MRS NASH IN LONDON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23080, 5 January 1937, Page 11

MRS NASH IN LONDON

INTERESTING ENGAGEMENTS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS MR BALDWIN'S STATEMENT . (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, Dec. 12. Since the arrival of the New Zealand delegation in London, Mrs Nash, wife of the Minister of Finance and Minister of Marketing, has had the opportunity at receptions given in her honour of meeting many prominent Eng'ish people and New Zealanders resident here. The New Zealand Women's Association tendered a reception to Mrs Nash and to Mrs Jordan, wife of the New Zealand High Commissioner, at Grosvenor House. Previously they were guests at luncheon of Miss Stella Murray, the well-known New Zealand contralto. Mrs Nash and the Minister of Finance were the guests of the English and Scottish Wholesale Society at a luncheon on November 24, while in the afternoon Mrs T. A. Duncan, wife of the chairman of the New Zealand Meat Board, entertained Mrs Nash, Mrs Jordan, and the other ladies of the party —Mrs T. R. Aickin. Mrs J. P. D. Johnson, Mrs W. I. Sutch, and Miss N. T. F. Armitage—to tea at the Carlton Hotel.

A private luncheon was given to Mrs Nash and the Minister by Sir Howard d'Egville (secretary of the Empire Parliamentary Association), and Lady d'Egville. at the Houses of Parliament on November 26, and on November 30 Mr and Mrs Nasli were entertained at luncheon by the Commissioner of Works, Viscount Stanhope, and Lady Stanhope. On December 8 Mr and Mrs Nash had tea with Lady Wardlaw-Milne, wife of Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, M.P. for the Kidderminster Division of Worcestershire, and later they dined with • Major-general B. C. Freyberg. V.C.. and Mrs Freyberg. at No. 7 Clarendon place, Hyde Park. Kidderminster is Mr Nash's birthplace. The following evening Mr and Mrs Nash were the guests of the Royal Empire Society at a dinner in the society's new building in Northumberland avenue. The Minister delivered an address on New Zealand. Viscount Bledisloe was in the chair.

Mr and Mrs Nash were both present at the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon, when the Premier, the Ri. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, made his momentous statement regarding King Edward VIII's decision to abdicate.