TO VISIT DOMINION

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19763, 19 December 1935, Page 3

TO VISIT DOMINION

ENGLISH TOURISTS. SOME NOTABLE PEOPLE. (From a Correspondent.) LONDON, November 16. Advertising Is very necessary in order to make known the -scenic and sports attractions of New Zealand, hut personal advice, it will be found, is largely responsible for the increasing number of visitors to the Dominion. Each satisfied tourist, on his return to the Home Country, inspires his friends to “go and do likewise." An examination of the family connections of prominent English people for which the tourist branch of the High Commissioner’s Office has mapped out itineraries, would reveal in a number of cases that some member of the family or a relative or friend had lately toured the Dominion. Main Object Fishing. For instance, Colonel the Hon. George Keppel, M.V.0., left this week by tho Rangitane, his main object being fishing. Colonel Keppel is the third son of the seventh Earl of Albemarle, and a brother-in-law of Sir Archibald Edmondstone, who is at present in New Zealand. Ria, Lady Sysonby, left this week by the Rangitane and is due to arrive in Wellington on December 18. Lady Sysonby is the widow of the late Treasurer to the King. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, who died only recently, obtained his peerage two months before his death. The present Lord Sysonby has recently married.

Lord Woodbridge and his daughter, the Hon. Vera Churchman, have also booked their passages by the Rangitiki, arriving at Wellington on February 15. Lord Woodbridge was formerly vice-chairman of the British American Tobacco Company, and has a place near Ipswich, of which town he is High Steward. He represented the Woodbridge Division of Suffolk in Parliament from 1920 to 1929. He is the first baron to hold the title. La clu Quesa de Dato (or the Duchess de Dato, of Spain) is another visitor. She is to arrive at Auckland by the Orama on December 26. Interested in Agriculture. Lord and Lady Cranworth are sailing by the Rangitiki, due to arrive on February 15. They will also have in their party their younger daughter, the Hon. Judith Gurdon, and Miss Elizabeth Barbour. Lord Cranworth, whose home is in Suffolk, is interested in agriculture, and is a member of the Milk Marketing Board. Others who have booked their passages are Sir Mark Dalrymple, Lady Margaret Blake, Lieutenant- Colonel Audain, Lady Pinney, Colonel and Mrs T. W. Simpson, Lieutenant-Colonel Sanders, Mr and Mrs F. E. Moss (of Oxford), and Mr Charles Salter (a well-known London business man). 'Major Mellcs and Baroness Burton are on their way by Suez. Baroness Burton, nee Bass, was the daughter of Hie first Baron, whom she succeeded in 1909. By her first marriage, in .189-i, witli the late Mr J. E. D. Baillie, M.V.0., she had two sons. In 1932 she married Major W. E. Mellcs.