PERSONAL ITEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 11

PERSONAL ITEMS

VICE REGAL. Then- Excellencies the Governor-. General and Lady Blcdisloc attended Divine Service at St^ Paul's Pro-1 Cathedral yesterday morning. This -morning the Governor-General] presided at a meeting of the Executive : Council held at Government Buildings.' Mr. E. Stanley, a merchant of Los j Angeles, California, was a passenger j 'by the Monowai, which arrived from Sydney to-day. Sir. Stanley, accompanied by his wife and son, has just completed an. extensive tour of'the Ea'sfc , and, after a brief stay in New Zealand, will return to Ameiica by the Aorangi j on 7th April. After visiting Japan and I China, they spent some time in India, j Mr. Stanley spates that they were very j much interested in the position of affairs in India, which he regarded as ona ' of the most difficult problems in the world to-day. He speaks in the highest terms of tho justice of British rule, and is firmly of opinion that it is in the ■ interest both of "the people of India and of. the world- at large, that Britain should continue \to guide the destinies of^the mixed races in that vast territory. After the formal business at the com- ' mittee meeting of the New Zealand Political Association held on Friday bad been transacted, Mr. C. D. Morpcth-'re-ferred to the early departure, on a business trip to Europe, of the president (Mr. Edwin Salmond), and on behalf of the committee asked him to accept a small memento in appreciation of tha valuable services rendered to the association, of which he had been president since" its inception. Mr. Morpcth. spoke of tho unselfish and busincss-liko manner,in which Mr. Salmond had filled ' the position; of tho cordsil relationship Tliich had always subsisted; of his unI'ailing courtesy to members of the committee; and to the great interest Mr.' Salmond had evinced in the welfare of the association. In wishing the presi-. dent bon voyage; Mr. Morpeth :'cx>.. pressed the unanimous, desire of th»! committee that on his'icturn to the. . Dominion Mr. Salmond would onco more take an active interest in tho counsels of the association.' Eulogistic reference "to the services rendered by tho president was .also mado "by other speakers. In'replying and--thanking the committee for th'cir much appreciated souvenir, Mr. Salmond 'alluded, to the assistance rendered, by tho committee'and secretary; to the gratifying increase in membership of the association; to the good work accomplished and already acknowledged throughout the Dominion, concluding by expressing a hope that at an early date fusion be- , tween the two anti-socialistic parties | advoc/atcd for some time past by fJio association would be an. accomplished s fact.