VICE-ROYALTY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 10

VICE-ROYALTY

WELCOME AT WHAKATAN&. .

(By Telegraph.-Press Association.)

WHAKATANE, This Day.£ • The Governor-General- and Lady; - ■ Alice Fergusson and Mr. Bernard F«in., o tgusson visited Whakatane yesterdays„. and were warmly welcomed by the cit£ „ -lens. ' '.■'■. • • '•-''•

The Vice-Eegal party visited th*^. school, and received a hearty welcome " from the children. The Governor-Gen-".' eral delivered an appealing address to the children, and planted an oak tree in the school grounds. '. ■'•")■"' The citizens then assembled at the ' Domain, where the Mayor, Mr. W. Sullivan, and the county chairman, Mr; W. Reid, heartily welcomed the visitors*- • The Vice-Regal party then visited th« ■"•■ public hospital, and made a thorough' inspection of the building, afterwards being entertained to afternoon tea by; the hospital staff.

At the Owhataiti Native school. Natives assembled and gave the visitor*. *- a typical Maori welcome,. with hakas, in the evening.

A Masonic function was held in hon» our of the Governor-General,: and th« . Mayoress gave a reception to Lady. „ Alice Fergusson, which was attended' by ladies from throughout the district. ■■ The Vice-Regal party left for Gis- - borne, via Opotiki, this morning. ./' '■ AT OPOTIKL *• ■■ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ... OPOTIKL. This DayV ;..,. The Governor-General; and Lady : Alice Fergusson arrived at 11.50, and : Vere welcomed by the Mayor, Me.-; Moody, *lso by Mr, Hogg (county), and Billie Wright and Koopu Eruett... (Maori tribes). Mr. Wright presented,, the Governor-General with an historis;, greenstone earring, which the Governor^ said would be treasured with -the tteii" presented to his father. "",.

The Vice-Regal party visited tWu,.' school. The Governor-General adddres*:,. Ed the children, and subsequently the. visitors were entertained at luncheon. Then they met the residents in thiC'' hall, after which they left for Motu. "' ,