LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 227, 25 September 1926, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS

The Skaw Sa.vill Company 's AVaiuera has been transferred to the Eellerman Bueknall Steamsbip Company and renamed Oitv of Pretoria. "Men or women who have the faculty of driving people on often achiev© much," observed His Excelleney the Governor-General during his addrevss at Marlborough College yesterday, "but th© man or woman u ho can lead people accomplishes ever so much more, and achieves infinitely befter results." In the course of one of his liappy little speechesi to tlre children, His Excellency the Governor-General said at Springlands school yesterday that the people who made a home golden are the little people. "You can make your home golden,'' he toki them, "and vour father and mother liappy if you are always bright and cheerful and never cross and had tempered." "You wili all go out into the world with th© iiall mark of Marlborough College upon you," said His Excellency, addressing the pupils yesterday, "and yours is the responsibility for making or marring the charaeter of the College. The C'ollege wili be judged by what each one of yon does. That is your responsibility. If you have' an ideal and it is service to your country and to others, that way you wili find success and wili become a pride to your school." The tribulations of the amateur Tibotographer are many. At the Springlands school yesterday, obseiving a lad attempting to secure a photograph, Their Excellencies patiently posed before the camera, but when the lad finally pressed tb^ hntton, His Excellency informed him that he had noticed one finger c\er' the lens, so that the photograph would be a failure. "Have another shot, my boy," he invited kinclly. but the photogrnpher's cup nf hitterness was full. He had no

n ore failures. A unique and 'nteresting fenture of the vice~reg;al visit to> Seddon yesterday was the bringinp; together of three descendauts of Govqrnors of British Dominions — His Excellency, the Governor-General, a son of Rir James Fergusson, a former Gove.vror of New Zealand, Her Elxcellency the Lady Alice Fergusson, the daughter of the late Lord Glasgow, a former Governor of New Zealand; and Mr B. A. AVeld. a. ^on of the late Rir Frede^ick Weld, at one time Governor of "West Australia and the Rtraitx Settlemeuts, and a former Prime Ministor of New Zealand. The beautif.il weather with wliich they hav©' been favored during their visit to MarlborO'Ugh ha® delighted Their Eixcellencies. Speaking at Seooon yesterday, tbe GovernorGeneral said be had been given to uuderstand that the weather was typieal of Marlborough (ApplauseL "I don't know," added His Excellency maliciously, "what you would have said abo.it th? weather being typical if we had arrived last week. (Laughter). I just wanted to say, howe/er, that apart altogetber from the sunny skies, we have experiencecl what Lord Jellicoe said went with New Zealand's sunny skies — warm hearts. V7e bave I spent four very happv days with | you and we have ©njoyed every minnte of our stay. It wili certain ly not be our fault if we dp not ccme back agaip," (Applause).