GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S TOUR
WELCOME ON THE WEST COAST.
By Telegraph.—Press Association,
Westport, Last Night,
Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Bledisloe, accompanied by prominent citizens, made a tour of the coalmining townships to-day and were well received. Addresses were given to school children where they could be assembled. AtStockton the miners were just about to leave in a rake of trucks for the mines, and the Welsh members as a tribute to Lady Bledisloe. sang in Welsh the Welsh anthem, her Excellency heartily joining in the singing with them.
Later a tour was made of the Karamea Road as far as The Bluff, their Excellencies being greatly impressed with, the glorious mountain, river and bush scenery, and with the evidences still remaining of the havoc wrought by the big earthquake in .1929. Tb-morrow morning they will leave for Reefton, proceeding from there to Greymouth, Hokitika and the Westland glaciers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1931, Page 5
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