BIG TOURING PARTY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21909, 9 October 1936, Page 15

BIG TOURING PARTY

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CONGRESS

DELEGATES ARRIVE IN

CHRISTCHURCH

The overseas delegates to the congress of the Federated Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire arrived in Christchurch yesterday morning from Wellington. During the morning they were welcomed by the Canterbury chamber at a morning tea at Ballantynes. and later they were extended a civic reception by mo Mayor, Mr J. W. Beanland, at the City Council chambers. In the evening they attended the Regent Theatre. In the afternoon many attended a garden party at the home of Mr Norton Francis, president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand, and Mr V. E. Hamilton, president of the Canterbury chamber, and Mrs Hamilton were “at home to the visitors early in the evening. Others went for motor drives, ' and some played golf on the Christchurch club s course at Shirley. , This morning inspections will be made of several factories, under the guidance of the Canterbury Manufacturers” Association, and there will also be golf at Shirley. A party will visit the homestead of Mr J. H. Grigg, “Longbeach.” in the Ashburton district, and others will go to Akaroa by motor. In the afternoon the whole party will visit “Otahuna,” the home of the Hon. Sir E. Heaton Rhodes, at Tai Tapu. The visiting men will be entertained at a smoke concert at the Caledonian Hal! in the evening, and the ladies will be the guests of the Christchurch Women’s Club. The party was so numerous that it was divided, and the visitors are staying at Warner’s Hotel, United Service Hotel, and Clarendon Hotel. The list of the party is:—Lord Elibank (president of the congress), Sir Thomas Wilford, Mr T. S. Smith (Walsall, Staffordshire), Mr J. E. Emlyn-Jones and Miss Inez Emlyn-Jones (Cardiff), Mr' A. Sanders (Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia), Mr F. W. Parsons (Sutton. Surrey), Mr F. Prymm (Plymouth, Devon), Sir Lewis Lougher (Cardiff), Mr H. E. Roimd (Tasmania), Mr J. Arthur Aiton and Miss W. Tollenaaf (Derbyshire), Mr A. O. Heaney (secretary to the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand), Mr J. Maitland Paxton (Sydney), Sir Albert Atkey and Lady Atkey (Nottingham), Mr S. H. Taylor (Associated Chambers of Commerce of India), Sir Montagu® Burton and Lady Burton (Leeds), Mr C. Granville Gibson, M.P., Mrs Gibson, and Miss Margaret Gibson (Leeds), Mr E. S. Leatherby and Mrs Leatherby (Plymouth), Mr Bernard Sugden and Mrs Sugden (Spen Valley, England), Mr Hedley Miller (congress secretary, London) and Mrs Miller, Mr and Mrs A. L, Woodhead, the Misses Peggy and Betty Woodhead (Huddersfield), Mr and Mrs J. A. Stembridge (Leeds), Mr and Mrs F. W. Cook (Dudley, England), the Hon. J.. W. Downie, C.M.G., and Mrs Downie (Salisbury, Rhodesia). Mr and Mrs W. Shires (Huddersfield), Mr R. L. Barclay, C.8.E., Mrs Barclay, and Miss Barclay (London). Mr and Mrs S. W, Broadhead (Bradford), Mr T H. Mordey (Cardiff), Mr C. T. Craig (London), Mr and Mrs L. A. Cuff (Launceston, Tasmania), Mr G. H. Townsend (Montreal), Mr and Mrs J. T. Cook (Reading, England), Professor T. Hytton (Sydney), Mr T. H. Heffer (Melbourne), Mr W. B. Darker and Miss Darker (Brisbane), Mr W. Mansfield, Mrs Mansfield, and Miss H. J. Wadman (London), Mr F. H. Corke (Sydney), Mr George Groom (Innisfail, Queensland), Mr and Mrs Alfred Wigglesworth and Miss Marjorie Anderson (London), Mr and Mrs William Birks (Montreal)/ Mr Percy Ainley (Huddersfield), Mr and Mrs T. B. Hooper (Brisbane), Mr and Mrs H. F. Smith (Launceston), Mr and Mrs L. H. Bentall (London), Mr and Mrs Nesbitt Wood (Derby), Mr R. M. Clark (Sydney). Mr and Mrs T. F. Matthews, Miss Harris, and Miss Adams (Toronto) arrived in Christchurch last evening, having crossed from Wellington to Picton and motored down the coast

On Saturday the tourists will leave Christchurch in two parties. One will visit the Franz Josef and Fox glaciers, returning to Christchurch in the evening. They Will spend the next night at Timaru, and will then go on to Dunedin. The other party will go direct to the Hermitage, Mount Cook, and from there to Queenstown and Dunedin. After Dunedin one section