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AN OPENING EXPERT (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, 29th February. An assurance that lie could open anything from a till of sardines to Parliament was given by the Governor-Gen-eral, Lord Bledisloe, speaking at the opening of the Canterbury Horticultural Society’s show.
Sir Heaton Rhodes, president of the society', declared that as tar as he could remember no Governor-General had honoured them before by opening their show.
“Sir. Heaton disclosed the somewhat remarkable fact that no GovernorGeneral before to-day had opened your show,” replied his Excellency. "I cannot understand it, because il appears to me to be the normal function of a Gov-ernor-General tr open something. During the last eight days I have opened Parliament and also no fewer _ than three daffodil shows, culminating in the National Daffodil Society’s show, so f am (juile used to opening tilings, from a sardine tin to Parliament.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 September 1933, Page 8
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144HIS EXCELLENCY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 September 1933, Page 8
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