PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 8

PERSONAL.

Mr J. S. Jessep arrived from Wellington this morning. Mr W. W. Duff (Wellington) is staying at the Hotel Federal. Mr C. A. Wilkinson, M.P.. arrived from Wellington this morning. Mr 11. F. Toogood arrived from the north this morning. Mr M. J. Scott. M.Sc., of the staff of Canterbury Agricultural College, left for the north last evening. Messrs E. L. Rutledge and G. F. Hazelwood (Wellington) are staying at Warner’s Hotel. Mr A. V. Smith, of the firm of Blackburne, Smith and Co., who has been on a business visit to England, returned yesterday by the Remuera. Mr G. D. Healy, superintendent for Australia and New Zealand of the Bank of Australasia, is visiting the Dominion. Messrs T. M. Wilkie, M. Canning, H. E. Nathan, W. M’Grath and H. E. Evans (Wellington) and j. Mackay (Melbourne) are guests at the United Service Hotel. Mr A. M. Fairburn, private secretary to the Hon J. W. Fordham-Johnson, Lieutenant-Governor of British Colombia, is on a holiday visit to the Dominion. Messrs W. G. W. Barnard (London), G. D. Rutter, G. I. Allard (Auckland), B. E. Simpson (Wellington), R. Stark, H. Webb (Oamaru), R. O. Jeffrey (Dunedin) and T. B. Howard (Invercargill) are at the New City Hotel. Mr R. M’Gillivray, fields superintendent of the Department of Agriculture, left last evening for Palmerston North to attend a grassland conference of field superintendents of the department. The ex-imperial war service men present at a meeting in the Jellicoe Hall last evening stood for a brief period as a mark of respect to the late Colonel Hugh Stewart, whose death occurred at sea while returning to England from a visit to New Zealand. Mr V. R. Meredith, who is one of the selectors of the North Island Rugby football team, and who has been nominated as manager of the 1935 All Black team’s tour of Great Britain, was a through passenger from Dunedin to Auckland last night. Dr T. # A. Mac Gibbon, who will be accompanied by Mrs Mac Gibbon, will leave Christchurch next week for a tour of five months of Great Britain and the Continent. Dr Mac Gibbon intends to spend some months on the Continent visiting famous clinics and studying the latest developments in his own branch of medical work. Mr James Smith, of 44 Cowlishaw Street, will this month complete his sixtieth year as a chorister. He will celebrate his seventy-fourth birthday on October 22. Thirty years ago he joined the choir of the Avonside Church, but before that he sang in various choirs in England lie does not vet contemplate retiring. Captain Donald P. Simson, general secretary of the Empire Service League, arrived by the Aorangi at Auckland yesterday on his way to attend a conference of the league in Melbourne with Sir lan Fraser. M.P., head of the British delegation, who was a passenger by the same vessel. Captain Simson is a New Zealander by birth, and served with the New Zealand forces in the South African War and the Great War.