VICE-REGAL VISIT
! THURSDAY’S ARRANGEMENTS LUNCHEON AND RECEPTION. GATHERING OF CHILDREN IN .PARK. Arrangements have been completed for the official visit to Masterton on Thursday of their Excellencies, the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, and Lady Newall.
Sir Cyril Newall and Lady Newall arc due to arrive in Masterton at 11.25 a.m. and at 11.30 the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan (accompanied by the Mayoress) and the Town Clerk, Mr G. T. O’Hara Smith, will pay a brief call on his Excellency. At 11.45 a.m., Sir Cyril Newall and Lady Newall will visit Masterton Park, where a combined gathering of school children is to be held. In the event of wet weather this function will be held in the Municipal Hall. A Guard of Honour will be provided by Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. On arrival at the Park, their Excellencies will be met by the Mayor, who will present the heads of local schools and the chairmen of local school committees.
A reception will be held at the Hotel Midland, at which representative citizens, including borough councillors, county councillors and other local body representatives, members of Parliament, etc., will be presented to their Excellencies. A civic luncheon at the Hotel Midland will follow, commencing at 1.0 p.m., to which local body representatives are among those invited. A civic reception will, be tendered to their Excellencies at (he Municipal Hall at 2.15 p.m. The first six bars of "God Save the King” will be played by the Masterton Municipal Band when their Excellencies reach their places on the platform. After the reading of a formal address by the Mayor and his Excellency’s formal reply, addresses will be given by the Mayor (Mr Jordan), Mr Gordon Lee, chairman of the Masterton County Council and by Mr J. Robertson, member for Masterton. Sir Cyril Newall will then reply. The singing of the first, and third verses of “God-Save the King" will conclude the reception. Following the civic reception, their Excellencies will visit Masterton Hospital at 3.0 p.m. At 4.0 p.m. Sir Cyril Newall will pay a brief visit to the Masterton Club and Lady Newall will visit the rooms of the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild, followed by a brief visit to the Ranfurly Club at about 4.20
p.m. Their Excellencies will leave Masterton at about 5.0 p.m.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 4
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382VICE-REGAL VISIT Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1941, Page 4
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