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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21410, 28 February 1935, Page 12

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Captain A. Inn C ~-T.- 'or a ber of the Byrd Antarctic' eS" tion, is visiting Christchurch « is staying at the United wHotel. a ber vice Mr C. B. Hearn who is the «•. rral manager of the Colonial MuSrt Life Assurance Society, Ltd vrill* rive in Christchurch tended the opening of the iocfetX new building in Wellington, aid i! now engaged on an inspection ii New Zealand branched nof 311 The Rev. A. W. Stuart, who *i=e been organiser for the British Foreign Bible Society i n CanS bury will leave on March 13 to take up the position of organiser for society in New South Wales. Messrs H. J. Otlev, L B A. T. Smith, and H. H. Holland yesterday appointed to represent ih North Canterbury Hospital Boardlt the general conference of hosnital boards which will open at Napier on March 5. Colonel Granville Walton Tm perial Headquarters Commissioner for Rover Scouts, will return tn Christchurch with the Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell, to-day, and will stay with Mrs Cracroft Wilson dur ing his visit to Christchurch. A resolution congratulating Mr DaviS Jones on his appointment to the Executive Commission of Aeri culture was passed kt the meeting of the executive of the North Can terbury branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union yesterday. ~ Lieutenant-Colonel P. h RpII N.Z S C.. left Christchurch yesterday for the south. He visited the Wai taki Boys' High School, where hi presented two cadet trophies an<i later left for Sutton, Central Otaco to inspect the camp of the Sixteenth (Christchurch) Battery. h A paragraph in the "Architect's Journal" states that Mr Paul Pascoe has been awarded the certificate of honourable mention for an essav entitled "The Study of the Earlv Buildings in the Canterbury Settlement of New Zealand." and "was runner-up for the silver medal of the Royal Institute, London. Mr Pascoe is at present in London gaining experience in his profession. Dr. Charles Gill Morgan, chief geologist and geophysicist with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, is at present on a visit to the Mount Cook areas in company with Dr. E. Marsden, head of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for geophysical survey work. Next month Dr. Morgan hopes to be in Christchurch, visiting relatives here, the Rev. H. L. and Mrs Blamires, of Merivale. Members of the re.iding room and the mechanical staff of "The Press" assembled last evening to say goodbye to Mr J. S. H. Perkins, who has relinquished his position in the reading room to go to College House to study for the English Church ministry. Mr R. E. Gillespie, chief reader, presented Mr Perkins with a fountain pen, and assured him of the good wishes of his friends of "The Press" staff. Mr 0. G. Walker, adding his good wishes, spoke of Mr Perkins's sportsmanlike qualities.