VICE-REGAL VISIT
BULLER MINES INSPECTED. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WESTPORT, June 22. The Governor-General, under the direction of Mr D. J. Archer, County Chairman of Buller, to-day visited 1 Denniston, Granity, Ngakawau, and Millerton. He made a lengthy inspection of the YVareatea Section of tho Westport Coal Company’s Denniston mines, this being particularly interesting to Lord Galway, as he is one of tho directors of a coal mining company in the Old Country. He was' especially pleased to note the area from which came the coal that saved the Calliope in the great storm at othr vssls no so wll Apia, which strewed the beaches with other vessels not so well fuelled. His Excellency briefly addressed the school children at Denniston, and, passing through tho other townships, he was cheered by the children, who were drawn up in lines under their teachers. Hon. P. C. Webb, Minister of Mines, accompanied Lord Galway.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 6
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