Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18413, 20 June 1925, Page 14

Personal Items.

The Hon. Sir Janes Parr. .Minister of Education and Postmaster-Uenera! arrived from tho south yesterdav evening. To-day tho Minister trill open ts* consolidated rchool at Oxford— the first of its k.ml *■» t'anterhu.T—and in tho evening will leave tor Welling. ton.

Mr S. P. Martin tDuuedin) is at tit* Clarendon Hotel. *"

Messrs A. M. Steele- (Auckland) and W. God by (AVolliiigtoni giro at tho United Service Hotel Mr "W. H. P. Anderson. London secretary of tho Mission to l.orvrs. *»ll arrive in Cliristchurch this erening from Bevftou. He will bo the guest of Mr and Mrs H. Malcolm, Park* tcrrae*. Mr R. C 'Bishop, general manager ef the Cliristchurch Gas Co., U reported to he improving in health, and hi* condition is less serious thnsi it uu a week ago. A motion of sympathy w.-.s paved at yesterday's mooting of "tho Canterbury Board of Education with tho relatives of tho late- Mr P. E. Schmidt, tor many years architect to tho Board.

Mr V. B. Willis, recently a partner in tho firm of Messrs McGrath snd Willis, solicitors. Wellington, has boon appointod to tho legal staff of tho Public Trust Office, Wellington.

Tho Rev. John Paterson, of Wanganui, formerly of Christohurch. » at present on a short visit to tho city and will preach in St. Paul'* Pre*bytenaa Church to-morrow evening. Guest"* at Warners Hotel lnclntto Messrs F. M. Bolt (Wellington). H. H. Phillips (Toronto). J. A. E. Reynolds (Dunodin), K. 11. Ludbrook (Ruatorea), C. Grnv (Pukoroa Bar), and H. 1. D«4voll (Wellington). A number of the leading business citizens in Cliristchurch a&fembled at Warner's Hotel last evening, when a. banquet, was tendered to Mr Hartaaa P. Finemore, formorlv managing director of Butters (X.Z.), Limited, who leaves on Monday for an extended business tour of the United States, England and the Continent. Mr H. F. Stevens presided. During tho areaing speeches were made by the chairman (Mr H. F. Stevens) and Messrs W. Baxter, X. F. Wostwood, I>. Haie. S. Jacobs, i! -Sutton, Crosbie, ana L. E. Strnchan. each of whom referred to tho esteem in which Mr Finootore was held in the business community, not only in Cliristchurch, but throughout tho Dominion. On behilf of u» business community, and more especially the members of the chemists* and aerated water industries. Mr Fincoore was presented by the chairman with a substantial token of the esteem in which ho is hold throughout New Zealand. Mr Finomore suitably replied.