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Evening Star, Issue 21570, 16 November 1933, Page 11

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Mr Richard Hudson travelled by train to Christchurch to-day. Mr A. H. Allen lefjb for Wellington this morning to attend u meeting of the executive of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Mr E. H. Lough was a passenger lor Christchurch by the 11.65 train to-day. Mr D. S. Mackenzie came from Gor© by rail this morning. Four Little Sisters of the Poor were seen off on the station this morning, being bound for Sydney to stay there. Mr Colin Abernethy, of the Audit Department, is transferred from Dunedin to Hamilton, and left by train this morning. Mr J Biusted, loco, engineer for th© Christchurch district, returned there today after visiting Dunedin. Mr D. M. Madden has been elected chairman of the New Zealand Breweries Ltd. in succession to Sir Alfred Bankart. An Ashburton Press Association telegram records the death of Mr George William Leadley, aged seventy-eight, » pioneer agriculturist, the first Canterbury member of the Farmers’ Union, and founder of the local branch of the union, which was the first in the South Island. He was dominion president of the union, a former, member of the County Council, a great temperance worker, and a Methodist lay reader for fifty-eight years. The deceased was born in Yorkshire, and arrived in New Zealand in 1863. Sunshine and roses were the distinguishing marks at the wedding in St.Paul’s Pro-cathedral in Wellington yesterday (says a Press Association telegram) of Ailsa May, daughter of Mr and Mrs Noel Nelson, and Lieutenant Rodney Thomson. R.N., A.D.C., son of Brigadier-general N. A. Thomson, C.M.G., D. 5.0., and Mrs Thomson, Kokstad, South Africa. The GovernorGeneral (Lord Bledisloe) and Lady Bledisloe were present. Full naval uniform was worn by the bridegroom and the officers of H.M.S. Dunedin and H.M.S. Diomede. The church w>as full to overflowing, and long before the timo for the arrival of the bridal party th© vicinity was thronged with onlookers. The bride and bridegroom left the church under the crossed _ swords of naval officers, reaching their carriage through a dense crowd of people. Some hundreds attended the reception at the St. George Hotel, Latest arrivals at the Grand Hotel are Miss C. P. Fordyce (Brisbane), Mr and Mrs Harvey Turner, -Mr and Mrs E. W. Turner, Mr P. Davidson (Auckland), Messrs W. L. Moore, K. Mitchell A. Kelly, and J. M'Donald (Wellington), Mr and Mrs H. C. Robinson (Masterton), Mr and Mrs H. S. Tanner, Mr H. L. Anderson (Christchurch), Mr W. Baxter (Timaru), and Mrs J. G. Macdonald (Invercargill). ■ The president (Mr A. J. Gordon) of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers Association, vice-president '(Mr A, Thomas), and the secretary (Mr O. L.Ferens) this morning paid an official call on Sir Hubert Wilkins, who, now a member of the Ellsworth Antarctic* expedition, served with the Australian forces during the Great War. City Hotel guests: Mr A. G. Lana (Auckland), Mr W. Beasley (Wellington), Messrs L. Watson, B. E. Woodham, R. A. Ambridge (Christchurch), Mr and Mrs E. Newton (Invercargill),