SUNDAY GOLF TOURNEY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19503, 9 December 1937, Page 10

SUNDAY GOLF TOURNEY

CRITICISM OF GOVERNOR RETURNED MEN'S RETORT "His Excellency wishes me to tell you that he much appreciates your ietter, and that he thoroughly enjoyed the tournament." This sentence, in a brief letter Iron. Mr. D. E. Fouhy, official secretary to the Governor-General, Lord Galway, caused satisfaction among members at a meeting of the executive of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers' Association.

The letter referred to by Mr. Fouhy was one from the executive of the association, "deprecating the action of the North Canterbury Methodist Synod in criticising unjustly the action of His Excellency in attending a recent golf tournament held under the auspices of the association," and expressing appreciation of His Excellency's graciousness in attending the tournament. This fixture, on the Avondaic course, was held on a Sunday.

The president, Mr. W. E. Leadley, after the reply had been read, said he was not present at the last meeting of the executive, but a full report had appeared in the Wellington newspapers and he believed those of Auckland. He wished to associate himself wholeheartedly with the resolutions passed by the executive. "The wording of the resolutions was excellent, and they gave the retort courteous to some narrow-minded criticism which should never have been made in public," said Mr. Leadley.