LORD BLEDISLOE BUSY
HAD ONLY ONE MONTH'S NOTICE
BROTHER ACCOMPANIES HIM | CKited P.A.—BV Telegraph -Com,. ~ .', ’ Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON. Monday*. It is understood that I.ord Bledisloe’s brother. Major A. H. Bathurst, will accompany the New Zealand Governor-General designate to the Dominion. Lord Bledisloe was interviewed at his Sloane Street residence, where the oak-panelled library was a scene of feverish activity. Lord Bledisloe. who was entrenched behind bundles of papers, said: ”1 am very busy, l am unable to rest even on Sunday.” Asked w hen he w >uld leave for New Zealand, he replied: “I do not know. Everything lias been most hurried. The present Governor-General, Sir Charles Fergnsson. will leave in January. Perhaps i shall bo obliged to sail then. “It is usual to give new I>-appointed Governors a minimum of six months* notice; I have had merely a month's notice. However. I am completely in the hands of the Dominions Office; whatever I am ordered to do I shall obey.** Mr. Samuel Whitley, brother of the Rt. Hon. J. H. Whitley, formerly Speaker of the House of Commons, will lead the Empire farmers’ delegation on its tour of the Dominions. Ho is a dairying expert.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 9
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