ISLANDS CRUISE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 4, 5 July 1939, Page 6

ISLANDS CRUISE

LORD AND LADY GALWAY

ACHILLES'S ITINERARY

(13y Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, July 4,

The Governor-General, Lord Galway, accompanied by Lady Galway, will leave Auckland in the cruiser Achilles on Thursday to make hi& first visit to island groups under the New Zealand administration.

Such a tour was to have been made in the Leander last year, but it was cancelled abruptly because of prevalence of bronchial catarrh in Western Samoa and Niue Island and of German measles in Rarotonga and several other islands of the Cook Group. Lord and Lady Galway, accompanied by Lieutenant Lombard-Hobson, A.D.C., and personal attendants, will leave the city by naval pinnace at 3.10 p.m., and will be received on board by.Captain Parry, commanding the Achilles.

The cruiser will not return to port again till August 18. It will be her first ocean cruise sii.ce she returned. to Auckland early in May from England, whither she went at the end of last year to recommission.

From Auckland the cruiser will direct; to Rarotonga, whereshe iss due to arrive on Tuesday! Leaving Rarctonga the following day, she will visit in turn Mangaia, Mauke and Atiu, Aitutaki, Penrhyn, Rakehanga, and Manahiki. Danger Island, Fakaofu and Nukunono, and Atafu, all these calls being of one day each, before going to Samoa. From July 24 to 27 the Gov-ernor-General will visit Apia, and after that he will spend a similar length of time at Pago Pago in American Samoa. Then the Achilles will go on to Suva, spending six days there, before calling at Nukualofa and Niue, then coming on to Auckland.