LORD ALLENBY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 27 January 1926, Page 5

LORD ALLENBY.

.SHORT TOUR OF NEW ZK.i

(BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION

AUCKLAND, Jam 26.

The Ulimaroa, which was at first expected to arrive to-uight, will not arrive' until early to-morrow morning. In consequence the programme for. FieldMarshal Lord -Alcnby’s visit has been revised. A civic reception will be accorded at noon. During their few hours' stay iu Auckland, Lord and Lady Allenby will be the guests of the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) at Government House, Auckland. The Hebrew congregation and the Auckland Zionist Society having ccpressed a wish to pay their respects to Lord Allenby as the liberator of Palestine, it has been arranged that a small deputation from both uoilies and fr ai the committee wn. .. was responsible for establishing the first infant welfare centre in Palestine on the New Zealand system shall wait upon him at Government House in thi course of the dav.

Lord and Lady Allenby, who are spending only a limited time in New Zealand, will leave for Wellington by train to-morrow night. Lord Allenby will spend Thursday and Friday in Wellington, where he will be entertained by the Prime Minister anil members of the Cabinet. A visit will then be made to the South Island, the tour including Christchurch, Dunedin ami Queenstown. Returning to the North Island, • Lord Allenby will visit Napier, Taupo and Rotorua, returning to Auckland to join a steamer for Vancouver on February .16.