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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 7

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SUBJECTS FOR SPEECH GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S RESTRICTIONS. [ Special “Chronicle*' Service. ] AUCKLAND, April 20. The subjects upon which a Governor General may speak are extraordinarily limited. He is expected to have ideas but he is also expected to keep those ideas more or less to himself. Speaking at the monthly luncheon of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce today, the Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergusson, humorously deplored the restrictions with which his office is hedged about. “There are too many corns which might be trodden on. The ice is too thin on most subjects and I am debarred from speaking on such topics as the Parliamentary system, unemployment, the respective merits of primary and secondary industries, immigration and, shall I say, the civic centre of Auckland or tho water supply? I have to choose something much less stimulating! ’’ Explaining that in his wanderings about the Domi-Jon he strove to learn all he could, his Excellency said he believed he could learn still more were ho allowed to enter either of the Houses of Parliament. As it was, he had to rely on what he read in Hansard or what he heard from gossip but that information was often very interesting. For instance, a member of one of the parties of State had declared that his party stood for God, King, and country and when it left office his party intended to leave all those institutions better than it found them!