General, has said farewell to his official home at Canberra for the last five years, and was sad at leav-Ing. The Governor-General and Lady Isaacs have gone to their home, at Mount Macedon, Victoria.
This has been in preparation for the moving to Canberra of Baron Gowrie of Canberra in the Commonwealth of Australia, the new Governor-General, who until recently, as the Hon, Sir Alexander Here Ruthven, was Governor of New South Wales.
Tu selecting his designation, upon the conferment upon him of a Barony of the United Kingdom, Lord Gowrie has fulfilled a triple purpose. He has gracious tribute to Australia.
has revived a family name that has been dormant for more than 300 years, and, thirdly, ho has again linked the Ruthvens with the an-dent and historic family castle of Dirleton.
To Australians, the choice of "Canberra in the Commonwealth of Australia" Is a. gracious compliment, for it is the frst occasion as far as is ksiown on which a hereditary Imperial peerage has been permanently Tinked with the Commonwealth, the fille of Lord Forrest of Bunbury having died with its first possessor.
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