THE GOVERNOR. FUTURE MOVEMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1908, Page 8

THE GOVERNOR. FUTURE MOVEMENTS.

AUTHORISED CONTRADICTION OF RUMOURS. His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by Lady Plunket, Hon. Kathleen Plunket, and Captain Gathorne Hardy, A.D.C., arrived in Wellington by the Tutanekai last night. The steamer, with his Excellency and party on board, left Auckland on the 10th instant for Hokianga, where a brief stay was made. It was intended to call at Kawhia, which place Lord Plunket had promised to visit, but owing to bush flies, a thick smoke obscured the coastline, and it was decided to go on to the Marlborough Sounds. A very heavy sea was encountered between Hokianga and Cape Egmont. After spending a day or two in the Sounds, the party came on to Wellington. To-morrow his Excellency will visit the Mastoiton Show, returning in the evening. His engagements in Wellington include attending a meeting of tho trustees of the Rhodes Scholarships qn Friday afternoon, when the Dominion Rhodes scholar for the year will be chosen. On Friday night his Excellency leaves for Christchurch, where he is to lay the foundation stone of a new wing at Christ College. The Governor's party — consisting of Lady Plunket, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rhodes, Miss Creswell, and the Governor's staff — will leave Lyttelton on Saturday, 29th inst., in the Tutanekai, for Akaroa, where they will spend Sunday, Ist March. A visit will then be paid to Stewart Island and the West Coast Sounds. We have authority for stating that the rumours which have recently been in circitlation that his Excellency is going to lake up his residence at — amongst other places — the Lower Hutt, Palmerston North, Wanganui, etc. — are absolutely without foundation. Neither is it true that Lady Plunket and, the family intend to occupy Government House, Auckland, during the next session. Great difficulty is being experienced in securing a suitable residence for the Governor. In any caso, whatever house is selected, it is anticipated that considerable alterations or additions will have to bo made in order to accommodate his Excelloncy, Lady Plunket, their staff and establishment with any degree of comfort, and to enable the vice-regal party to entertain as has been their custom and is still their intention. Up to the present, no definite arrangements for a residence have been made.