PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20311, 22 May 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL.

MINISTERIAL. The Right Hon J. G. Coates, Minister of Finance, will make a tour of the south of the South Island at the end of this week. lie will arrive at Timaru to-night and will travel to Queenstown on Wednesday. He will spend Thursday night and Friday morning in Dunedin. Mr W. G. Russell (Auckland) is a guest at the Clarendon Hotel. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes left for Wellington by the Wahine last evening. Messrs K. De Renzy (.Wellington) i and C. Welsh (Fairlie) are guests at the Royal Hotel. I Guests at Warner’s Hotel include I Messrs T. E. James, R. J. Murphy, T. I O. Bishop, J. Cable, Barrie Marschel I and E. A. Allaway (Wellington). Mr R. W. Marshall, Wellington, district manager of the Government Tourist Bureau, and Mrs Marshall have left for Picton, the West Coast and Dunedin. Messrs 11. W. Mayo, C. E. R. Webber (Auckland), R. Everiss (New Plymouth), A. 11. Wilson and E. Tait (Wellington) are staying at the New City Hotel. The Rev Arthur Selwyn Bean, M.A. (Oxon.), B.D. (Manchester), only son of Mr and Mrs Charles Bean of this city, at present Vicar of Astley, Manchester, has been appointed a Canon i Residentiary of Manchester Cathedral. ; Messrs F'rank Ray and Robert Ed- ; monds (Melbourne), D. H. Hawkins j (Poverty Bay), K. M. Morpeth (Wel- ! lington) and R. Honeyfield (Palmerston North) are staying at the United Service Hotel. Mr Barrie Y. Marschel, managing director of British Dominion Films (N.Z.), Ltd., arrived in Christchurch today to make arrangements for the reopening of the Civic Theatre as a talking picture house on Monday with Noel Coward’s “ Bitter Sweet.” Mr R. Wild, Hokitika, a member of the Canterbury Education Board, is at present a patient in the Christchurch Hospital. Mr Wild, while in the Kaikoura district on a visit of inspection to the schools, fell from a horse and fractured two ribs. lie was progressing favourbaly from this injur}', but an old trouble caused a relapse. The Christchurch Tramway Board, at a meeting yesterday, carried a resolution of sympathy with the widow and daughters of the late Mr G. A. Alexander, who died at Sumner on Sunday. Mr Alexander had occupied various clerical positions on the staff of the board, his duties including the preparation of the electoral rolls, a work in which he took especial interest. A decision to place on record appreciation of the services rendered to the city by the late Sir Henry Wigram, and to extend to Lady Wigram sincere sympathy in her bereavement, was reached at last evening’s meeting of the Christchurch City Council. The Mayor (Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P.) referred briefly to Sir Henry’s work as Mayor of the city at an important juncture in its history, and to his benefactions ; and Councillor Thacker, in adding his tribute to Sir Henry, suggested that some memorial worthy of such a wonderful man should be erected.