SIR A. J. GODLEY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1934, Page 9

SIR A. J. GODLEY

VISIT TO DOMINION

STAY OF OVER TWO MONTHS

(From "Tho Post's" Representative.) LONDON, July 26.

Lieut.-General Sir A. J. Godley, G.C.8., and Lady Godley will leave for New Zealand by the Eangitiki on September 20, arriving in Auckland on October 24. Their stay on this occasion will be only for two days, as they are going on to Sydney by the Marama, en route for tho Centenary Celebrations. A month or six weeks will be spent in Australia, where the travellers have many friends to see. Primarily, of course, General Godley is going out to represent the Officers' Association at the biennial conference of the British Empire Service League. Ho helped the late Earl Haig to start this association, and he will be present at Melbourne at tho request of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe, the grand president of the British Empire Service League.

When all engagements in Australia are completed, Sir Alexander and Lady Godley will return to New Zealand, arriving there about Christmas and staying there till March 15. They are looking forward immensely to revisiting many of their old haunts in the Dominion and seeing many of their old friends. Sir Alexander especially desires to meet many of his old comrades of the. N.Z.E.F. He and his wif s have such happy recollections of the years 1910-1914 when they were in New Zealand, that they are very glad that the opportunity has come for- them to go out again. Friends will all be pleased to hear that Lady Godley has made a satisfactory recovery from' the effects of her serious fall a few years ago, at Malta, and she can walk more now than for some while past, but she is very lame. Just now she is at Bagnoles de l'Orne, in France, taking a cure.

Sir Alexander hoped to be accompanied, by his cousin, Miss Margaret Godley, B.A. (Oxon), House Tutor of Citizenship House, at Westonbirt School, Tetbury, Gloucester, but she cannot go until later. She will leave by the Rotorua on December 6, meet Sir Alexander and Lady Godley in New Zealand, and remain there until March 5. Miss Godley is a great-granddaugh-ter of John Robert Godley, and a firs£ cousin, once removed, of Sir A. J. Godley. Her father, John Cornwallis Godley, C.5.1., was Director-General of Public Education in the Punjab, and ■in his youth he was head boy of Marlborough College, and one of the most brilliant men of his time at Oxford—a contemporary and friend of Lord Curzon. Miss Godley will return to England via Vancouver and Canada, visiting Suva en route, where her brother, Captain Maurice Godley, is A.D.C. to thejTiOvernor.

On March 15, Sir Alexander and Lady Godley will leave Now Zealand by the Rangitiki, due in London on April 17.