PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 44, 21 February 1930, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

Mr. H. W. Lawrence, who is leaving shortly on a trip to Europe, was yesterday granted nine months'leave of absence by the Hutt Valley Eleetrie Power Board.

Tho Director of Air Services (WingCommander S. Grant-Dalton) is a passenger by the Tamahiuo to-day to attend the Dominion Conference of Aero Clubs at Blenheim.

Mr. J. T. Grose, general manager of tho National Bank of, New-Zealand, is in the South Island. He will return to Wellington on Tuesday.

Dr. G. Craig, C.M.G., Comptroller of Customs, returned to Wellington this afternoon from a visit to Auckland, Gisbornc, and Napier on Departmental business. ;

High tribute to the valuable services given to the Methodist Church by the late Mr. Nicholas Turner, of , Christchurch, was paid last night . by the president of ,the Methodist Conference (tho Eov. A. N. Seotter, 8.A.), and tho Conference passed in silenco a, resolution of sympathy arid condolence with his relatives. Mr. Turner was for some years in charge of the High street Mission, Christehurch, and when the Chapman-Alexander Mission left New Zealand, he went Homo with Dr. Chapman. as his secretary. He afterwards returned to New Zealand and took up a business career.

At the first * meeting of the new board of directors of the United Press Association, held at Timaru yesterday afternoon, Mr. A. G. Henderson, who has been a member of the board for the past three years as the Christehurch representative, resigned his seat. The board elected Mr. A. M. Burns, general manager of' the "Christehurch Press" Co., Ltd., to fill the vacancy. Mr. Burns was for seventeen years on the staff of the Press Association before he joined the staff of tho "Press" as subeditor. During the whole of that time he represented tho Press Association in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. In the Parliamentary recess he. acted as tho association's agent at the cable station at Cable Bay, near Nelson, the agency having been started by him. Mr. Edward Palgrave Davy, son of the Eev. and Mrs. E. Palgrave Davy, of Auckland, has received an appointment as pilot officer in the Royal Air Force, and is proceeding to Egypt this week for training in the flying school at Abu Sucir. Mr. Davy, who was born in Simla, North India, came to New Zealand with his parents in 1913, and was educated at King's College. He was a member of the. staff of the Auckland Savings Bank for five years, and left the Dominion for England last- year. '■" ■ . : :