ISLANDS VISIT
GOI ERNOK (iE.XERAL AND LADV GALWAY [ Per Press Association.] j V/ ELLINGTON, May 2-1. The Governor-General, accompanied by Lady Galway, proposes to leave Auckland on July 6 for the purpose of paying official visits to Western Samoa, Niue, Rarotonga and other islands of Ihe Cook Group. He expects .to be absent, from the Dominion about six weeks. Their Excellencies will travel in H.M.S, Leander which, in the course of her autumn cruising programme, will visit the Pacific islands at this particular time. The last visit by a Governor-Gen-eral to the outlying territories administered by the New Zealand Government was made by Lord Blcdisloe m 1933 when, for reasons of economy, it was considered necessary to exclude several of the islands in the Cook Group which it has been customary for His Majesty’s representative to visit in the past. The Governor-General will appoint the Chief Justice of New Zealand, Sir Michael Myers, to be his deputy during his temporary absence from the Dominion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 121, 25 May 1938, Page 8
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