Personal Items.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17122, 18 April 1921, Page 7

Personal Items.

Mr Tom Pollard arrived from Greymouth on Saturday night. Sir George ..Clifford was a passenger from Wellington by yesterday's ferry steamer. Mr Felix Campbell, of Greymouth, arrived in Christchurch oa Saturday, evening. Mr J. D. Lynch and,Mr H. E. Hoi-, land, M.P., were among the passengers from the north bv yesterday's ferry steamer. A civic welcome will be given in the City Council Chambers to-miirow afternoon, at 4 o'clock, to Mr l udy Langer, the world's champion swimmer. The Hon. §ir William Hall-Jones, M.L.C., will leave by the Ruapehu this week on a visit to England. He expects to return in time for the mam business of next session of Parliament. Mr J. O. Cooper was on Saturday night elected president of the Christchurch Working Men's Club, in succession to Mr A. Peverill, who had rer signed. Another member of the Tariff Comnfission, Mr M. P. Cameron, arrived from the south on Saturday to attend the sittings of the Commission beginning this morning.

Mr H. D. M. Haszard, formerly Commissioner of Crown Land s_ for Canterbury, left on Saturday night for the North Island.- ,Mr Haszard intends leaving shortly on a world tour.

Advice has been received that Mr P. V. Storkey, V.C., son of Mr and Mrs S. J. Storkey, of Napier, has -passed his final law Mr Storkey is associate to Mr justice Wade in Sydney. Major A. A. McNab, D.S;O., haß returned to New Zealand after four years' active service in Samoa, Egypt, and France. In the last-named theatre of war he was badly gassed, and later lost an arm, when, Toeing unable to return to active service, he ■ entered Christ's College, Cambridge, where he has been for the last three years, taking his Arts Degree and LL.B. Later he was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn. Mr H. G. Kemp,' of the Public Works Department, Christchurch, has been advised that on the results of the Associate Membership Examination of the Institution of Civil. Engineers, held at Home and abroad 151 Octoief last, he has been awarded the Bayliss Prize for the' highest aggregate marks. Mr Kemp took lectures last year at the School of Engineering, Canterbury College. Dr. T. W. Leys and Mrs Leys returned to Auckland on Friday by the Niagara. Last February they left for Canada, where Dr. Leys attended the Imperial Press Congress as chairman of the Dominion representatives. From there they travelled across to U.S.A., and then to. England, and also visited the Continent. During the Press Conference in Canada Dr. Leys was one of the two delegates upon whom the Mc- • Gill University conferred the degree of D.C.L. . News has been received that Mr J. Vivian Wilson, a "former pupil of the Christchurch Boys' High School, and graduato of the New Zealand University, has won one of the Craven Scholarships, offered this year. The Craven is the blue .ribbon of Cambridge Uili-. Versity. Mr Wilson, who took a First Class 'in the First Part of the Classical Tripos, is now preparing for the Second jpstrt. He spent, his last long vacation, afc Florence, workings with Professor Conway oh a new manuscript of Livy, find he intends to continue research wprk on. taking his degree. Last week a large deputation of ratepayers in the borough of Geraldine waited, upon Mr E. Hardcastle, late of Christchurch, and asked hini to stand as a candidate for the Mayoralty of, the borough. After consideration Mr Hardcaistle said he was sorry he was unable to see his way to comply with, the request. Further pressure was, however, broughi&to bear during the week, end'finally Mr Hardcastle agreed to become a candidate. He is at .present pne of the representatives of the. Geraldino county oil the South Canterbury Hospital Board. Mr B. R. Macdonald, the present Mayor, is also seeking rs-plection. Mr P, J). Leslie, New Zealand manager of the Colonial Mutual Assurance Company, who returned to Wellington from- Australia last week, has been appointed manager of the' South African branches of the company, with headquarters at Capetown, and will leave New Zealand in about a month. Mr Ifesjie, one of the best-known of New Zealand insurance managers, has been in the Colonial Mutual Office for about thirty-five years, and has been New Zealand manager since 1906. Mr Les-> lie returned from an extended tour of the United Kingdom about three months ago. Mr A. H, Johns, of the company's Melbourne offico, will succeed Mr Leslie as. New Zealand manager. Mr Charles Francis, the Dean of American .Printers, who is touring the world,-ds Cotumissioner of the United States Government, to enquire into industrial conditions in the countries he visits, and who reached Australia in February, passed through Christchurch fcn Saturday morning on his way to the southern lakes, and was met and weU corped bv Mr J. Gamble,' president of the Master Printers' Association of New Zealand,, and Mr A. J. Benzie, president of the Christchurch Master printers' Association. Mr Francis' tour will include visits to Japan, China, the Philippines, Australia. New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, France, and Great Britain. He has received a commission from "the Secretary of La? bour to visit these countries for the in? vestigation of labour matters and he is also an accredited representative of the American Federation of Lftlkour, the Allied Printing Trades .Association, the United Typthetae of America, _.and' the Printers' League of America. .Mr Francis was born in. London, educated in Australia, and learned printing in New Zealand. He is accompanied by a married daughter, Mrs L, F. Fitch, who is an Attorney and Counsellor-at-law, and formerly a teachter in the Brooklyn public schools. This lady has done some active ,work. in the- matter of vocational training as it relates to the welfare of the pupils in public and private Bchools, and has an appointment to pursue investigations in this subject "from the United States Commissioner of Education.