General and Lady Freyberg

Chronicle (Levin), 17 June 1946, Page 4

General and Lady Freyberg

-Press Association

PLEASANT VOYAGE OUT /

By Telegraph-

; , WELLINGTON, June 16. With the Governor-General designate, Sir Bernard Freyberg, standing be'side the captain on the bridge, the Ne-w Zealand Shipping ' Company's Ruahine berthed 'at Pipitea Wharf, Wellington, this morning. She arrived in the streara from London the previous evening but remained at » anchor during the hOui's of darkness. Sir "Bernard and Lady , Freyberg did not disembarlc today. Because of the requirement that he should be sworn in as Governor-General within a certain period of stepping ashore, Sir Bernard will not of&cially land until 9.40 a.m. tomorrow. He and Lady Freyberg, with their staff, posed for photographs on the boat deck soon after the ship berthed. Sir Bernard 's military secretary, Major the

Hon. N. Wigram and Mrs. Wigram, went out in the port health officer's tug and joined the ship in the stream. Travelling with General and Ladjr Freyberg were their lady-in-waiting, Miss R. Eley, and naval and air aides-de-camp, Lieutenant D. Loran and Flight Lieutenant M. Cole. The (Jnited Kingdom High Commissioner, Sir Patrick.Duff and Lady Duff, met'the ship at the wharf. "It has been one of the most pleasant voyages I've made," said the •master of the ship, Captain A. K Lettington. "We ran in to some bacl weather after leav.ing Pitcairn Island which delayed us a day but otherwise it was a good trip." Passeugers paid a tribute to the way in which General and Lady Freyberg entered into community amusements. "They were responsible for the very

* fine spirit which existed on board," There were in all 141 passeugers. There were five naval ofificers and four wives and children of naval men. The only army man in the list was Colonel W. N. Pharazyn, who returned with Mrs. Pharazyn after serving as New Zealand military att'ache in Washington for a period and tlien visited England. in addition there was one army wife, one_ fiancee, two personnel of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, four air force wives and oue child, and eight wives of merchant uavy -men. Many of the civilian pasuengers were New Zealand ers returaing after being in Britain .through the war years. •