DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1925, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

fur xiXEGiurn- -nut rr.i-:ss association. A .MAN MISSING. DALMKRSION N., Jan. 2. A local resident named SiiiniiUTS, u milkman, set out yesterday on a. visit to the Mill-: Company’s officer, but failed to return to liis home. The police search -o far has proved result less. The man tailed to arrive at the Conipauv’s Office. GOVERXOR-G EX F.U A JAR IHFMARKS. AUCKLAND, January 1. Deference to the All Blacks was made by the Governor-General (Sir Charles Fcrgusson) in replying to the address of welcome on Tuesday evening. Ilis Excellency said that he looked forward In welcoming the team on their return, and giving them a really good welcome for the wonderful, and he expected mi broken, series of victories which had been gained. < Applause.) ile honed that none of them would j iav the slightest attention to the absurd criticisms which one read in the newspapers ip regard to incidents of the tour and play. “ I can answer for it from what: I have been told at Home,” lie said. "It is all rubbish. What you have to remember is that there arc a' certain number of people in the world who are never so happy as when they are writing letters to the newspapers or are criticising things about which they know little or nothing. And I think T am perfectly safe in asserting that the people who write the majority of those criticisms know as much about Rugby football as 1 do about sheep sheari ngh” (Laughter.)

Considerable amusement was caused hy his Excellcncv’s disclosures of the secrets of an old diary of her Excellency. Referring to their early associations with Auckland, Fir Charles said that every tree and hush and mom at (lovernnient House had associations for Lady Fcrgusson. “ i happened to find lying on her table his morning,” he said, “ her diary of 1592. the year when she came here, and from curiosity I turned to ibe re, 0(1. • Laughter). It read some(king like this. ‘Arrived in Auckland 1,,.- llinemoii about II o’clock. Drove through the streets in procession and felt very grand.’ ” (Laughter). •• Thc'-e is mine more coining,” said sir ('hark . and he caused much hiughI.v reading this extract: “I n the !'l .a in-on played leap-1 rog.”