PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20483, 8 December 1934, Page 13

PERSONAL.

MINISTERIAL. The Hon J. A. Young, Minister of Health, arrived from the north this morning and left later for Hanmer Springs. The Hon John Bitchener, Minister of Public Works, arrived from the north this morning and left by the express for the south. The Hon Adam Hamilton. Postmas-ter-General. went south on the express to-day. Mr H. T. Iloadlev (Hastings) is staying at Warner’s Hotel. Dr T. Fletcher Telford arrived from the north this morning. Sir Alexander Roberts and Sir W. Perry arrived from the north this morning Guests at the Hotel Royal include Mr A. Bridge (Dunedin) and Mr J. Field (Wellington). Mr G. E. Kay has been appointed registrar of births and deaths at Mayfield. Mr A. If. Cavell, barrister and solicitor, has been created a notary public. He was sworn in yesterday by Mr Justice Johnston at the Supreme Court. The following Members of Parliament arrived from Wellington this morning:—Messrs P. Fraser, D. G. Sullivan, W. A. Bodkin and 11. G. R. Mason. Guests at the New City Hotel include Messrs 11. T. Randall and J. E. Perkin (Auckland), A. R. Guddopp (New Plymouth), 11. Glendining (Palmerston North) and A. E. Smith (Skippers). Mr 11. P. Wise, M.A., M.Sc., instructor in mathematics and science at the Christchurch Technical College, has been granted leave of absence for the first two terms of 1935 to enable him to visit England. A Domain Board has been established at Hanmer Springs, and the original members are Messrs 11. S. G. Glass, C. A. Lahmert, G. Lucas, D. A. Manson, J. Manson, P. M’Manaway and G. O. Rutherford. Messrs P. J. O’Regan (Wellington), J. Robertson (Geelong, Victoria), S. T. Quilliam (Manchester), G. E. Prahl (Oslo, Norway) and Professor G. S. Peren (Massey College, Palmerston North) are registered at, the United Service Hotel.

Dr E. Marsden. Director-General of Agriculture, who has been in Christchurch attending the quarterly meeting of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, will leave to-mor-row for the south. He will attend the Royal Show at Invercargill next week. The Christchurch Domains Board yesterday afternoon appointed the chairman (Mr 11. Kitson) and the curator (Mr J. A. M’Pherson) to attend the conference of chairmen of reserves committees and park superintendents and curators, to be held in Dunedin next month.

Sub-Inspector D. A. M’Lean was welcomed to Christchurch Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Mr M’Lean, who was stationed previously at Dunedin, fills the vacancy caused by the promotion to the inspectorship at Wanganui of Sub-Inspector John Powell. Congratulations to the Hon S. G. Smith on his appointment as Minister of Education were extended by the Board of Governors of the Christchurch Technical College last night. The chairman (Mr T. W. West) and an exchairman (Mr B. M’Gregor Wright) referred to the great assistance given by Mr Smith during his previous term as Minister of Education. The new Minister will speak at the college presentation of prizes this month. The board also decided to thank the Hon R. Masters for his work as Minister.

At a meeting of the council of the Canterbury branch of the Music Teachers’ Association of New Zealand, reference was made by Dr J. C. Bradshaw to the illness of Mr Sidney Williamson, the secretary of the branch. In moving “That the sincere and heartfelt sympathy of the council be tendered to Mr Williamson in his illness, with our earnest hope that •he may be speedily restored to health,” Dr Bradshaw spoke of Mr Williamson’s great services to the association and to the profession generally. The motion was seconded by Madame Gower Burns and was agreed to unanimously.

News has been received of the death in Johannesburg, South Africa, of Mr Bert Avery, a successful Rand architect and honorary representative for New Zealand in the great mining centre. Mr Avery in 1899 was one of several Ohinemuri men (including Mr G. R. Bradford, the first New Zealander killed in South Africa) who joined the Ist New Zealand Mounted R.'fles for service in the Boer War. Mr Avery, who was a builder in Paeroa, served as a non-commissioned officer during the duration of the South African War, and subsequently settled in Johannesburg, where he lived for almost thirty years. He became one of the best-known architects, and many of the modern buildings there remain as evidences of his skill. He visited New Zealand some years ago, together with a son, and was then given the post of New Zealand representative in Johannesburg.