PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20395, 28 August 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL.

MINISTERIAL. The Prime Minister (the Right Hon George Forbes), who spent the weekend at his home in Cheviot, left, on his return to Wellington last evening. Mr F Hill (Wellington) is a guest at Warner’s Hotel. Messrs Sutherland and Baird (Invercargill) are recent arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel. Messrs P. C. Marie (Wellington) and A. Lewis (Blenheim) are staying at the Royal Hotel. Mr IT. W. Turner has been appointed full-time assistant lecturer in education and philosophy at Canterbury College. Dr C. P. Morkane and Mr C. J. Morkane were passengers by the interisland steamer this morning. A motion of sympathy with Mr G. K. M’Caw in the death of his son was passed last evening by a meeting of ratepayers at Aranui. Messrs J. Milne. R A Carter, J. Coulter. A. F. Turnbull, E H. Clark, F. S. Hill. O. Mills and P S. Ramsay arrived from the north this morning. A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the Rev E Whitehouse was passed at last evening's meeting of the Ashburton Rugby Union. Mr R. Browning will leave Christchurch this evening to attend a meeting of the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association in Wellington. Guests at the New City Hotel include Messrs J. Minehan (Wellington), I. Powell (Dunedin). B. A. Masters (Timaru). A. IT. M’Tntyre (Malvern) and F. Wright (Ashburton). Professor J. Shelley will be asked by the Canterbury College Council to undertake the supervision of the Philosophy Department during the 1935 session. The Rev L. M’Master, who has been minister of St Peter's Presbyterian Church, Woolston. for the past eight years, will leave on Thursday to take up his work in the Onehunga charge. Auckland. * Mr J. IT. E. Schroder has been elected chairman of the High Schools and Hostels Committee of the Canterbury College Council, and Dr G. M. L. Lester has been elected chairman of the Museum and Library Committee. Mr James Bailey, of Riccarton, was yesterday nominated to the office of synodsman for the district of Riccarton. As his was the only nomination received he will be declared elected to the office. A resolution of sympathy with thfe relatives of Mr Peter Dalrymple was passed yesterday by a meeting of the local executive committee of the Superannuated Public Servants’ Association He had been a rrember of the committee for some time. Messrs 11. H. le Pine, N D. Pulver, John C. Wagner, C. Harbottle, Arthur F. Turnbull. C. L. Hughes. FI. A. Champion (Wellington) and Colin M. Mitchellson (Perth, Western Australia) are staying at the United Service Hotel. A Wellington message announces the death of Mr William Frederick Blakis ton. advertising manager for New Zealand and branch manager in Welling ton for the Atlantic Union Oil Company. He was thirty-eight years of The Rev Arthur Selwyn Bean. M.A., B. only son of Mr and Mrs Charles Bean, of this city, who was recently appointed a Canon Residentiary of Manchester Cathedral, has now been appointed Archdeacon of Manchester, and will be installed in both offices on September 20. Mr Clement May, a well-known elocutionist and Dickensian, will leave Wellington shortly for Hollywood, seeking a market for a number of scenarios with a Dickensian background. Mr May had a distinguished stage career before settling in Wellington, including probably the longest Dickens tour by anyone in the world. It lasted seventeen years and took him as far as Kabul in Afghanistan.