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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19163, 21 November 1927, Page 8

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—* — Captain J. L. Findlay returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning from the north. Messrs W. Kirkham and G. Tidcastle (Auckland) are staying at the. Clarendon Hotel. Recent arrivals at Warner's Hotel are Messrs R. S. Newcombe, P. .u. Wales (Auckland), and S. B. Wimbley (Sydney)., The death is reported from London of Mr James Ballance, a brother of an ex-Premier of New Zealand, following a motor-bus accident in County Antrim. Dr. H. G. Denham, Professor of Chemistry at Canterbury College, returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning from Wellington. The Hon. Messrs Moore, Craigie, Smith. Witty, and Fleming, members of the Legislative Council, were passengers to Christchurch by the ferry steamer on Saturday morning. Messrs F. Pawson and A. Pritchard, business agents for New Zealand Railways, returned to Christchurch on Saturday morning from Wellington, where they have been attending a conference of business agents. The death is announced from New Plymouth of Mr E,dward Dockrill, Mayor of New Plymouth from 1897 to 1902 and 1906-7. Prior to 1880 he spent fourteen years .on the West Coast and Thames goldfields. Mr M. McLeod, Senior Inspector of. Primary Schools,' and Mr J. E. Purchase, principal of the Training Gollege,_ returned to Christchurch from Wellington on Saturday. They have been attending the Primary Schools' Syllabus Commission. At the Catholic Cathedral yesterday, at the last Mass, his Lordship Bishop Brodie raised to the priesthood the Rev. Gordon Daly, 8.A., a student of Mosgiel Seminary, and a son of Mr and Mrs W. Daly, Lancaster street, Christchurch Among the guests at the United Service Hotel are. Messrs E. B. S. Hill (Auckland), M. E. Durham (Wellington), M. L\ Yock (Auckland), .1. Shaddock (Dunedin), C. Gray (Invercargill), H. J. Hapgood (Sydney), and P. S. K. Macassey (Wellington). Messrs J. McCombs, F. Waite, T. D. Burnett, E. P. Lee. J. Bitchener, and H. L. Tapley, members of Parliament, arrived in Christchurch by Saturday morning's ferry steamer on their way home from Parliament for the weekend. Mr A. W. Beaven, president of the Canterbury Manufacturers' Association, left on Friday to attend the annual conference of the New .Zealand Manufacturers' Federation, which is being held ■in Auckland. Mr H. Bradley, vice-president, left on Thursday, and Messrs H. Willis and E. H. Marriner left on Saturday night.