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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21417, 8 March 1935, Page 10

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Sir Lindo Ferguson was a passen ger from Wellington by the Ransa" lira yesterday morning. Sir George Elliot, accompanied hv Lady Elliot, left Auckland on Monday evening for Sydney. Mr H. D. Acland left Christchurch last evening on a visit to the North Island. He expects to return on Saturday morning. Mr E. S. Brittenden, District Railway Traffic Manager, has left Christchurch for the West Coast He expects to return on Sunday. ' * . Mr R. L. Wigley. manager of the Mount Cook Tourist Company was a passenger for the north by the steamer express last evening." Mr W. S. Stone, of Auckland, who has been attending the Methodist Conference in Dunedin. arrived Tn Christchurch on Wednesday and left by the steamer express last evening Mr R. S. Taylor has been appointed club captain of the Canterbury Aero Club in succession to Mr J. J. Busch. who was recently appointed commercial pilot to the" club The Hons. W. Hayward. T. O'Byrne. and R. Moore, members of the Legislative Council, arrived from Wellington by the Rangatira yesterday morning. Sub-Inspector John Fox. who recently received promotion, left Christchurch for the north last evening, to take up his new appointment at the Central Police Station, Auckland. Major H. R. Crailshan, of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, who has been on a holiday visit to the Dominion in the course of a world tour, left Auckland for Honolulu by the Niagara on Monday. A vote of condolence with Mr F. W. Hobbs, president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, in the death of his mother, was passed by the council of the chamber at it's meeting last evening. At a recent meeting of the Board of Governors of St. Andrew's College, Dr. D. McK. Dickson, M.8.. Ch.B. (N.Z.). M.R.C.P. (London), F.R.C.S. (Edin.), was appointed medical officer to the college. The Rev. Clarence Eaton, chairman of the North Canterbury Methodist District, returned yesterday from Dunedin, where he attended the Methodist Conference. He was accompanied by Mrs Eaton. Mr Justice Johnston, who returned to Christchurch last night from the West Coast, will leave for Wellington to-morrow night to attend the sittings of the Court of Appeal. He will probably be in Wellington for about five weeks. Mr Arthur Rosscr, president of the New Zealand Federation of Justices of the Peace, and Mr A. J. Stratford, the registrar of the federation, are expected to reach Christchurch on Sunday on their way to Dunedin where the conference of the federation is to be held next week. Messrs A. H. Hobbs, H. F. Herbert and A. Williams, delegates from the Canterbury Justices of the Peace Association to the Dominion conference of the New Zealand Federation of Justices of the Peace, to be held in Dunedin next week, will leave for the south on Monday morning. Mr H. J. Otley. chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, who went to the North Islard to represent the board at the annual conference of the New Zealand Hospital Boards' Association at Napier, was taken ill on Tuesday. He has since been seriously ill in a nursing home in Hastings. A telegram received by his son yesterday afternoon stated that he was making slight progress. Mr J. F. Sinclair. Stock Inspector for the Department of Agriculture at Amberley, has been appointed to the position of Farm Inspector for the Public Trust Office. Mr Sinclair will be stationed in the Wellington province. He is well known in North Canterbury, having been inspector at Amberley for several years. He joined the Agriculture Department after the war—in which he served for four years—and was at first stationed at Hamilton. Since then he has been inspector at Kaikoura, FaiiTie and Amberley. Dr. P. Stanley Foster, of Christchurch, the new District Governor of Rotary in New Zealand, will leave Auckland by the Aorangi oh April 2 for Canada. He will study new developments in surgery in Montreal and Toronto, and also in the United States, and in the middle of June he will attend the International Rotary Conference, at which some 53 nations will be represented, at Mexico City. Dr. Foster will be the New Zealand representative both at the principal conference and at the conference of district governors preceding it. The conference is expected to conclude on June 21, and Dr. Foster intends leaving for New Zealand by the Monterey from Los Angeles a few days after.