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Messrs A. R. Turnbull (Balcairn) and W. S. Short (Auckland) are staying at the Clarendon Hotel.
Recent arrivals at the United Service Hotel-are: —Messrs W. J. Warder (Melbourne), and J. Wilson (Dunedin). Mr H. Sweney has returned to Christchurch after a visit to the West Cdast.
Mr T. 0. Bishop, secretary of the New Zealand Employers' Association, is at present in Greymouth. Mr C. E. Foweraker, Director of Forestry at Canterbury College, is at present engaged on forestry matters on the West Coast.
Mr W. D. Andrews leaves for the West Coast to-day to interview candidates for probationerships under tho Canterbury Education Board. Messrs It. S. Kent (Divisional Super intendent, N.Z.li.) and L. W. Robertson (Loco. Engineer) are visiting Westport.
Among the guests at Warner's Hotel are:—Messrs G. Mathias (South Canterbury), W. Taylor, and H. Burdekin (Dunedin). A motion of sympathy with the relatives of tho late Colonel P. ActonAdams was passedJ at last night's meeting of the Canterbury Automobile Association.
At last night's meeting of the Canterbury Automobile Association a motion of sympathy was accorded the president, Mr B. Falck, Avhose wife died recently.
Dr. J. Hight will leave England for New Zealand shortly by the Canadian Pacific route. He yill spend a few days at Honolulu with Dr. J. B. Condliffe, Director of the Institute of Pacific Relations.
Mr L. W. Robertson, Loco Engineer for the South Island, N.Z.R.. will leave 011 a holiday trip to Australia at the end of this month. During his absence, Mr G. Wilson, of the head office staff, will carry out his duties.
Advice has been received in Invercargill that Dr. Walter Bremner, of Dunedin, who has been in London for the past two years, has passed his final examination for the degree of F.R.C.S., England. —Press Association. Mr J. Taylor, who has retired from the position of railway locomotive inspector for the South Island after forty years' service, was in the employ of the old Manawatu Railway Company at the time it was taken over by the Government in 1908. On behalf of the locomotive staff of the South Island, Mr R S. Kent, Divisional Superintendent, made a presentation to Mr Taylor last yeek of a gold watch
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19176, 6 December 1927, Page 10
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369Personal Items. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19176, 6 December 1927, Page 10
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