OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue 22, 5 November 1924, Page 3

OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

AUDIENCE WITH THE KING. (Electric Telegraph.—Copyright). (Received This Day, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 3. The King gave audience to General Sir Charles Fergussoh, who kissed hands on his appointment as Gover-nor-General of New Zealand. His Majesty invested him with the in* signia of K.C.M.G.—(“Argus”). ENTERTAINED. BY COLONIAL INSTITUTE. . A REMINISCENT MOOD. ( Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 4. At the Colonial Institute luncheon to the New Zealaned Governor, General Sir Charles Fergusson, and the Tasmanian* Governor, Mr O’Grady, the chairman, Sir Godfrey Lagden, recalled Labor's repudiation of the previous Government’s agreements with tlu Dominions, and hoped that never again could such a conference be rendered abortive and that a way would be found -to avoid such risk in future. Never was there a time when the Empire stood more in need of being strongly united, both for its own preservation and the preservation of tilt peace of the. world. He declared that one drop of a good New Zealander's blood was worth all the blood of the Bolshies (laughter and cheers). Sir Charles Fergusson, responding to his toast, recalled arriving in Adelaide in 18(58 and travelling on a horse-drawn railway, admiring the redcoats outside Government (House. This suggested his military career, which dated therefrom. He proceeded in 1872 to New Zealand with his father, who explored the New Zealand Sounds, where they' found they were unable to cast anchor. lie further recalled that* his father introduced trout into New Zealand from his Scottish estate. Sir Charles Fergusson humorously anticipated that as a fisherman he would have a cordial welcome from the trout. He quoted a Scottish paper of 1872 eulogising the unflinching loyalty of New Zealanders in the face of rebuff’s and disappointments, the princely bearing of the natives and the potentialities of a country calculated to receive millions of their fellow countrymen. He thought the same might be written to-day. Sir Charles concluded by stating his belief that on the consolidation of the Empire depended the peace and security of the world. The prospect of an honorable connection for five years with New Zealand was extreinelv pleasing. (Cheers). — (Renter).