VICE-REGAL CRUISE
PACIFIC ISLANDS VISIT CARRYING OUT KING'S WISH ECONOMY ASPECT STUDIED [by telegraph—press association] WELLINGTON, " Friday Reference to the forthcoming visit to the Pacific Islands of himself and the Lady Bledisloe on H.M.S. Diomedc was made by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, at the official opening this evening of the new headquarters of the Wellington branch of the St. John Ambulance Association. Lord Bledisloe said it was Mi 3 Majesty's expressed desire that he should make the visit soon after coming to New Zealand, but tl 3 exigencies of public affairs within the.Dominion and the stringency of national finance had hitherto rendered such a visit impracticable. But for an arrangement which,' at his suggestion, had been arrived at with the Naval Department, enabling them to travel on board the cruiser in the course of her annual Pacific cruise, lifting the entire expense from the public purse, they .would have been unable during His Excellency's period of office to visit the oceanic portion of his administrative area. These were the sole reasons for visiting the Islands in the battleship.
Lord Bledisloe added he proposed to appoint the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, as his deputy in his absence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21462, 8 April 1933, Page 10
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