Personal Items.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 5 March 1932, Page 14

Personal Items.

_ Dr. J. Hight, Sector of Canterbury University College, was a passenger from tlae North Island bv this morning's ferry. Archbishop Julius has returned to Christchurch after an extensive motor tour of the West Coast and Queen Charlotte Sound districts. Mr W. C. Tish, managing director of the Bell Hill Gold Sluicing. Company, has left for a short trip to the West Coast. Messrs T. D. Burnett, M.P., and E. J. Howard, M.P., arrived from Wellington yesterday morning. Dr. H. G. Denham, Professor of Chemistry at Canterbury College, and a member of the Economy Commission, arrived from the north yesterday. The Bt. Bev. F. A. Bennett, Bishop of Aotea-Eoa, was a passenger from the north by yesterday's ferry. The Hon. E. Scott, M.L.C., arrived from Wellington yesterday. Mr G. D, White Parsons, A.M.1.C.E.. of Lyttelton, is now on the technical staff of the London Electric Bailways, and is engaged on work in connexion with the extensions to the Piccadilly Tube Bailway.

Mr E. K. Murphy, of Napier, is stay ing at Warner's Hotel.

Mr B. Perkins (Wellington) is a visitor at the United Servic'e Hotel.

Captain G. M. Buxton, who was in the employ of the Union' Steam Ship Company for 34 years, and who retired last September, has arrived from Sydney on a holiday visit.

Mr Justice Adams left Christchurch last evening for Wellington, to attend a sitting of the Full Court. He will probably return next Thursday. Mr W. A. Marshall, stationmaster at Timaru, who has been appointed commercial agent for the Railway Department, was a passenger for the south by yesterday afternoon's express, to assume the duties of the new nosi-' tion. .

Squadron-Leader T. M. Wilkes, Director of Air Services, arrived from the north by yesterday's ferry steamer. Yesterday he inspected the pilots attending the refresher course at Wigram Aerodrome.

Messrs John Bowen (Perth, Western Australia), and C. E. Seager (Timaru) Hote a i m ° ng the SU6StS at the Clarendon

~Mr Macbean btewart, formerly 0 t the Masterton branch, li as taken over the charge of the Dannevirke office of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., vice Mr F von Dadelszen, resigned.

* The good wishes and congratulations of the Christchurch Technical College Board of Governors were extended to Mr W. H.. Joyce, secretary to the Board, on his approaching marriage, and he was granted a fortnight's leave 0 f absence.

Messrs H. Kitson, h\ Georce am) W. H. Winsor have been appointed to represent the Christchurch domains Board at a conference to be held in Christchurch on April llth to go into the proposal oi the United liurgesses Association to form a Motropolitan Board of Works.

, R - .£• , B ?£ e f> ° f Wellington, has been notified that he has passed the nnal examination for admission to the Institution of Civil Engineers, London. Upon his return to New Zealand after his war service, Mr Baker studied at Canterbury College, taking the diploma in civil engineering and specialising the study of reinforced concrete He is at present on the de--5L,, . 0 engineers department of the Wellington City Council. The Rev. D. Haultain, -who has been appointed vicar of All Saints' Church,

Nelson, arrived at Wellington on Tuesday by the MaTama from Sydney. Formerly of Christchurch, Mr Haultaia has been stationed in Australia almost constantly i since 1912. He spent four year iii East Africa engaged in missionary work, and later was -with the East African expeditionary force in German East Africa. He succeeds Archdeacon J. E. Dart, who has retired from parochial work as vicar of/All, Saints' Church, 'Nelson.

■ After ihe. official -.4 Katikati yhcnv this y"jp£ E. Macniillan, MinisW ture, presented to Mjaj chairman of the Kat mittee, a large. f« the - late Mr David" tain of the All visited. Great ing the presentation J| he was a schoolmasw