GREATEST SON OF WALES.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 187, 8 August 1921, Page 5

GREATEST SON OF WALES.

HUGHES ON LLOYD GEORGE. LONDON , , August 7. Mr. W. M. Hughes unveiled a statue of Mr. Lloyd George in Castle Square, Carnarvon, to-day. He said that in the statue of the greatest son of Wales he sa.v- gnahrined the spirit and genius of the Welsh race, its vicissitudes, sacrifices, and triumph?. }lr. Lloyd George stood as ho stood during the* war—comparting himself a≤ a leader worthy of a great nation in the roost critical'years of its history. Many critics would deny his claims to greatness, but they only said what their prototypes said of Pitt, Gladstone, Disraeli, and Lincoln. It was significant that he (Mr. Hughes) had travelled 12,000 miles to »it in the Council of the Empire under the presidency of a great Welshman. Wales was holding her own in these days. Natives of the once despised Principality were provinf capable of playing a prominent part in world affairs, not only in tr.e British Empire, but in the great Republic of the United States of America. Mr. Lloyd George was a great histork- figure. In an hour of desperate need Britain called for a man, and "he can? ■ and led use to safety." Mrs. Lloyd George unveiled a stained glass window at the Llansaintfiraid vil-fao-e church in memory of the mother of .Mr. W. 11. Hushes. She declared. "We are proud of Mr. Hughes, not only as a Welshman, but -as one of the greatest sons of the Empire." Mr. Hughes, who unveiled a war memorial window in the same church, said the ceremony was emblematic of the o-reat Empire. It was the same spirit throinrhout the Empire that sent n.en aCTOSS the ocean to France and to Palestine. L)r. Frodsham, formerly Rishop of North Queensland, dedicated both window 3 and N.Z. Cable.)