VICE-REGAL
SIR BERNARD AND LADY FREYBERG
VISIT TO CHRISTCHURCH NEXT WEEK
x His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., G.dM ? G„ K.C.8., D. 5.0., accompanied by Lady Freyberg, will next week pay his first visit to Christchurch as GovernorGeneral of New Zealand. Their Excellencies will arrive on Tuesday morning and will be met at the Christchurch railway station by the Mayor (Mr E. H. Andrews) and the Mayoress (Mrs Hardy Cookson). In the morning they will be taken for a drive round 4Jie city and its environs, and in the afternoon his Excellency will lay the foundation stone of the new probationary nurses’ home at .St. George’s Hospital. A visit will also be paid to the rooms of the Red Cross organisation. In the evening there will be a civic reception to their Excellencies in the Civic Theatre. The speakers will be the Mayor, Cr. Mary McLean (president of the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women), representing the women of Christchurch, and the Hon. D- G- Sullivan (Minister of Industries and Commerce), representing the Government. There will be a musical programme and a bound forma] address will be presented to his Excellency. On the Wednesday morning their Excellencies will visit soldier patients at the Coronation Hospital and in the afternoon they will visit Burwood Hospital. His Excellency will vigit the rooms of the Chi-istchurch Returned Services’ Association, and in the evening Lady Freyberg will visit the Canterbury Women’s Club, of which she is patron.
Their Excellencies will leave for the south on the morning of Thursday. July 4.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 6
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