Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1961Vol. XXXII, No. 2

Lord Cobham On Tour

p. 20 · Read in the full issue

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Viscount Cobham, Governor-General of New Zealand, stands on the dock at Suva in August as officers and men of HMNZS “Royalist” cheer him at the end of his South Pacific tour. Lord Cobham can be identified as the figure without the hat. With Lady Cobham he visited Tonga, West Samoa, Pago Pago, and the Cook Islands aboard the “Royalist”, and left the ship in Suva to fly back to NZ. His visit to Suva was treated as informal but he was given official welcomes everywhere else. The visit took three weeks during which the vessel covered 3,000 miles. In Apia Lord Cobham conducted the first in vestiture ever on the island by an NZ Governor-General when several hundred people saw Lamamea Matatumua receive the OBE and Papalii P. F. Asiata receive the MBE.

Photo: Rob Wright

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