"CAN OPEN ANYTHING"
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL,"
REMARK IN CHRISTCHURCH.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.*
CHRISTCHURCH. this day.
The assurance that he could open anything from a tin of sardines to Parliament was given by the GovernorGeneral when speaking at the opening show of the Canterbury Horticultural Society. Sir Heaton Rhodes, president of the society, declared that as far as he could remember no Governor-General had honoured them before by opening their show.
"Sir Heaton has disclosed the somewhat remarkable fact that no GovernorGeneral before to-day had opened your show," said his Excellency in reply.. "I cannot understand it because it appears to me to be the normal function of a Governor-General to open something. During the last eight days I have opened Parliament and also no fewer than three daffodil shows, culminating in the National Daffodil Society's show, so I am quite used to opening things from a sardine tin to Parliament."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 230, 29 September 1933, Page 8
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