LORD BLEDISLOE AND BRISTOL
An interesting reference to his family’s connection with the city of Bristol was made by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, when referring to the Rotary Club’s Bristol scheme recently. Hisj Excellency said that Bristol was the great West Country city and that the public service that had been done by his forbears had been mainly in the interests of the people of Bristol, fle might also say that his great-grandfather, when the sole member of the House of Commons for Bristol, had had, as Secretary of War, the experience of announcing in the House the result of the Battle of Waterloo. Speaking of the Bristol scheme to provide work, Lord Bledisloe said that it was an excellent idea to keep employed a large number of men who otherwise might not only have been unemployed, but might have been eating out their hearts with disappointment and losing hope. He desired to commend the scheme and to congratulate employers in the city who had taken it up in the interests of men who would otherwise be unemployed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22365, 12 September 1934, Page 17
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