VISIT TO PACIFIC ISLANDS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22445, 5 July 1938, Page 10

VISIT TO PACIFIC ISLANDS

Governor-General’s Itinerary DEPARTURE FROM AUCKLAND TO-MORROW (THE PRESS Special Service.) AUCKLAND, July 4. The Governor-General (Viscount Galway) will leave Auckland on Wednesday by H.M.S. Leander to make his first visit to the South Pacific islands administered by New Zealand. He will be accompanied by Lady Galway and by his two aides-de-camp, Captain R. Stuart French and Lieutenant S. Le H. LombardHobson, R.N., and will be absent from the Dominion until August 19.

Lord and Lady Galway will arrive from Wellington by train on Wednesday morning, and will leave the Admiralty steps at noon to embark on the Leander. At 11 a.m. the cruisei will move out into the stream, and her commander, Captain J. W. Rivett-Camac will receive the Governor-General and Lady Galway on board at 12.10 p.m. At 1 o’clock the Leander will sail for her first port of call, Rarotonga. The Chief of the Naval Staff, Commodore H. E. Horan, will visit Auckland to see Lord Galway on board. Commodore Horan will arrive from Wellington to-morrow morning. Lord Galway’s visit to the islands will be the first Vice-Regal inspection since that by Viscount Bledisloe in 1933, when for reasons of economy it was considered necessary to exclude several of the islands in the Cook group which it had been customary for His Majesty’s representative to visit in the past. These islands have been included in Lord Galway’s itinerary. While Lord Galway is absent from New Zealand, the Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers) will act as his deputy. The itinerary of the Leander, as it was recently amended, is as follows; Rarotonga, July 12 to 14; Mangaia, July 14; Atiu, July 15; Mauke, July 15; Aitutaki, July 16; Penrhyn, July IS; Rakahanga July 19; Manahiki, July 19; Danger Island, July 20; Fakaofu (where there is a rendezvous with H.M.S. Leith), July 22; Nukunono, July 22; Atafu, July 23; Apia, July 24 to July 29;- Pago Pago, July 30 to August 1; Suva, August 4 to 10; Nukualofa, August 11 to 13; Niue, August 13; Sunday Island, August 17; Auckland, August 19.