THE NEW GOVERNOR

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1929, Page 11

THE NEW GOVERNOR

A PRACTICAL FARMER

LORD BLEDISLOE'S IDEAS

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LONDON, 30th November. -Ihe newly-appointed Governor-Gen-era! of New ZealaaAj Bledig a fine type of English country gentle-man-medium height, athletic buila grey-haired and moustached He is an enthusiastic agriculturist and is a practical farmer in a large way, with extensive estates in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. He farms these estates on the most modern principles, securing the highest wheat averages. He is au expert in the treatment of grasslands and the improvement in the breed of ive-stock and is a strong supporter of by a farmer family as opposed to the tenant S} , item . He advocates co-opera! ,T^ farm"s not-merely in the salo of produce but also in the purchase of raw materials, transportation, and the use of credit facilities. He considers pontr fTI? Sh°Uld orßanise for the control of the wholesale markets and regulate the sale of their products. Lord Bledisloe is particularly interested in New Zealand's dairy produce market system, and keenly anticipates observing the scheme in actual operation in New Zealand. He had intended to lead the farmers' delegation which will shortly visit Australia and Aew Zealand. He expects to embark for havr Zealand in January.

ADVOCATE OF FAMILY FABMS.

In an article published in the "Spec-t-ator," Lora Bledisloe said that tho creation of small family farms had become an urgent need for the output of home-grown food and tie production of efficient men and women, well equipped for tho task of. peopling the "overseas Jj-mpire. "It is indeed the human products of tho peasant proprietary system, such as exists in Scandinavia, which has provided Australia, Canada, and New Zealand with a far more experienced and more confident type of settler '.nan Britain is able to do, either from the urban unemployed or from tho ill-equipped denizens of the devitalised; countryside operating helplessly under the worn-out territorial, economic system."

Lord Bledisloe, speaking to-night at a dinner of the Gloucester Institute of Bankers, said that ho was rather preoccupied because three days ago tha King, on the recommendation of the Government of one of the foremost Dominions, had asked him to undertake the Governor-Generalship of New Zealand. It was with the deepest regret he would have to absent himself from, the dear old country for five years. He felt most diffident, but would try to justify His Majesty's selection, and would do the best in his power as aa Englishman and a , Gloucestershire' man.

THE ONLY DISCORDANT NOTE.

Tho only discordant note in Lord Bledisloe's appointment was struck by the "Daily Herald," which asks why the Government should appoint a Tory. "It might well have followed the precedent of Tasmania, where Sir James O'Grady had acquitted himself with distinction."