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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22510, 19 September 1938, Page 8

Personal Items

The Minister for Railways (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) arrived at Napier on Saturday, having travelled by a new rail-car on a tnar run from Wellington. Mr Sullivan attended the crowning ceremony of the Hawke’s Bay Labour queen carnival at Napier on Saturday evening, and yesterday he visited the Esk Valley areas devastated by the autumn floods. Mr SUllivan said he was very distressed by the terrible scenes of ruin in a rich and beautiful countryside. . He returned to Wellington later in the day.—Press Association. The Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes arrived from the north by the steamer express on Saturday morning.

The Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.G., was a passenger from the north by the steamer express on Saturday morning. The Hon. Sir James Allen, M.L.C., arrived from the north by the steamer express on Saturday morning.

Messrs A. H. Nordmeyer, D. McDougall, C. Morgan Williams, H. E, Herring, P. Neilson, T. H McCombs, W. J. Lyon, and J. W. Munro, members of Parliament, were passengers from the north by the steamer express on Saturday morning. Messrs J. O’Brien, H. S. S. Kyle, C. Carr, W. M. C. Denham, members of Parliament, were passengers from the north by the steamer express yesterday morning. The Hons. M. Connelly, E. F. O’Flynn, J. K. Archer, W. Hayward, J. A. McCullough, T. F. Doyle, T. F. O’Byrne, and G. R. Hunter, members of the Legislative Council, arrived from the north by the steamer express on Saturday morning.

Mr Philip B. Levy left for Dunedin during the week-end.

Mr M. E. Lyons returned from the north by the steamer express on Saturday morning. Mr J. S. Barnett returned to Christchurch by the steamer express bn Saturday morning. The Rev. J. Kilgour arrived from the north by the steamer express on Saturday morning. Mr C E. T. Hill, who has been a member of the Loyal : City.' of Christchurch Lodge. M.U.1.0.0.F., for 70 years, was presented with a cheque at a meeting of the lodge. Mr Hill. wh6 is nearly 89 years of age. omy recently relinquished the position of lodge auditor, which he occupied for 18 years.

With deep regret the management committee of the Canterbury. Lawn Tennis Association records in' the annual report the death of Mr J. H. Kirk, patron of the association. During his long connexion with the game and with the association, Mr Kirk has rendered services excelled by few in the history of New Zealand tennis. Throughout the association’s existence he has given it his practical support in numerous ways and through his death the association has lost a very real friend,” the report states.