Personal Items.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18218, 31 October 1924, Page 8

Personal Items.

Mr J. I>. Lynch arrived from Greymouth last night.

Dr. D. McMillan has recovered from his recent operation in Lewisham Hospital and has returned to his home in Darfield.

Messrs J. A. Eeeve (Auckland), P. C. Halley (Wellington), and J. Hargest (inverca'rgill) are at tho United Service Hotel.

\ motion of svmnathy with Mr R. Snell and family "in tneir bereavement was passed at the annual meeting ct the New Brighton Surf Club, held last night.

Recent arrivals at Warner's Hotel include Messrs C. G. Richardson (Wellington), W. H. Moorehouee (Wellington), H. N. Bambridge (Melbourne), and A. F. Dickins (London). Guests at the Clarendon Hotel are Messrs A. Beauchamp (Wellington), C. Gillham (Melbourne), L. Inglis (Timaru), and Dr. E. Teichelmann (Hokitika). Mr Walter Hill, chairman -of the Christchureh Drainage Board, left for Wellington last night to give evidence before a Parliamentary Committee on the Christchureh District Drainage Act Amendment Bill.

Mr N. R. A. Cdx, sheepfarmer, of Halswell and Chatham Islands, has just returned to Christchureh after & six months 1 trip to the United Kingdom and Canada. Wliile in London Mr Cox formed one of a party of Australian and New Zealand? merchants to visit the London docks, for which a special trip was arranged by the Port of London Authority. From London Mr Cox travelled through the greater part of Scotland, and on returning crossed to France by aeroplane. He visited that part of tho Hindenbnrg line where the American troops first went into .motion. All the broken defences of that' celebrated line, Mr Cox says, are still to be seen. On returning to England Mr Cox attended a conference of Dominion wool growers at Bradford. He said that at the conference complaints were made by the millowners relative to tho tar oranding .on fleeces, which, it wjis claimed, reduced the value of the wool by 2d per lb. An endeavour, however, was to be made to discover a branding agent which would not impair the value of the wool. Another complaint was the presence of foreign fibres in the wool from the jute packing, and it was suggested tha,t the French paper bale material should be used or bales made of wool which could be used for the one season and then sold for manufacture into some wool material. At present all the jute hairs had to be extracted by hand before the wool could be used by the mills.