SIR THOMAS WILFORD

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21982, 13 December 1934, Page 6

SIR THOMAS WILFORD

PUBLIC LIFE CONCLUDED COMING VISIT TO DOMINION [from our own correspondent] LONDON. Nov. (S Sir Thomas and Lady Wilford are going to New Zealand for a short visit of five weeks. They have booked their passages by the Akaroa, leaving Southampton on November 30, and on their way back, in March, they hope to meet at Panama their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward PenroseFitzGerald. The former will be coming to England from Peru on leave then. At present the Hon. Mrs. R. Anthony Eden is visiting Mrs. Penrose-Fitz-Gerald at Lima. On arrival in the Dominion, Sir Thomas will spend some time with, his mother, in the North Island, and Lady Wilford will visit her sisters in Dunedin. A considerable portion of Sir Thomas' brief stay in the Dominion' will be devoted to business. Sir Thomas says he has completely finished bis public life. He is enjoying his experiences as a business man and as a private individual, and his time is thus very happily and pleasantly engaged: Sir Thomas and Lady wilford have beea invited to, the Royal Redding in Westminster Abbey. As deputy-chairman of the Federated Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, of which Lord Elibank is president, and Sir John Sandeman Allen chairman, Sir Thomas has the opportunity of keeping in touch with leading business men from all parts of the Empire.