Monetary Committee in Wellington, returned this morning. Dr W. M’Kay and Messrs J. Aftley (Auckland), N. J. Hobson and D. Bradley (Wellington), and A. G. Darbev (Hokitika) are guests at the New City Hotel. Mr M. J. Savage, Leader of the Opposition, who has been touring the South Island, returned to Christchurch from the West Coast yesterday afternoon and left in the evening for Wellington. Mr Oliver Nicholson. P.G.M., and Grand Lodge officers, yesterday afternoon laid the foundation stone of the Masonic temple which is being erected by Lodge Whangarei, states a Press Association message. Mr C. S. Thompson, who has been with Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., electrical engineers, for thirty years, the last sixteen as manager, and Mr Meredith Doreen, who also has been with the firm for the same period, and who for the last sixteen }*ears has been works manager, have resigned from the firm to go intQ business on their own account. The Mayor (Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P.) will leave for Wellington to-night, to attend the final meeting of the Film Committee. The committee has already reached general decision on the various points in its order of reference and the meeting is to be held to draft the final recommendations. Mr IT. Holland, M.P., is the other Christchurch member of the committee. Mr H. S. Manning has been appointed manager of the Union Steam Ship Company’s branch in Rarotonga and will leave to take up his new appointment in May. Mr Manning joined the service of the Union Company in Sydney some thirty years ago as a boy, and was later transferred to Dunedin. After a short time there he was transferred to Wellington, and after seeing service at the war for five years he rejoined the Christchurch branch of the company and has been stationed here ever since. Extended leave of absence has been granted to the Public Service Commissioner (Mr P. Verschaffelt). The Prime Minister (Mr Forbes), in making this announcement last night, said that Mr Verschaffelt had made an application for leave, acting on medical advice. During Mr Verschaffelt’s absence Mr A. D. Thomson, who previously acted as deputy, will carry out his duties. Regret at the departure of SubInspector G. B. Edwards from Christchurch to take up a new post in Auckland was expressed at a large gathering of members of the police force in the library of the central station yesterday afternoon. On behalf of the men. Superintendent D. J. Cummings presented to Sub-Inspector Edwards a gold wristlet watch, and to Mrs Edwards a silk eiderdown. Inspector A. Cameron, Senior-Sergeant J. Fox, Chief-Detective W. IT. Dunlop, Sergeant L. T. Moore and Constables Warren an<£ Phillips also spoke, paying a tribute to the Sub-Inspector's ability and his comradeship.

Eulogistic references to the services of Mr J. W. Beanland as a member of the Christchurch Drainage Board for the past twenty years were made at a meeting of the board last evening, when Mr Beanland was granted six months’ leave of absence to enable him to visit England. On the motion of the chairman, Mr IT. G. Livingstone, it was decided to place on record the board’s best wishes towards Mr Beanland. In acknowledging tributes paid to him, Mr Beanland said he had been greatly honoured by the kind things people had said about him on the eve of his departure. On the Drainage Board, he had tried, like other members, to do his duty.