OFFICIAL WELCOME.
Party to Reach Wellington on January 20.
RECEPTION ARRANGEMENTS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Arrangements are being completed for the official reception of the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, who will reach Wellington from Sydney, on his return from the Imperial Conference, on January 20. Mr. and Mrs. Forbes and the official party will leave Sydney for Wellington by the Ulimaroa on January 16. It has been arranged that an official party comprising Ministers of the Crown shall go off to the steamer in the Government vessel Janie Seddon. Mr. Forbes will receive an informal welcome on board. With his party he will come ashore in the Janie Seddon after the Ulimaroa has been inspected by the port health officer, and a welcome will be extended to him by the .chairman and members of the Wellington Harbour Board. It has not yet been decided whether a civic reception will be accorded Mr. Forbes, but the other arrangements have been more or less settled definitely. On his return to Wellington the Prime Minister will go into residence at Molesworth Street and preparations arfi being made for him to take over his apartments there.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 5, 7 January 1931, Page 7
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