SIR CYRIL NEWALL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1941, Page 6

SIR CYRIL NEWALL

ARRIVAL IN WELLINGTON

THE OFFICIAL WELCOME.

CHEERS FROM ASSEMBLED SPECTATORS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON. This Day

The Governor-General Designate. Sir Cyril Newall. and Lady Newall and their family, arrived this morning. in brilliant weather, the train arriving at the platform promptly on schedule time at 8.55 a.m. The Administrator ‘Sir M. Myers'), who was accompanied by the Clerk of the Executive Council, entered the viceregal carriage and greeted Sir C. Newall.

The station platform was decorated with flags and a red carpet led to the edge of the platform, beyond which was drawn up a guard of honour front the Army School. Trentham. and the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Just after nine o'clock, the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, entered the carriage and shortly afterwards Sir C. Newall set foot in Wellington. He was received with the Royal Salute, following which he. the Administrator and the Chiefs of Staffs inspected the guard, while the Air Force Band played in slow measure the Maori melody ”E Pari Ra.” After the inspection. Mr Fraser presented to Sir C. Newall and Lady Newall Ministers of the Crown and the wives, the High Commissioners for the United Kingdom and Canada and their wives, members of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives and their wives, the Chiefs of Staffs and the Commissioner of Police.

The ceremony at the station closed with a Royal Saline. All these pro- ; cecdings were watched from outside ) by the interested public, which gath- ‘ ered also at the vehicle exits and cheered as the cars left. They went to the Citizens’ War Memorial, where i representatives of the Wellington and New Zealand R.S.A. were presented to Sir C. Newall. who placed a wreath. Sir C. Newall was then driven to the Town Hall and introduced by Mr Fraser lo the Mayor and Mayoress (Mr and Mrs T. C. A. Hislop). The ceremony there was informal, the Mayor introducing councillors and their wives and the chief officers of the council. A quarter of an hour later Sir C. Newall and Lady Newall, carrying a bouquet of gladioli, drove lo Government House, accompanied by spontaneous cheers from the people gathered outside the hall. LOYAL ASSURANCES ADDRESS BY PREMIER. WELLINGTON. This Day. Welcoming Sir Cyril Newall and Lady Newall on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand, the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) expressed a most earnest desire that their stay in New Zealand might be happy. They would find the people imbued with all the characteristics and spirit of the highest tradition of the British race — men and women inspired with a fervent wish to share lo the full with their kinsfolk in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the task of defending their lives and liberties and in preserving Christian civilisation and the democratic way of life. Mr Fraser took the opportunity of stating that we appreciated more than words could tell the splendid and inspiriting example of their Majesties, the King and Queen, who were willingly and courageously sharing all the dangers to which the heroic people of Britain were exposed. Now Zealand. Mr Fraser stated had embarked upon its war effort with a firm determination to strain every nerve and sinew and spare no sacrifice to make its con-

-! tribution the fullest and most effect’■jive within its power. He assured his • Excellency that we faced the future r l with no other feelings but these and i] with full confidence in ultimate victory e; in this grave and critical hour. It was eia matter of great satisfaction that a .* Governor-General with so distinguish--1 i'd a record should have come to live ;i in our midst in New Zealand It was M most appropriate, in the present cir- - j emnstances, that the representative of » the King should come from the armed f; services and from among the most (• conspicuous of those who had given ’tsui’li unstinted services to the Empire f'during the present conflict • "Wi- couni ourselves singularly fort; lunate on this occasion that New ZeaL land should have as Governor-General ran airman ot such excepliomil experi- ■ t !!(■<• one whose profound knowledge • jif the problems of modern warfare in : ‘ ,d! its phases demand- the very high- | vst re-peet. and <>ne whose achieve- .' menl m building up the RAF. until it has become the tinest in the world : commands the undying gratitude of the ! British people,” Mr Fraser said. . ■ His welcome he added was extend- ' ed on behalf of both races. Maori and ' pukoh.i. Both were bound together in j a common destiny, and freely united : i.nee again in otfering their blond in . defence of democratic ideals —