PERSONAL.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20485, 11 December 1934, Page 3

PERSONAL.

Mr A. Bruce Smith (Dunedin) is staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Messrs E. J. Rundle (Greyinouth) and R. W. Simpson (Timaru) are staying at the Hotel Federal.

Mr N. S. Falla, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, arrived from the north this morning.

Mr J. G. L. llewitJ, S.M., president of the Assessment Court, arrived from Wellington this morning. Messrs G. Prebble and M. Morton (Dunedin) are guests at the Royal Hotel.

Messrs R. G. Narlow and S. Stichbury (Wellington) and J. Bowen (Sydney) are guests at the Clarendon Hotel. Captain A. J. Charman, Marine Superintendent of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, arrived from Wellington this morning. Guests at Warner’s Hotel include Messrs R. IT. Rowland, G. Vicker, W. J Gray, O. Welch (Wellington), G. M. Hikinan (Dunedin), D. L. Patterson and W. H. Turvey (Oamaru). The Riccarton town clerk, Mr R. Sarjeant, was appointed the Riccarton Borough Council’s delegate to the New Zealand Power Boards and Supply Association at the meeting of the council last evening. Messrs C. M. Darling, C. W. Hayward and J. Simpson (Wellington), C. L. Lindsay (Havelock), J. T. Pringle (Waimate) and E. N. Chapman (Dunedin) are staying at the New Citv Hotel.

Mr W. T. Ilarman was elected an honorary life member of the Christchurch Golf Club at the dub’s annual meeting last evening Reference was made to his Ihirtv-two years of committee service out of a possible thirtyeight years.

Mr J. R. D. Johns has been appointed to the Lincoln College Board of Governors, as representative of the Northern District Agricultural and Pastoral Associations. Mr John Deans, the previous representative, was the other nominee for the position. Squadron-Leader J. 1.. Findlay, accompanied by Flight-Lieutenants K. Hall and G. Coull, will fly to Wellington on Friday to take part in the we’come to the Duke of G’oucester. The three officers will fly over H.M.A.S. Australia as she enters the haroour. Messrs H. H. Robinson, H. Le Pine, J. Redding, E. Oppenheimer, R. Arlow, R. T. Wells, E. Ilartridge, A. E. Ramsden, C. Prevost, O. Sevier (Wellington), H. H. Doughty (Gore), M. Burrows (Sydney) and E. M’Donald (Fairlie) are staying at the United Service Hotel.

Sit Fabian Ware, permanent vicechairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, accompanied by Lady Ware, will arrive from Wellington on Thursday, and will give an illustrated lecture in the Navy League Hall on Thursday evening. They will leave fer the south on Friday. A bar to the Order of Merit conferred on him in 1918 was added to the medal decoration held by Mr 11. A. Innes-Jones, honorary Boy Scout Commissioner for South Canterbury, and a member of the Dominion Boy Sj nit Association, at a function on Saturday evening, in recognition of his twentytwo years’ service in the movement. The presentatio.i was made by Colonel P. Clennel Fenwick, C.M.G., Y.D,, Chief Commissioner for New Zealand, who was accompanied by Major W. E. S. Fuiby, Dominion Headquarters Commissioner.

Regret at the retirement of Mr John Deans was expressed at this morning’s meeting of the Board of Governors of Canterbury Agricultural College. The chairman. Dr 11. G. Denham, moved: “ That the board place on record its deep appreciation of the loyal and valued services rendered over a period of twenty years by ]\Jr John Deans, both as member and chairman of the board, and expresses to him its keen regret at the severance of his connection with the college.” The motion was carried after a number of members had paid tributes to Mr Deans’s