LORD ISLINGTON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9224, 28 May 1910, Page 5

LORD ISLINGTON.

HIS WORK IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT. (Pee Pbess Association.) DUNEDIN, May 28. In the course of his reply, when presented with the citizens' address yesterday, Lord Plunket made the following reference to the new Governor, Lord Islington:—"l hope when Igo to Australia to be able to give my successor, whom I expect to meet there, some idea of the good time, and interesting time, and impressive time he is going to have in this country. I thnk you in the town of Dunedin and its municipality will have much to,, be proud of that you will have a Governor who, apart from his position of Governor, will appeal to you, because Lord Islington has taken a particular interest in municipal enterprise and municipal good-being. Lord Islington is a very thorough man. He is a man who, when he takee up a thing, carries it through, and one of the things he has taken the deepest interest in, though I have done so, too, to a certain extent, but not as much as he, is municipal work. He has done an enormous amount of good in England, especially in London, in connection with the general welfare of the working classes. He has helped enormously in connection with the erection of model dwellings for the working man, and although you don't require them here nearly as badly as in the Old Country, I am-.sure you will agree that you require a great many more here than you have at the present time.