LONDON TRIBUTE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 2 October 1934, Page 7

LONDON TRIBUTE.

Keen Soldier and Fond of Sport. INTERESTED IX FARMING. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received October 2, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. Lor dGalwav, New Zealand’s new Governor-General, is six feet four inches in height and a handsome, soldierly figure. lie early developed a love of sport and country life and shares Lord Bledisloe’s enthusiasm for agriculture, though he himself has not participated directly in it since the farming slump. lie and Lady Galway are the son and daughter respectively of notable masters of foxhounds. Their fair-headed children, Mary (born in 1924), Celia (born in 1925), Isabel (born in 1928) and Simon (born in 1929), will accompany their parents to New Zealand, vj|t Panama, and the voyage will probably be made in February. Apart from his military career. Lord Galway was early attracted to politics. Twice in 1910 he narrowly failed to win the Scarborough seat in the Conservative interest and seemed assured of the seat when the war intervened. He was one of the first to go to France with the advance party of the Household Cavalry and travelled in the first train leaving the base for the concentration area. He served throughout the war in France and Flanders, but being a cavalryman did not come iti contact with the New Zealand troops. After the war the Scarborough constituency was altered by the Redistribution Bill and Lord Gahvav did not stand for Parliament again, devoting his energies to the Life Guards. Lord Galway is fond of all kinds of sport, particularly riding and hunting. In 1907 he won the Life Guards’ regimental race, and in 1912 he won the heavy-weight Army Pointo-to-Point race with his own horse. Interviewed, Lord Galway, who was born and still lives in Nottinghamshire, explained that the title itself was his his connection Ireland. Doubtless it had been conferred at a time when the English Government was anxious to pack the Irish Upper House with English peers, but on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee a baronv of the Unite dKingdom was conferred, enabling his father and later himself to sit in the House of Lords, where he was a strong supporter of the National Government. Lord Galway is a prominent Freemason and became Grand Master and Senior Warden in 1935. He has since visited India, Canada and Sweden with Masonic deputations. He was vicechairman of the Nottinghamshire County Council, and a hard worker in local administration, in which he follows in his father’s footsteps. His wife, whom Lord Galway describes as a better fisherman than himself, is a keen sportswoman and fox hunter and is interested in nursing and child welfare movements.