Lord Bledisloe's New Appointment: Farming Specialist London, Nov. 29, His Majesty the King has approved the appointment of Lord Bledisloe to be Governor-General of New Zealand in succession to General Sir Charles Fergusson, whose term of office will expire early in 1930, The new Governor-General be. came Conservative member of Parliament for South Wiltshire in 1910. He was then Mr. Charles Bathurst. In 1917 a knighthood of the Order of the Bri 'Empire was conferred upon him. In 1918, he received a peerage and assumed the title of Lord Bledisloe, He, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food during the War. He made farming his special ity and has presided "over _many' agricultural meetings,—British Wireless through Reuter,
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