Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19147, 2 November 1927, Page 8

Personal Items.

Mr Justice Frazer (Wellington) is at Warner's Hotel. Advice has been received that Dr. I. M. Allen, formerly of Rangiora, has passed the London M.R.C.P. degree. Messrs Gordon Holmes <Auokland) and B. H. Macdonald (Geraldine) are amongst the guests at Warner's Hotel.

Messrs F. E. Burnett (Sydney), lan McWilliam (Wellington), and R. A. McKenzie (Palmerston North) are amongst the guests at the United Service Hotel. Guests at the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs F. Palmer (Wellington), F. W. Hudson (Auckland), M. H. Yock (Auckland), W. T. ( Hazlett (Invercargill), and A. J. Murray (Woodbank). Professor B. J. Bell (Dunedin) has been elected to fill the casual vacancy on the Academic Board caused by the resignation of Professor Inglis (Dunedin). The Board (formerly the Board of Studies) will hold its first meeting in Wellington to-day.—Press Association. Mr E. E. D. Clarke, owner of Trivalve, winner of th« Melbourne Cup, who has been staying at Dunedin, will be a • passenger for the north to-day to Temuka, where he will spend " his annual holiday trout fishing in the South Canterbury rivers, states an Oamaru Press--Asso-ciation message.

not be advisable in the meantime to fill all the positions up to seven members. An amendment strengthening the value of the debentures was contained in an additional proviso to the effect that in the event of the appointment of a receiver, the claims of debenture-hold-ers will have priority over all claims by the Crown in respect of moneys advanced to the Board from the Consolidated Fund.

The Bill originally proposed that the members of the Board should appoint their chairman, but this was altered, making the appointment one to be made by the Governor-General-in-Council. The chairman is to be chosen from the members of thej Board, and he is to hold office during the pleasure of the Gover-nor-General, or for a definite period, as may be decided on. Another amendment in the miscellaneous claiises in the Bill provided that securities given over chattels for the purposes of obtaining a loan under the scheme shall have priority over all prior instruments of security, if the grantees of the prior instruments concur. The Bill was reported as amended, read a third time, and passed.

ATTITUDE OF BANKS. " (PMSS , ASSOCIATION TELEGBAM.) WELLINGTON, November 1. Interviewed, in regard to a statement made by the Prime Minister in the House that the banks had poured cold water on the Rural Intermediate Credits Bill, the chairman of the Associated Banks stated that farmers may rest assured their interests will not be in any way prejudiced by criticisms and suggestions made by the Associated Banks in connexion with the Bill when it was presented to them in its initial stage, and their interests will be as well cared for by the banks in future as has admittedly been done in the past.