Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21418, 9 March 1935, Page 14

Personal Items

The Hon. D. BudcTo. M.L.C. w:-; a irom Wellington. fcV t"-'" Wahine yesterday morning. The Minister for Public the Hon. J. Bit chencr. is exoe~n-.~ to arrive from Wellington'""VC..morning to spend the week-etv;" ;r his home at Waimate. Dr. H. G* Denharn rcinraca -o Christchureh from the ivrth \n«. terday morning. Messrs Stronach :n a:\-i Gladstone Hiil were ras-*. r.« fr Wellington by the Wa'-.tne yi..tc:\-hv morning. Mr F. C. B'vwn. c c: - y .. - structor to the Depart'-. .a" culture, will retire at t ; - April aider 30 voar.-' the department.- Pr*a-. As- •. :. s \ Mr G. I). Mcllraha. . : the ChrisUiiui'i'h bra,a-a 5v...... Zealand Insurance Cor-pa---. , a leave for a six nionaa • t !; land in about a fc-rtr, . Mr C. F. Purchase v.:,-; ad—nta i as a barris'c <>f ia.e Soa-aere c -• of New Zealand ry Ma .Johnston yesieise;. ee :l of Mr W. J. Sun. Professor .1. Male:.;-:, of Physiology at teas Cr..- v.r.-iiv Otago, was a passenger ps-m Wellington by the Wnhsr.e > e c~ :i a v morning. Mr C. H. Bursvii. piv.'-i-.t.r " tee Canterbury Manu'Vi-suiv.v Aeration, returned it: Chr°..-?c'.--,ov'r. ;r tn Wellington yesterday a:vr attending a council ir"et:ag presidents of the New Zcalc.r.u Maaefacturers' Asse ctatton,. Tiie Trades and Labour C aaad has decided to unions that Mr F. L>. C raa.e'l (Secretary to 'he Trades aej Lai - our Council. We.lingt":; bo i.ht:r representative to ih<% Ir.u v-r: I Labour Conference at Geneva.— Press Association. Mr H. J. Otky. ' North Canterbury Hosp:tai B-ar:i. who was laken it Napier, where he board at the ani-.ual coruVrerc-? the New Zealand Association and \- a nursing home in Hasr ; ngs, aaa a ta.ai for the worse via A telegram requc to Hastings was received by hi? .v \ Mr Sydney Otiey. Ho left : t 4 o'c in a Canterbury ( Moth machine, piloted by Mr J. J. Busch, commercial puoi ;u me e:us>. Deep regret at the death !-.fc G. H. Mason is expressed in lite annual report of the Canterbury Rugbv Union. The report says ta-t Mr Mason's recc>rd of scraiee u v."} code in New Zealand was a distinguished one. He was a foundation member of the Syc.enha— Club, and held active office in the union for 25 years as a member c: the committee, vice-president. and president. He had also been Dissident of the New Zealand Rugby Union, and was manager of the All Black team which toured California in 1913. For the last six years Mr Mason had been a life member r>; the Canterbury Union, an i"ciiv> tion of the value his s.r.viao :<■* tiie game and of the esteerii 1:1 which he was held. The retirement of Mr A. E. UcPhail from the presidency- c.' the Canterbury Rugby l"n:<-n is announced with resn-t in ; h . report of the union. v-aa-a - ore-rented at the anm:-.' rv-n : "e. : Wcdnesdav week. •Mr "v.'?'"- 1' participation in t;-,r ;;d:r ar-tra' of Rugby in Ih's rrov 1 - over the last 22 ' cara" the roc a* states. "During the iast five ho has occupied the p.■■■nonresident with credit (■> him-M/ to the sport. While aii with the game will reiret cision not to seek rc-electi> 1: : - gratifying to know that, as immediate past-president, his position ••• the management committee ••••:!! enable the benef k f of his exn:ri:-c-" and knowledge to be sv?;: £ -k> tho incoming committee." Mr E. R. Guinness, of Geraldiiie. was elected president of the Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association at the annual meeting cf thp.t bodv yesterday, in succession to Dr. P. R. Woodhouse. who has retired after being two years in ofHe-. Mr A. S. Elworthy (Holme Station, South Canterbury) was sterday elected viee-presiciem of rh" Timaru Agricultural and Pasta;--; Association. Mr Elworthy tvs; president of the association 2n ago. The Chief -Scout, Lar'l B-uer;. Powell, arrived in Chiastet-e • v> Lady Baden-Powell no. T" 1 and attended a meotmg <>f r--«- D'-.-minion cxocutive co : nni!t 4r :e of ;t." scout mowfment yesicrdtiy. and Lady Baden-Powell are with Mrs J. Cracroft Wilson. Caslimere.