MR CHURCHILL.
GREETINGS FROM AUCKLAND.
REPLIES READ AT MEETING
(Per Press Association).
AUCKLAND, December 1
Tribute to the Prime Minister of England (Mr Winston Churchill) on his 66th birthday, was paid on Saturday night at a public meeting in the Town Hall, from which cablegrams of greeting went sent to Mr Churchill in Maori and English. Special arrangements enabled replies from Mr Churchill to be received and read before the meeting ended.
At 9 pan. a telegraph messenger was conducted to the platform and delivered two replies from Mr Churchill. The cablegram to the citizens was in the following terms: “Pray convey to the people of Auckland my warm thanks for their message on -my birthday. - The. future of the whole world depends upon our victory, and if we all stand together in loyalty and courage I feel sure, it will be won.”
Mr Churchill’s reply to the message from the Maori people was as follows: “My warmest thanks to people of the Maori race. lam touched and honoured by the kindness and encouragement of the message they have sent me on my birthday from their far-off island home. I also saw a few weeks ago splendid Maori soldiers marching past on English soil, and eagerly awaiting a chance to strike at the invader, should he dare to come. The Treaty of Waitangi shows that justice and peace can be made to reign under the flag of freedom.”
The reading of the cablegrams was received with loud applause.
EMPIRE CONGRATULATIONS.
LONDON, November 30
It is understood 1 that the Prime Minister (Mr Churchill) spent his sixtysixth birthday to-day at work, but he hoped during the week-end to attend a, small family gathering, of whieh the youngest member will be his grandson, seven-weeks-old Winston 'Churchill, son of Mr Randolph Churchill. Congratulatory messages poured in to No. 10 Downing Street this morning from all parts of Britain and the Empire .
The Netherlands East Indies sent £35,000 as a birthday present for securing Spitfires.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 44, 2 December 1940, Page 7
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