VISCOUNT COBHAM

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28368, 29 August 1957, Page 14

VISCOUNT COBHAM

Arrangements For Swearing-In

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, August 28. Viscount Cobham will be sworn in as GovernorGeneral of New Zealand within three hours of his arrival at Wellington tomorrow week. He and Lady Cobham, with their family of eight children, are travelling in the liner Rangitiki. After the liner berths at Pipitea wharf Lord Cobham will have a morning crowded with official functions, culminating in the swearing-in ceremony shortly after noon.

Lord Cobham will be greeted aboard ship by the Administrator of the Government (Sir Harold Bartowclough) and by the Prime Minister (Mr Holland) and other Ministers. Lord and . ady Cobham will be greeted by a salute of 21 guns from the saluting battery at Point Jerningham as they set foot ashore.

Mr Holland will present the Chiefs of Staff of the three services to Lord Cobham, who will then inspect a guard of honour drawn up on the wharf. The guard is being provided by the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and will be commanded by Flight Lieutenant R. I. F. Garrett. Lord and Lady Cobham will be welcomed to New Zealand by the chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board (Sir William Appleton). The ceremonies on the wharf are expected to occupy about half an hour after the berthing of the Rangitiki. Lord and Lady Cobham then go by car to the Wellington War Memorial, where representatives of the Returned Services’ Association will be presented to them. Lord Cobham will lay a wreath on the memorial. Lord and Lady Cobham’s children will go straight to Government House from the wharf.

The official party will then go to the Town Hall, where the Mayor (Mr F. J. Kitts, M.P.) and the Mayoress and city councillors and their wives will be introduced to them. This welcome is an informal one, and after a few minutes at the Town Hall, Lord and Lady Cobham will go to Government House.

The swearing-in ceremony will be on the steps of Parliament Buildings shortly after noon.

The guard of honour at Parliament Buildings will again be an Air Force party. For the swearing-in ceremony, the Clerk of the Executive Council (Mr T. J. Sherrard) will read the commission of appointment. The oaths of allegiance and of office will then be administered by Sir Harold Barrowclough.’ After the signing of the oaths by His Excellency, there will be a fanfare of trumpets and an artillery salute from Point Jerningham, and the Governor-General’s flag will be broken out over Parliament Buildings. The proclam-

ation of assumption of office will then be read to the public, and the Prime Minister will make a speech of welcome to their Excellencies.

If the weather is wet the swear-ing-in ceremony will be held in the Legistrative Council chambers in Parliament Buildings.