SUNDAY GOLF

Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 December 1937, Page 6

SUNDAY GOLF

ENJOYED BY GOVERNOR. CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. “His Excellency Avishes me to tell you that lie much appreciates your letter, and that he thoroughly enjoyed the tournament.” This sentence in a brief letter from Mr. D. E. Fouhy, official secretary to the Governor-Gen-eral, Lord Galway, caused satisfaction among members at a meeting of the executive of the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association last eA r ening. 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 h'is Excellency in attending a recent golf tournament held under the auspices of the association,” and expressing . appreciation of his Excellency’s graeiousness in attending the tournament. This fixture, on the Avondale 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 1 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 Tetort. courteous to some narrow-minded, criticism which should never have been made in public,” said Mr. Leadley. —(P.A.)