OFFICIAL GUESTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 12

OFFICIAL GUESTS

SYDNEY. NEXT JEAR

STATE AND CITY

NEW ZEALAND INVITATIONS

(From "The Post's" Representative). SYDNEY, November 11.

The 150 th. anniversary committee has released the complete list of guests officially invited to attend the celebrations next year. The GovernorGenerals of Australia and New Zealand, and their wives, head the list of official guests. Then come the Governors of the States and their wives, the Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) and Mrs. Lyons, the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Savage), all State Premiers, and their wives. The best known of the other guests are Lord Nuffleld, English motor-car manufacturer, and Zane Grey, American author and big-game angler. Other guests include Sir Josiah Stamp, Dame Maria Ogilvie-Gordon, Sir Howard d'Egville (secretary of the United Kingdom branch of the British Parliamentary Association), Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan (member for Railways and Commerce in the Indian Viceroy's Council), Lieut-Colonel A. R. G. Gor-! don, M.P., of Northern Ireland, and Mrs. Gordon. From Ceylon will come Mr, Swrdbandaranaike, accompanied by Mr. E. W. Kannangara, honorary secretary of the Ceylon branch of the Parliamentary Association, and Mrs. Kannangara. South Africa will send Mr. C. P. Robinson, M.P., and his wife.

Guests of the City Council for a week will be the Lord Mayors and Lady Mayoresses of all capital cities in Australia. For the World Radio Congress will come the Marchesa Marconi, widow of the inventor, and Mr. David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, who will probably be accompanied by Giulio Marconi, Marconi's son. The British Broadcasting Corporation will be represented by Sir Noel Ashbridge, chief engineer. Professor van der Pol, ol Poland, will be an official visitor.

Sir Andrew Russell, commander of the New Zealand Forces in the war, and Lady Russell, and the Hon. W. Perry, president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association, have been iftvited.

Besides world-famous athletes for the Empire Games will be Sir James Leigh-Wood, chairman, and. Mr. Evan Hunter, secretary of the British Empire Games Federation.

Field-Marshal Lord Milne and General lan Hamilton have been invited, but it is not certain if they can come.

There are many important visitors to such things as the British Imperial Relations Conference, the British Empire Producers' Conference, and the British Parliamentary Association Conference. ' i ■