WELCOME TO CITY

Southland Times, Issue 23024, 19 October 1936, Page 8

WELCOME TO CITY

Afternoon’s Sport FISHING, DRIVING AND GOLF The party was met at the Invercargill railway station on Saturday afternoon by members of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce. There was no formal reception during the day and the visitors were offered several choices of entertainment for the afternoon. Some went driving, to Riverton, the more interesting to the tourists because of its approaching centenary, or to Bluff, where harbour works were inspected and a party taken to see the famous “most southern lamp post In the world.” Others were taken by some o. Southland’s keen anglers for an afternoon s fishing, and others were guests of members of golf clubs at an afternoon’s round on as southern a course as they were ever likely to play on, the visitors declared. Southland has only the privilege of entertaining a small number of the total overseas representation at the congress. After the business of the congress, held in Wellington, was completed the party broke up into several smaller parties, only one of which is visiting Southland. Mr J. A. Alton, who represented the Derby Chamber of Commerce at the congress, is the leader of the party, and yesterday he spoke to a reporter of the kindness which he said had been shown to the visitors on every day of the three weeks the party has been in the Dominion. “If kindness could kill, we would all be dead,” he said. On Saturday evening the party was entertained at a reception in Smith’s tea rooms, attended by many prominent Southland citizens. Members of Party. The members of the delegation all of whom were at the Grand Hotel were: Mr A. Sanders (Bulawayo), Mr F. W. Parsons (London), Mr W. B. Darker and Miss Darker (Queensland), Mr Percy Ainley (Huddersfield), Mr J. Arthur Aiton and Miss Zollenaar (Derby), Mr and Mrs W. Mansfield (Reigate. Surrey), Miss Wadman (Sussex), Mr and Mrs William Shires (Huddersfield), Mrs E. Koning (Suthport), Mr H. E. Round (Hobart), the Hon. J. W. Downie and Mrs Downie (Southern Rhodesia), Mr and Mrs Hedley Miller (London), Mr and Mrs Glanville Gibson and Miss Gibson (Leeds), Mr and Mrs J. T. Cook (Reading). Messrs T. Marshall and W. Swift, of the Wellington office of the Tourist Department, are accompanying the party.