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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22507, 15 September 1938, Page 10

Personal Items

The Rt Rev. F. A. Bennett, Bishop of Aotearoa ' arrived yesterday morning by the and is <he guest of Btshop West-Watson at Bishopscourt.

Sympathy with the relatives of Mr R. Nairn, who died recently, was expressed in a motion passed by the Christchurch Presbytery yesterday. Messrs M. E. Lyons and H. G Li v mgs tone, who gave evidence before the Select Committee on the Local Government (Amalgamation) Schemes Bill in Wellington on Tuesday, reto Christchurch by the steamer express yesterday morning. Mr F R Picot, Director of Internal Marketing arrived by the steamer express from the north yesterdaV morning. He spent the day in Ashburton. The death of Archbishop Julius was mentioned at a meeting of the Christchurch Presbytery yesterday, and a motion of sympathy with the Archbishop’s relatives was passed. Mr T. W. Burgess was elected last evening to fill a vacancy on the executive of the Canterbury School Committees’ Association. Mr D. I. Macdonald, secretary of the Employers’ Association of Canterbury, Westland and Marlborough, who will leave on Saturday to attend the International Labour Conference in London next month, was presented with a cheque by the president (Mr A. E. Kmcaid I at the annual meeting of the association last night. Mr Kincaid extended the good wishes of members to Mr Macdonald. Members of the 'ormer St. Marys (Merivale) Young Men’s Club met at dinner at the Mayfair Lounge on Tuesday evening to bid farewell to the ReV. M. Harcourt-Wybert who will leave soon for the north. Warm tributes were paid to the energy and enthusiasm that Mr Wybert had put into the club , and Pible class activities, to the founding of the spoits club and to the many other ways that he had helped the boys during the last four years. - .e was accorded the best wishes of members, who presented him with a pipe and an inscribed tobacco jar as a token of esteem and as a souvenir of the many enjoyable hours spent in club activities,