ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23353, 19 November 1937, Page 18

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

SYDNEY’S OFFICIAL GUESTS NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES (From Our Own Correspondent) SYDNEY, Nov. 11. The one hundred and fiftieth Anniversary Committee has released the complete list of guests officially invited to attend the celebrations next year. The Governor-Generals of Australia and New Zealand, and their wives, head the list of official guests. Then come the Governors of the States, and their wives, the Prime Minister (Mr Lyons) and Mrs Lyons, the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr Savage), all State Premiers and their wives.

The best known of the other guests are Lord Nuffield, English motorcar manufacturer, and Zane Grey, American author and big-game angler. Other guests include: Sir Josiah Stamp, British economist; Dame Maria Ogilvie-Gordon, Sir Howard d’Egville, secretary of the United Kingdom branch of the British Parliamentary Association; Sir Muhammed Zafrullah Khan, member for Railways and Commerce in the Indian Viceroy’s Council, Lieut.colonel A. R. G. Gordon, M.P., of Northern Ireland, and Mrs Gordon. From Ceylon will come Mr Swrdbandaranaike, accompanied by Mr E. W. Kannangara, honorary secretary of the Ceylon branch of the Parliamentary Association, and Mrs Kannangara. South Africa will send Mr C. P. Robinson, M.P., and his wife.

Guests of the City Council for a week will be the Lord Mayors and Lady Mayoresses of all capital cities in Australia. For the World Radio Congress will come the Marchesa Marconi, widow of the inventor, and Mr David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America, who will probably be accompanied by Giulio Marconi. Marconi’s son. The British Broadcasting Corporation will be represented by Sir Noe] Ashbridge, chief engineer. Professor van der Pol, of Poland, will be an official visitor'.

Sir Andrew Russell, commander of the New Zealand forces in the war, and Lady Russell, and William Perry, M.L.C., president of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association, have been invited. Besides world-famous athletes for the Empire Games will be Sir James Leigh-Wood, chairman, and Mr Evan Hunter, secretary of the British Empire Games Federation. Field-marshal Lord Milne and General lan Hamilton have been invited, but it is not certain if they can come.

There are many important visitors to such things as the British Imoerial Relations Conference, the British Empire Producers’ Conference, and the British Parliamentary Association Conference.