PERSONAL

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20508, 9 January 1935, Page 8

PERSONAL

MINISTERIAL. The Minister of Public Works, the Hon John Bitchener, arrived from Wellington this morning and left for the south. Mr Thomas G. Hull (Wellington) is staying at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr T. Cassidy (Greymouth) is a guest at the Royal Hotel. Captain J. W. Tweedie arrived from Wellington this morning. Mr Arthur T. O’Brien, of the firm of Messrs M. O’Brien and Co., Ltd., has left on an extended visit to Australia. Mr W. W. Duff, of Wellington, manager of R.K.0.-Radio Pictures, is visiting Christchurch. Mr S. G. Phillips (Wellington) is among the guests at the United Service Hotel. Bishop Brodie returned from Wellington this morning, after attending the funeral of Archbishop Redwood. Mr H. C. Hassall has returned to Christchurch after spending the Christmas and New Year holidays at Arthur’s PassGuests at the New City Hotel inelude Messrs H. R. Bruce-Burns (North Canterbury), R. Hampton (Dunedin), and F. H. Searle (Timaru). Major-General Sir W. L. 11. SinclairBurgess, Officer Commanding the New Zealand Military Forces, arrived from Wellington this morning. Mr J. G. D. Ward left last evening for Wellington on the first stage of his voyage to England. He was accompanied to Wellington by Sir Cyril Ward. Mr C. Hastings Bridge, of Christchurch, who has been in a private hospital in Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, as the result of an accident, is reported to be progressing toward recovery. The Rev Dr V. Geaney, president of the Roman Catholic college at Greenmeadows, Hawke’s Bay, left for Australia by the Wanganella on Saturday. Mr Claude Kingston, concert director for J. and N. Tait, who is supervising the tour of the Grenadier Guards Band, arrived in Christchurch last night. Mr Kingston will leave for Wellington this evening.

Mr J. Erskine, of Wellington, publicity manager for Warner Brothers, arrived in Christchurch to-day to make arrangements for the screening of “ Circus Clown, ” which will be shown at the Crystal Palace Theatre when it re-opens.

Mr C. W. Collins, librarian, Canterbury University College, who has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever and has been in hospital in Geraldine for jver a fortnight, is recovering slowly, but it is still uncertain when he will be able to be brought to his home at Clifton.

The Very Rev Monsignor Morkane. administrator of the Dunedin Cathedral Parish, the Very Rev Dr Kennedy, Beckenham, and Fathers J. C. Outtrim, J. Downey, J. Quinn, T. S. Kavanagh, and C. E. Knight returned from Wellington this morning after attending the funeral of Archbishop Redwood. Mr C. W. Earle, president of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of New Zealand, who spent the week-end in Christchurch, returned to Wellington last night. He will leave there by the Monowai to-morrow on 0 business trip to Sydney.