FLIGHT-COMMANDER ROBERTSON.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17655, 3 September 1919, Page 4

FLIGHT-COMMANDER ROBERTSON.

YESTERDAY'S PROGRAMME.«

Yesterday . morning Flight-Com-mander Robertson, who is visiting Wanganui as ; the deputy of Lord Jellicoe, visited the Avenue School, where he was greeted by about 250 of the pupils, who received him "at the main gate. An interesting ceremony was afterwards held in the quadrangle, at the conclusion of which Mr Aitken, the headmaster, .asked Flight-Commander Robertson whether it would be possible to exchange the School's White Ensign tor a White Ensign belonging to the Nfey Zealand. The visitor expressed ln's pleasure at the opportunity of btifj^. ing the proposal to the notice of Lord^ Jellicoe. V

At 10.30 Fliglit-Conitaander Robertson accompanied by the chairman and members of the Harbour Board, the Deputy Mayor and the chairman of the Gonville Town Board, embarked, on the "Togo" and was taken on a visit of inspection, first up riyei to the quarries and then down to the Heads, Commander ' Robertsor evinced a keen interest in th< harbour works and the prospects oi the development of the port and district

On returning to town, shortly after 4 p.m., Commander Robertson visited the Cosmopolitan Club, afterwards dining with the Mayor ajid Mayoress at Foster's Hotel. To-day he will attend the faces aft Marton. .i