NEXT GOVERNOR=GENERAL
SIR LIONEL HALSEY NAMED
A VERY POPULAR CHOICE
By this time next year New Zealand will have another GovernorGeneral, and Lord Galway has already begun his farewell visits, says a writer in the London “Daily Telegraph.” His successor may possibly be a New Zealander, although I understand that this is not very likely. If the new Governor-General comes from this country he may well be a sailor again. Lord Jellicoe was succeeded by Sir Charles Fergusson, a soldier, and by Lord Bledisloe, a farmer, Lord Galway also is a soldier, so it is perhaps the Navy's turn again. A very popular choice would be Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, who commanded H.M.S. New Zealand on her cruise to the Dominion in 1913 and also visited the country with ’the then Prince of Wales (the Duke of Windsor). He stated recently that, but for the war, he would almost certainly have settled in New Zealand. Both he and Lady Halsey fell in love with the country when the admiral was stationed in Australia and New Zealand waters. ' Incidentally he is a keen fisherman.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1939, Page 4
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183NEXT GOVERNOR=GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1939, Page 4
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