LORD BLEDISCOE
SHORT NOTICE OE APPOINTMENT
[United Press Association.—By Electric
Telegraph.—Copyright.]
LONDON, December 2. Interviewed at his Sloan Street Mansion, where his oak-panelled library is the scene of feverish activity, Lord
Bledisloe, the new Governor-General ol
Kew Zealand, was entrenched behind bundles of papers, fie remarked: “1 am most busy, and have been unable to rest, even on Sunday.” Asked when lie was departing, he replied: “I do not know! Everything has been most hurried. Sir Charles f’ergusson is leaving New Zealand in January. Maybe J will be obliged to sail then. It is usual to warn appointees for a minimum of six months. 1 have merely been given one month’s notice. However, 1 am completely in the hands of tiie Dominions Ofhc-e. Whatever I am ordered to do, I obey.” TO ACCOMPANY GOVERNOR. (Received this dnv at 8 a.m.) LONDON, —fee. 2. It is understood Lord Bledisloe’s brother, Major A. PI. Bathurst, accompanies hiin to New Zealand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1929, Page 5
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