TOUR OF ISLANDS
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL TRAVELLING ON CRUISER (T.y Tcleß-r.mh.—Pr*«« \s':ni-utlnn) WELLINGTON, Tuesday The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, accompanied by Lady Galway, proposes to leave Auckland on July 6 to pay official visits to Western Samoa, Nuie, Rarotonga and other islands in the Cook Group. Lord Galway expects to be absent from the Dominion for about six weeks. Their Excellencies will travel In H.M.S. Leander. which in the course of its autumn cruising programme w’iil visit the Pacific Islands at this particular time. The last Vice-Regal visit to the outlying territories administered by Ihe New Zealand Government was made by Viscount Bledisloe in 1933, when for reasons of economy it was considered necessary to exclude several nf the islands in the Cook Group, which it had been customary for His Majesty's representative to v isit in the past. The Governor-General will appoint the Chief Justice. Sir Michael Myers, to be his deputy during his temporary absence from the Dominion.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20507, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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158TOUR OF ISLANDS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20507, 25 May 1938, Page 6
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