SIR CHARLES AND LADY FERGUSSON

Evening Star, Issue 18810, 8 December 1924, Page 8

SIR CHARLES AND LADY FERGUSSON

HOUSEHOLD STAFF ARRIVE. [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, December 8, Fifteen members of the household stuff of Sir Charles Fcrgusson arrived by the Ruapehu, and proceed to Wellington this evening to have Government House ready for the arrival of Sir Charles and Lady Fcrgusson by the Ruahine on Saturday. Although a stranger to New Zealand, , the house steward (Mr David Adams) spent several years iu Australia twenty--1 five years ago. He held a similar posi- , tion ‘in the household of Lord Beauchamp, the then Governor of New South Wales. From 1903 to 1910 Mr Adams was in tho service of Earl Dudley, at that time Go-vernor-General of Australia. Ho returned to the Commonwealth four years ago as house steward in the establishment of Sir Archibald Weigall, Governor _of South Australia. His present appointment is therefore his fourth in that capacity. With Mr Adams are several male members of the household staff, including three chauffeurs. Tho domestic staff, comprising eight maids, travelled under tho supervision of Lady Alice Fcrgusson’s housekeeper, Mrs Janet M'Graw, who is a Scotswoman. So are seven of the eight maids.