GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 15

GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

FIRST WAIPUKURAU VISIT. EMPIRE PROBLEMS SPEECH. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIPUKURAU, Friday. The Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, and the Lady Bledisloe paid their iirst visit to Waipukurau to-day, arriving by the afternoon express. They were formally welcomed by the deputyMayor, Mr. Lan Mackie, and were presented with an address in the presence of representatives of the Central Hawke's Bay local bodies, the Chamber of Commerce and a large assemblage of residents and settlers. In the course of an address covering Dominion and Empire economic problems, Lord Bledisloe referred to the need for maintaining the high quality of the Dominion's exports, for which there would always be a demand. lie briefly traversed the trend of the Ottawa Conference, and referred to the call for reciprocal trading to strengthen the purchasing ability of the British consumers. He said that if whey butter were placed on tile Home market it should not be sold as best New Zealand or blended with best.

His Excellency said he wished to impress the people with the gospel of national harmony as the surest road to prosperity, happiness and security. All sections of the community should think of the country first and themselves secondly —a course which would be to their own advantage eventually. The Vice-Regal party later left for Napier.