THE GOVERNORGENERAL
WESTPORT. January 2?L Their Excellencies. Lord and Lady Bledisloe. accompanied bv prominent eitij.eiis, made a tour of the coalmining town-hip to-day, and were wed 1 received. Addresses were given to school children where these could he assembled. At Stockton the miners were just about to leave in a rake of trucks tor the mines, and the Welsh members of the party, as a tribute to Lady Bledisloe. sang in Welsh the Welsh Anthem, Her Excellency joining in the singing with them. Eater a tour was made of tin* I\aramea Road as far as the Bluff. Their Excel; cue) s being greatly impressed with the glorious mountain, river and hush scenery, and with the evidences still remaining of the havoc wrought by the big quake in 1629. To-morrow morning they leave for Reefton, proceeding from there to Grcymouth, Hokitika and the Westland Glaciers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1931, Page 4
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144THE GOVERNORGENERAL Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1931, Page 4
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