PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20298, 7 May 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr A- L. M. Perry left on Saturday for The Hermitage, Mount Cook. The Rev S. J. Cooper has been appointed by the Diocesan Board of Education as a co-opted member, states the ‘‘Church News.” Messrs F. W. IT. Hammond (Melbourne) and W. S. Bennett (Wellington) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Messrs 11. Doh, M. Masuda, T. Kawax (Japan), and T. Kawaruda (Dunedin) are guests at Warner’s Hotel. Mr Ralph Munn, director of the Car negie Library at Pittsburg, accompanied by Mr John Barr, chief librarian of the Auckland Public Library, left on Saturday for Dunedin. The Rev Father A. Burger. SM., rector of St Bede's College, will leave for Wellington this evening to attend a conference of head teachers of private secondary schools. Congratulations to Professor J. Mac millan Brown on the occasion of his eighty-eighth birthday were extended by members of the Canterbury College Graduates’ Association at the annual conversazione on Saturday evening. At a meeting of the Greymouth Fire Board the senior foreman, Mr T. M’lntosh, was appointed caretaker out of twenty-two applicants. Mr M’lntosh has had sixteen years’ service with the Grey mouth Fire Brigade. * Guests at the New City Hotel include Messrs E. R. Uhrbom (Palmerston North), R. Bradley (Wellington), F. N. Shaw (Nelson), C. Trewin fKaikoura), J. R. Bennett (Westport), V. G. Virtue (Oxford) and A. J. Rae (Timaru). The following have been gazetted members of the Rangiora and Waikuku Beach Domain Board: The Mayor of Rangiora and the chairman of Rangiora County Council, ex officio, Messrs J. Mason, E. S. Taylor, E. Stokes, R. Macdonald, C. H. Bascand, J. Little and the Hon D. Buddo, M.L.C. Mr F. Milner, C.M.G., head master of the Waitaki Boys’ High School, will arrive in Christchurch to-day from the south. He will speak from 3YA on ‘‘School-life and Nature” at 7.15 p.m He will proceed to Wellington by the inter-island steamer to attend the Nev Zealand Council of Educational Research. Mr Henry Leslie, of Riccarton, who attended the first service held in St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, was present yesterday morning at the church’s seventy-eighth anniversary service. When the first service was held Mr Leslie, who is now jver eighty years of age, was a small boy. The Diocesan Board of Education has placed on record its appreciation of ‘‘the valuable services rendered to it by the Rev Canon J. de B. Galwey since its inception, most of the time as honorary secretary; and extends t j him its best wishes for his health and happiness in his retirement,” states the “Church News.” The Right Rev W. H. Baddeley (Bishop of Melanesia) will arrive in Christchurch from Greymouth next Tuesday and the same evening .rill ad dress a combined meeting of the North Canterbury parishes at Rangiora, states the “Church News.” The following evening he will address a youth rally in the Choral Hall. Bishop Baddeley will thfen go south but on his return further meetings will be held.