AT THE KING'S WISH.
VICE-REGAL ISLAND VISIT. LORD BLEDISLOE EXPLAINS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Reference to the forthcoming visit to the Pacific Islands of himself and the Lady Bledisloe on H.M.s. Diomede was made by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, at the official opening this evening of the new headquarters of the Wellington branch of the St. John Ambulance Association. Lord Bledisloe said it was His Majesty's expressed desire that he shouldmake the visit soon after coming to New Zealand, but the exigencies of public affairs within the Dominion and the stringency of national finance had hitherto rendered such a visit impracticable. But for an arrangement which, at his suggestion, had been arrived at with the Naval Department, enabling them to travel on board the cruiser in the course of her annual Pacific cruise, thus lifting the entire expense from the public purse, they would have been unable during His Excellency's period of office to visit the oceanic portion of his administrative area. These were the sole reasons for visiting the Islands in the battleship.
Lord Bledisloe added he proposed to appoint the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, as his deputy in his absence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 14
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194AT THE KING'S WISH. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 14
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