Lord Willingdon’s Visit to New Zealand
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 3. The Marquess of Willingdon, former j Viceroy of India, who is to be the official British representative at the New Zealand Centennial celebrations, to-day denied rumours that he would bo succeeding Lord Gowrie as Governor-General of Australia. “I am too old to take up a job of that nature,” he said, “but I have arranged a short stay in Australia when I go to New Zealand.’’ He will carry a bundle of letters 18 inches high as a result of his offer to the New Zealand Anti-Tank Battery personally to carry to New Zealand letters its members wrote to their families.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 4, 5 January 1940, Page 7
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