OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 828, 28 May 1910, Page 6

OUR NEW GOVERNOR.

HIS INTERESTED? MUNICIPAL* WORK, SPEECH BY LORD PLTOfKET, (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedin, May 27. In the course of his reply, when presented with the, citizens' address today, Lord Plunket made the following reference to the new Governor, Lord Islington:— "I hope when I go to Australia to' be able to give my successor, whom I expect to meet there, some idea of the good time, and interesting time, and impressive time ho is going to have in this country. I think you in the town of Dunedin and its municipality will have much to be proud of—that you will have a Governor, that you will have a man, who, apart from his position of Governor, will appeal to you because Lord Islington has taken a particular interest in municipal enterprise and municipal well-being. Lord Islington is a very thorough man. He is a man when ho takes up a thing carries it through, and one of the things he has taken tho deepest interest in—though I have done so, too, to a certain extent, but not as much as he —is municipal work. He has done an enormous amount of good in England, especially in London, in connec-. tion with the general welfare of the working classes. He has helped enormouslv in connection with the erection of mo'del dwellings for the working man, and although you don't require them here nearly as badly as. in the Old Country, I am sure you will agree that you require a great many more here than you have at the present time." .■