Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17111, 5 April 1921, Page 6

Personal Items.

Mr F. Pago (has returned to <*"&* church after a successful bUßlnc»tt«.' through the United States of AiMrtP* Thirty-nine npplications were reooijw -„ fir the position of custodian of W Christchurdi City Council Chftmbw. . Mr George T. AVJUiams was WPoMg , to the position. The Council last nig», recorded its appreciation of tue ■«• vices rendered by the retiring enrto. t dian, Mr Essolborn, and .Mrs BawHwru. during the past thirty jears. .< Mr Leslie D. Coombs, A.E.l.B.^tf*' chitect, of Dunedin, has, on tho ««*>*« mendation of Uhe Cnristeiinrch «■>£ of the New; Zealand Institute of AW* tects, been appointed assessor of U» , forthcoming competition for designs m . the Bridge of Remembrance war ittMMh • rial, to be erected over tho Avon V> Cr.shel street. * * Tho Rev. D. D. Rodger, who for twett* . years past lias been the minisU-r ,m ■ 'charge of the I'npanui PresbytariM Church, and has brcn serving in various churches in Christchurch for tho past . 36 years', is retiring from an active par* i in the ministry. He will bo givrn * farewell so-jinl bv his congregation lIW , other friends in St. Paul's ucholroom | this evening. ]

Mr S. B:iird, on severing hi« <*Bnexion with the \Voolston School as M* distant master to tako up the poßiuoj* of 'headmaster of the Southbrook School, was presented by Miss E. English, on lehalf of the Standard VI. girls, witll* sucdo pocket wallet, and by Mastw\A. Taylor, on behalf of tho boys, with a travelling ease. At MOW* ing tea, Mr AVest, headmaster, on byhalf of the teaching staff, handed Mr Baird an initialled gold-mounted foiiotain pen.