VICE-REGAL TOUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1939, Page 5

VICE-REGAL TOUR

LORD AND LADY GALWAY TO VISIT ISLANDS. LEAVING AUCKLAND IN ACHILLES TOMORROW. (By Telegraph—-Tress Association.) AUCKLAND, July 4. The Governor-General, Lord Galway, accompanied by Lady Galway, will leave Auckland in the cruiser Achilles on Thursday to make his first visit to island groups under the New Zealand administration. Such a tour was to have been made in the Leander last year, but it was cancelled abruptly because of prevalence of bronchial catarrh in Western Samoa and Niue Island and of German measles in Rarotonga and several other islands of the Cook Group. Lord and Lady Galway, accompanied by Lieutenant Lombard-Hobson, A.D.C., and personal attendants, will leave the city by naval pinnance at 3.10 p.m., and will be received on board by Captain Parry, commanding the Achilles.

The cruiser will not return to port again till August 18. It will be her first ocean cruise since she returned to Auckland early in May from England, whither she went at the end of last year to recommission.

From Auckland, the cruiser will go direct to Rarotonga, where she is due to arrive on Tuesday. Leaving Rarotonga the following day, she will visit in turn Mangaia, Mauke and Atiu, Aitutaki, Penrhyn, Rakehanga and Manahiki, Danger Island, Fakaofu and Nukunono, and Atafu, all these calls being of one day each, before going to Samoa. From July 24 to 27 the Go-vernor-General will visit Apia and after that he will a similar length of time at Pago Pago in American Samoa. Then the Achilles will go on to Suva, spending six days there, before calling at Nukualofa and Niue, then coming on to Auckland.