PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20329, 12 June 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr J. C. Youm* (Palmerston North) is a guest at the Clarendon Hotel.

Mr J. O’Brien, M.P. for Westland, arrived from the north by the Rangatira this morning. The Mayor, Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., left for Wellington by the steamer Wahine last evening. Mr Stewart Mair has been elected to fill a casual vacancy on the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce.

Messrs H. H. Le Pine, F. W. Downs, J. von Schilling, J. Marie, H. G. Redding (Wellington) and G. Lovell (Perth) are among the guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr R. G. Forbes and Misses B. and J. Forbes, son and daughters of the Prime Minister, who had been on a holiday visit to Australia, returned to Wellington by the Maunganui. After an absence of thirty-one years from New Zealand, Mr W. E. Jones, formerly of Timaru, returned by the Maunganui from Sydney on a health trip. He -will stay in New Zealand until the end of July. Mr R. J. Annan, of Invercargill, who has been with the Sudan Interior Mission in Ethiopia for the past five and a half years, returned on holiday with his wife and young son by the Maunganui, which arrived at Wellington yesterday.

Mr R. W. Fenton, representing Filmcraft, Ltd., Wellington, and the Government Publicity Department, returned last evening after visiting Dunedin for the public screening of the first New Zealand feature length, entitled “ Romantic New Zealand.” Guests at the New City Hotel include Messrs C. A. Hammond (Sydney). J- A. Astley (Auckland), R. Bradley and W. G. Harrison (Wellington), W. E. Reynolds and J. M’Donald (Dunedin) and R. B. Green (Invercargill).

Flying Officer R. S. Lamb, of Masterton, who is stationed in Irak with one of the Royal Air Force bombing squadrons, and now is on leave, arrived at Wellington yesterday by the Maunganui. He is a member of the squadron which is located at Hinaidi, Irak. He intends to return to Irak in September.

Mr D. Callanaxi, a South Canterbury Rugby representative player, who has been on the staff of the Bank of New Zealand, Geraldine, since 1928, has received notice of his transfer on prom > tion to the Chrigtchurch branch, and will leave for that office on June 15. Mr D. H. Williams, of the Christchurch staff, will replace Mr Callanan at Geraldine.

At the monthly meeting of the Rural Intermediate Credit Board, the chairman (Colonel J. J. Esson) congratulated Mr Norton Francis, a member of the board, on his appointment as a director of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. He expressed the opinion that the wide knowledge and experience Mr Francis had acquired in a long connection with the farming industry would prove of great service to the Dominion in his new position.— Press Association. Mr S. R. Evison has advised the chairmen of the school committees in the Christchurch urban area that he will not seek re-election at the coming Education Board elections. During the four years that he has served on the Canterbury Education Board Mr Evison has been chairman of the Appointments Committee for three years and has represented the board on the Christchurch Technical College Board, the Boys’ Employment Committee and the Canterbury District Standing Committee.

The,new occupant of the post of his Majesty’s Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, Mr Robert Boulter, C.M.G., arrived at Auckland from Sydney by the Monowai yesterday afternoon and left for Wellington in the evening. Mr Boulter, who for the past five years has been Trade Commissioner at Singapore, succeeds Mr L. A. Paish, who retired from the service some months ago on account of ill-health and is now in England. The new commissioner, who is forty-nine years of age, has spent nearly his whole official life in the Far East.