MANY VISITORS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 304, 21 November 1934, Page 9

MANY VISITORS

NOTABLE PERSONALITIES. ARRIVALS ON RANGITANE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 20. An exceptionally large number of notable visitors, including several ■members of the English nobility, prominent officers of the Army and Navy, and a noted Jesuit priest, will arrive at Wellington by the Rangitane from London to morrow.

ltev. Father C. C. Martindale, S.J., a distinguished Jesuit priest and. author, who visited New Zealand in 1928, is returning on another brief visit. Father Martindale attended the recent Eucharistic Congress at Buenos Aires and is now on his way to the National Congress at Melbourne. Many New Zealanders who served in the Boer and European AVars will be interested in the visit of Vice-Admiral George McOran Campbell, R.N., retired, who is accompanied by his wife, who was formerly Miss Maud Cicely Higginson, a daughter of the late Mill. Pasley Higginson, M.1.C.E., of AVellington.

Another visitor known to ex-service-men is Lieutenant-General Sir AV.illiam Marshall, G.C.M.G., who is accompanied by Lady Marshall. Sir Charles and Lady Campbell and their only daughter, Miss Mary Campbell, who formerly lived in North Canterbury, are returning to visit relatives after some vears in England. Mr J. V. Wilson, a member of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, Geneva, and Mrs AVilson, are to visit Mr AVilson’s mother, Mrs J. H. AVilson, of Christchurch. A distinguished member of the Indian Army, who retired in 1921, who is also arriving, is Brigadier-General Robert M. Betliam.

Another passenger, the Dowager Lady Swaythling, is the widow of the second Baron Swaythling, head of the banking firm of Samuel Montagu and Son.

Canterbury residents will be interested in the visit of Lady Marchamley and her daughter, Hon. Alice AVhiteiey. Lady Marchamley, who married in 1911, is a daughter of Mr and Mrs T. S. Johnstone, of Riccarton, and a sister of Mi's Herbert Acton Adams, of Tipapa, North Canterbury. Other passengers are: —Monsieur A. Nihotte (Belgian Consul for New Zealand) and Madame Nihotte, Hon. Arthur Howard, Hon. Miles G. AV. Pollimore, Lieut.-Colonel R. Bagnall, Colonel and Mrs A. E. Steward, Mr and Mrs C. AV. Clifford, Colonel and Mrs F. G. Newton, Colonel and Mrs H. P. Strong, Colonel Campbell Browning, Mr and Mrs G. Shirtcliffe, Mrs E. C. Riddiford, Captain AV. H. Thompson, and Dr. Ada McLaren.