THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1924, Page 4

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.

VISIT TO NEW PLYMOUTH. RAIN MARS PROGRAMME. CITIZENS’ FAREWELL TO-DAY. Heavy rain marred the arrangements made for yesterday for the farewell visit of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral (Viscount Jellicoe). Lady Jellicoe and the Hon. Lucy Jellicoe. The visit to the golf links at Waiwakaiho by His Excellency and the Hon. Ducy Jellicoe wa« abandoned, the viceregal party spending the morning privately, With a continuance of the heavy rain the afternoon programme had to be considerably modified, but neverthelesa His Excellency was able to make his visits to the Technical College and the ‘Boys’ High School, where he addressed the cadets and presented the High School boys with his shooting trophy. These ceremonies took place prior to the unveiling of the cenotaph, where a considerably modified service was substituted (or the original programme. At night, the vice-regal party attended the Choral Society’s production of “The Creation,” and later went to the annual ball of the New Plymouth territorials.

This morning at 10.30 the people of New Plymouth and the surrounding district will take an official farewell of their Excellencies at Everybody’s Theatre, the party afterwards taking tea with the council of the Victoria League in the league rooms. The afternoon will be spent privately and at night their Excellencies will be the guests of the New Plymouth Savage Club at a ladies’ korero in the Workers’ Social Hall. They will leave for Wellington by the mail train to-morrow morning, afterwards paying a round of farewells in the South Island.