Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19178, 8 December 1927, Page 8

Personal Items.

Sir John Findlay (Wellington) is a guest at Warner's Hotel. -~ The Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., returned to Christ-church yesterday.

Captain J. R. Middleton, D.5.0., R.N., Director of New Zealand Naval Reserves, left for Diinedin yesterday.

Messrs E. J. Howard and H. S. S. Kyle, M.P.'s, returned to Christchurch from Wellington yesterday. Recent arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel include Messrs L. Milliken (Springfield), L. K. Nosworthy (Ashburton), and F. Lincoln (Auckland).

Mr C. E. Barnes, Railway Passenger Agent for the South Island, has arrived from Dunedin, and has taken up his duties ill Christchurch;

Mr W. Nasli, National Secretary of tho New Zealand Labour Party, will attend the W.E.A. Summer School to be held at Methven at the end of the year. At last night's meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Progress League a vote of condolence was passed with Mr B. Falck, president of the Canterbury Automobile Association, in th® recent death of his wife. Guests at Warner'a Hotel inoludb Captain Fox (Auckland), Messrs J. C/. Morrison (Wellington), Arthur Wiffen (Blenheim), J. A. MoNicol (Auckland), F. J. Purfi (Dunedin), and D. Ardell {Wellington).

Mr H. C. Guinness, chief clerk District Railway Traffic Manager's office, and Mr T. Lawless, chief clerk in the Railway Engineer's office, are in Timaru at present conducting a departmental enquiry. Mr O. H. Clibborn, acting-secretary and treasurer to the Lyttelton Harbour Board, was yesterday appointed to represent that body on the Canterbury Progress League in succession to the ex-secretary and engineer, Mr Cyrus J. R. Williams. v A vote of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr P. G. Morgan, of the Government Geological Department, was passed at last night's meeting of the Canterbury Philosophical Insitute. Professor R. Speight referred to the zealous work carried out by Mr Morgan in the cause of science.

Motions of condolence with the relatives of Mr Charles Overton, and of Mr Percy Acton-Adams were agreed to by the General Committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association at its meeting yesterday. The president (Mr E. Hay) said that the late Mr Overton was a very old member of the Association, and Mr Acton-Adams also had been an old member and had often judged for the Association. The Association had suffered a great loss by the deaths of both gentlemen. The president of the Canterbury Progress League (Mr J. E. Strachan), who took his seat at the table at last night's meeting of the executive for the first time since his' return from his trip to the U.S.A., was welcomed on behalf of the executive by Mr J. H. Blackwell, who said that it was gratifying to know that Mr Strachan's health had greatly benefited thereby. Mr Strachan, in returning tha.nks for the welcome, said that in addition to an improvement in his health the trip had greatly extended his knowledge of matters which, he hoped, would prove of benefit to the League and the province.