VICE-REGAL VISIT

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1937, Page 2

VICE-REGAL VISIT

GREYMOUTH ARRANGEMENTS. His Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Galway) is expected to arrive at Greymouth on Thursday. evening, from Westport, on his first official visit to the district. He will stay at Revington’s Hotel, and will leave for Christchurch on Saturday.

A civic reception is to be tendered to His Excellency at 8 p.m. on Thursday, in the Municipal Chambers. The Municipal. Civic, and Pipe Bands have been invited to assemble at Revington’s Hotel at 7.50 p.m., and escort His Excellency to the Town Hall. Members of the Returned Soldiers’ Association have been invited to attend, and the Commanding Officer,' B Company. Nelson, Marlborough, and West Coast Regiment, has been requested to provide a guard of honour. Lord Galway expressed a wish to inspect a coal-mine in the district, and it has accordingly been arranged that he shall visit the State Mine at Rewanui, on Friday morning. A special train will leave Greymouth at 0.20 a.m., arriving at Rewanui at 10.3 a.m. It will leave Rewanui at 12.20 p.m., and arrive at Greymouth at 12.54 pan.

Visits to the schools have been arranged for Friday afternoon, as follow: Technical School, 2 p.m. to 2.15 p.m. Grey Main School. 2.20 p.m. to 2.35 p.m. Convent and Marist Schools, 2.40 p.m. to 2.55 p.m. Cobden State School, 3 p.m. to 3.15 p.m. Cobden Convent, 3.20 p.m. to 3.35 p.m. The Governor-General % will attend a Masonic, function, on Friday evening, and will leave by Saturday's express, for Christchurch. WELCOME AT WESTPORT. WESTPORT. June 21. The Governor-General, Lord Galway, accompanied by Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines, arrived from Nelson to-day.

His Excellency was given a civic reception by the Mayor, Mr. J. Kilkenny, and by the citizens. He was later the guest 'at a dinner in the Hotel Buller given by the local bodies. There was a large and representative and enthusiastic gathering. To-morrow the Governor-General visits the coal mines and other places of interest. In his reply to the toast of “Past Councillors,” Mr. W. A. Flavell, Generaj Manager of the Westport Coal Co., mentioned that in wages and other services the company’s mines were worth £250,000 a year to Buller.