GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 65, 18 March 1930, Page 8

GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

LANDS TO-MORROW MORNINQ I KEEN AGRICULTURIST. |1 AUTHORITY ON GRASSLANDS. fj As New Zealand must always depend *1 on her primary industries, it is ex , tremely fortunate for her that the new j Governor-General is so intensely inter, I ested in agriculture and is such a staunch supporter of the co-operative principle—, the principle upon which the P amazingly prosperous dairying industry If has been built up. <> || His Excellency and Lady Bysffisloe will P arrive at Wellington this evening, an j 111 the present arrangement is that 0 ' they if will land to-morrow morning at tea o'clock. The Harbour Board's welcome f will be extended in the Pipitea wharf I shed, and their Excellencies will then B drive to the Town Hall, where the p Mayor will welcome them to the city § and to New Zealand. The swearing I ceremony will take place in front of°tha I Parliament Buildings, at three o'clock. p Lord Bledisloe's family name is Bath. t> urst, and for more than 200 years, the f family has had its seat at Lydney Park fe Gloucestershire. He was born in 1867.' | and was educated at Eton and Oxford' § but all his life he has been vitally intoN Si ested in the land, and part of his school- It ing included a course at the Royal Agri- S§ cultural College, Cirencester. In spite 0 ? the fact that he was called to the Bar in 1894, and practised for 16 years, lw H never slackened his interest in land and I fanners, and to-day there is no higher If authority in England as far as grass. If lands and their treatment are concerned, I It is this knowledge of grazing lands ll that should be of inestimable benefit t) f - New Zealand. ' fc His Excellency is a large landowner, p and one farm of 2500 acres is regarded as || a model of what an up-to-date, modern' ®| farm should be. On the farm are to he B found all the latest machinery and p methods for carrying on not only gene- if ral farming, but dairying, cattle breed- I' ing and pig raising. When Lord Bledisloe retired from the ■ practice of the law in 1910, lie entered %. the House of Commons, and retained Ms M seat until he was raised to the peerage, I , He did important work in the Food Min- rV istry during the Great War. For his ser. i" vices he was made a K.B.E. in 1917, and -f - made a peer in the following year. i ; : A Busy Man. S|t But his greatest work has been done, ;j and is still being done, in an endeavour If to improve agriculture in the .Old Country. Great strides have been made as H the result of research work that has been carried out, and in the fostering of . fe this work Lord Bledisloe's name stands, p in the very front rank. He has held ; office in all the important agricultural fj§ societies and associations in Great Brit- |§ ain, and in 1924 his work was recognised j by his appointment as Parliamentary I? Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture, Ki Even when his untiring labours for the jp betterment of the farming industry of y) the country impaired his health and | compelled his doctors to order him to || take a rest, he filled in the time by undertaking a special -mission to the | Argentine to inquire into the problem of p foot and mouth disease. •••■'..• | It will be remembered that when his | Excellency received the appointment as | successor to Sir Charles Fergusson lie I had booked his. passage to the Dominion |. as leader of the party of Empire far- | mers which has been touring the coun- | try. Now he will be able to spend five f| years with us instead of perhaps as | many, weeks. . His Excellency has been twice married. | His first wife was a daughter of the first , i ||| Baron Ludlow. There are two sons and a daughter. Left a widower in 1926, i | Lord Bledisloe married again in April, || 1928, his wife being the Hon. Mrs. Elaine J, Cooper-Smith, daughter of the first j I Baron Glentawe, better known as Sir i- j John Jenkins, M.P. Lady Bledisloe is 1 keenly interested in philanthropic work. M " . .iM