LORD BLEDISLOE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19961, 20 November 1934, Page 6

LORD BLEDISLOE

CIVIC FAREWELL AT NELSON REGARD FOR THE TOWN By Telegraph —press Association NELSON, November 19. Their Excellencies Lord and Lady Bledisloe were accorded a civic farewell at Nelson this afternoon by a crowded gathering. Glowing tributes were paid by the Mayor (Mr W. J. Moffatt) and Mr H. Atmore. M.P. ! During the day visits were paid to various institutions. His Excellency said that as an old friend of Lord Rutherford he had been particularly interested in Rutherford House at Nelson College. The impression he had gained as he had walked through that delightful edifice was how very different were the conditions from those that Lord Rutherford must have experienced many years ago when he was a pupil of Nelson College. “I shall tell him *ll about it when I return,” said his Excellency. Speaking at the civic farewell, Lord Bledisloe said that he had often wondered why there was no portrait of Lord Rutherford in New Zealand by an eminent British artist. He was going to let them into a secret. It might interest his hearers to know that he anticipated that before he left for England he would see such a portrait executed by a British artist hung in the National Art Gallery at Wellington. Possibly Nelson College might secure a replica. He looked upon Nelson as the centre of science, art and education, richly endowed with floral beauty which had been to them while in New Zealand a happy resort for rest and recreation. He looked upon the Cawthron Institute of Scientific Research as one of the most enlightened enterprises ever established. He appealed to Nelsonians to preserve the beauty of their lovely territory from the vandals of commercialism. Lord and Lady Bledisloe returned to Wellington this evening.