HISTORIC OCCASION
MR. FAIRBAIRN SWORN IN AT OTTAWA
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received November 15, 12.40 p.m.)
RUGBY, November 14.
A message from Ottawa reports that a ceremony unprecedented in the Empire's history took place at Government House today when the GovernorGeneral, Lord Tweedsmuir, swore in office as Air Minister in the Australian Federal Government Mr. J. V. Fairbairn, who is at present in Canada as head of the Australian mission'in connection with the Empire air training scheme. This is the first time the Governor-General of one Dominion has given the path to a Minister of another Dominion.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19391115.2.65.6
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 9
Word Count
97HISTORIC OCCASION Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 118, 15 November 1939, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in