SIR ISAAC ISAACS
COST OF LONDON VISIT . QOVEIJNMENT PA VS £4271 CANBERRA. Sept. 24. The Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, informed Mr. Nairn in the J louse of Representatives to-day that (lie Commonwealth had paid 84271 as the cost, o! a visit to London by Sir Isaac Isaacs to present himself to the King on his retirement from the office of KlovernorGeneral. “The visit was made at the instance ot the Government,” said Mr. Lyons. “An appointment to the office of GovernorGeneral is made personally by Hie King, and the holder of this ofiiee reports to His Majesty on retirement. Previous (ioveruors-Gcmeral were appointed from Great Britain, and the opportunity ol reporting personally to llis Majesty was available to them on their return home. This feature was absent in the. case of Sir Isaac Isaacs, whose home is in Australia. The expenditure has been inctirrcd in order that the usual procedure might be observed. No precedent existed as no previous Governor-General was residing in Australia before his appointment,”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 14
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