Personal Items

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 21 September 1938, Page 10

Personal Items

The Minister for Labour (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong) arrived from Wellington by the steamer express yesterday morning and was engaged on departmental business in the city during the day. He addressed a public meeting last -night and will speak in the Beckenham School this evening, returning -to Wellington to-morrow.

The Minister for Mines (the Hon. P. C. Webb) arrived in Christchurch from the North Island yesterday morning and left later for the West Coast.

Messrs E. J. Howard, C. H. Chapman, W. A. Bodkin and T. D. Burnett, members of Parliament, were among the passengers from the north by yesterday morning's steamer express. The Hon. J. Goodall, M.L.C., was an arrival from Wellington by the inter-island steamer yesterday morning.

Colqnel J. W. Clarke was a passenger from the north yesterday morning.

At a meeting of-the boaYd of directors of the Christchurch Young Men's Christian Association last evening a resolution of sympathy with the relatives of Archbishop Julius was passed. Mr H. G. Livingstone left for Wellington by the steamer express last evening. Messrs' F. W.' Johnston, A. E. Ansell, and J. L. Passmore left for Wellington by the steamer express last evening.

Mr Frank Preece was elected a life member of the Harewood Cricket Club at the annual meeting of the club.

Mr H. S. Bowden, who has been a member of the Christchurch staff of the National Insurance Company of New Zealand, Ltd., for the last 10 years, has been appointed manager of the company's Wanganui branch. He will leave Christchurch soon to take up, his new duties on October 1.

Keen regret at the death of Mr Herbert Pearce, trustee of the estate of Mr W. H. Travis, was expressed in the report of the Canterbury, Marlborough, Nelson, and Westland division of the British Empire Cancer Campaign Society yesterday afternoon It had been through Mr Pearce's genero?itv. said the report, that the society had in 1933 been able to appoint the Travis radiological physicist.