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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21420, 12 March 1935, Page 10

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The Minister for Public Works, the Hon. J. Bitchener, returned to Wellington last evening after spending the week-end at Waimate. The Mayor of Christchurch, Mr D. G. Sullivan. M.P., left for Wellington last evening. Members of Parliament who went north last evening included Messrs H. S. S. Kyle, E. J. Howard and H. Holland. At last night's annual meeting of the Sydenham Rugby Football Club reference was made to the deaths of Dr. P. F. McEvedy and Messrs J. McLean and G. H. Mason. Members stood in silence. Mr H. J. Otley, chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, who is a patient in a nursing home in Hastings, was last evening reported to be maintaining the improvement in his condition which he showed on Sunday. Brother R. E. Bigg, grand president, Grand Lodge of Canterbury, U.A.O. Druids, will leave this morning to attend the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Otago and Southland, to be held in Mosgiel this week. The work of Professor J. Shelley as producer for the Canterbury Repertory Theatre Society was praised at the annual meeting of the society last evening. The chairman, Dr. J. Hight, presented him with a cheque for £25 from the members in recognition of his efforts. At the conclusion of a sitting of the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, the magistrate, Mr E. D. Mosley, made reference to the transfer of Detective E. M. Thomas, who will leave shortly for Timaru. "If Detective Thomas's transfer means promotion, I wish to congratulate him," said Mr Mosley, "but otherwise, I should have thought for the sake of the force, the presence of such an efficient officer was necessary in Christchurch." Mr J. R. Evans was elected patron of the Christchurch Football Club at the annual meeting last evening. Members referred to Mr Evans's fine record with the club. Out of 68 annual meetings he had attended 63. He was now 84 years of age, and had recently expressed the opinion he was unable to pull his full weight as an executive officer. The club, however, had no intention of losing Mr Evans's valuable services. The death last year of Mr John Anderson, for 60 years an officebearer of the club, was referred to at the sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Christchurch Football Club last evening. The chairman (Mr Denys Hoare), moving that the club record its deep sense of loss, said that the names of Mr John Anderson and the Christchurch Football Club were closely linked in the history of the Province. "As a footballer and a gentleman Mr Anderson will be long remembered," concluded Mr Hoare.