PACIFIC ISLAND TOUR.
VISIT OF LORD AND LADY BLEDISLOE. NO EXPENSE TO COUNTRY. WELLINGTON, April 7. Speaking at the opening of the headquarters of the St. John Ambulance tonight Lord Bledisioe referred to the visit to the Pacific Islands of himself and Lady Bledisioe. He said it was His Majesty’s expressed desire that he should do this soon after coming to New Zealand, but the exigencies of public affairs within the Dominion and the stringency of national finance had hitherto rendered such a visit impracticable. But for an arrangement which, at his suggestion, had been arrived at with the Naval Department, enabling him to travel on board a cruiser in the course of her annual Pacific cruise, thus lifting the entire expense from the public purse he would have been unable, during His Excellency’s period n£ office to visit the Oceanic portion of Mui administrative area. These were the sole reasons for visiting the Islands in a warship. Lord Bledisioe added that he proposed to appoint the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, as his deputy in his absence.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 8 April 1933, Page 5
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