GOVERNOR-GENERAL
SWEARING-IN CEREMONY FUNCTION NEXT MONDAY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 11. General Sir Bernard Freyberg, who is travelling to New Zealand by the Ruahine, is expected to be sworn in as Governor-General of the Dominion on Monday. Word was received from the captain of the Ruahine to-day that the ship should reach Wellington by 6 p.m. on Saturday. Lady Freyberg and the other members of the Vice-Regal staff are also on the Ruahine. General Freyberg will be sworn in by the Administrator of the Government, the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers. If the day is fine the ceremony will be held on the front step? of Parliament House, but should it be wet it will have to be held indoors, probably in the Legislative Council Chamber. After the swearing in ha? been completed, it is expected that the new Governor-General will be officially welcomed on behalf of the Government and the people of New Zealand iby the Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser, and that General Freyberg will make a speech in reply. This will be his first speech after the assumption of his new office.
General Freyberg will open the session of Parliament on June 26. Several functions, including a civic reception, are being planned in his and Lady Freyberg's honour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26176, 12 June 1946, Page 4
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