VICEREGAL TOUR.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18569, 19 December 1925, Page 16

VICEREGAL TOUR.

CIVIC RECEPTION AT GREYMOUTH. (rRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGEAU.) GREYMOTJTH, December 18. The Governor-General paid an official visit to Greymouth to-day. After a formal welcome by a representative deputation in the morning aboard the Tutanekai, the Vice-Regal party motorod to James State Colliery, into which the party proceeded a distance of a mile. Lady Ferguson fired two shots, the Governor-General two, and their son one shot. The party then motored to Punakaiki, visiting the celebrated blowholes. In the evening, a large crowd gathered at the civic welcome in the Town. Hall. • ■ ■ Sir Charles Fergusson, after referring to the promising industrial prospects of the coast, remarked upon its resemblance to his home in Ayrshire. Ho was familiar with mining communities and the day brought him back as it were to the Old Country. H© paid a tribute to the loyalty of West Coasters and New Zealanders generally to the Empire, and also to the pioneers. The Empire was the greatest factor for civilisation in the world and the question was: What we were going to do. with it when foreign nations threatened our supremacy. Tho dnty of every07ie wa-3 to do his best. He believed all had trusted the Locarno Pact to bring a new era of peace. He thanked the community for its cordial welcome. To-fnorrow tho Vice-Regal party visit Hokitika. s