AUSTRALIAN GOVERNORS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 96, 6 April 1934, Page 13

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNORS

Claims for Their States GENERAL USES VERNACULAR LONDON, March 27. Two new Australian Governors have already started to dispute which is the pre-eminent State, and which the finest capital, but neither mentions Sydney or New South Wales. Txird Huntingfield, the new Governor of Victoria, at a farewell luncheon, described Victoria as the pre-eminent State, and Melbourne as the finest, capita] in any Dominion. The Dominion Secretary, Mr. J. H. Thomas, said he was delighted that Victoria, after three years, again recognised that a. Governor was a real link with the King. It would be s. sad day when any State failed to realise the value of that link. Sir Archibald Woigall. former Governor, congratulatig Major-General Winston Dugan, the new Governor of South Australia, who was present, said that everyone envied him his luck. After the luncheon, Major-General Dugan, in the course of conversation, declared: “It is all very fine for Lord Huntingfield to describe'Victoria. as the pre-eminent State, but, in truth, that honour belongs to South Australia. “I hope my duties will not confine me too much to Adelaide. I am most anxious to meet the blokes outback, especially the Diggers.”