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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 63, 14 March 1924, Page 4

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CONVENT SCHOOL INCIDENT. DIDN'T KNOW THE NATIONAL AHTH_M. C, 0 VERNOR-G E-VE X A [AS SHAR P REPRIMAND. (By Tclegrarh.— -sso.'iaiion.) GHEVMOI TH. this day. "I am the representative of lis Majesty the. King, and I "ill n.j; have bini insulted." These words were em phatically spoken at Hunan.a by the Governor-General (Viscount .leir.ee). A good memory is one of the characteristics of his Excellency and his arrival at Runanga yesterday itvApl impressions of his previous visit, made in April, 1921, to the convent school. On that occasion he noticed that the National Anthem was not sung, and i.c did not forpet the fact. When the party reached the mmmi township on YYednesd.iv morning his 'Excellency inquired whether the National Anthem was to be honoured at the convent school, a visit to which was on his programme for the day. If it were not to lie sung he did nut intend to go to the school. The G-Vernor-General'.* ultimatum resulted in a messenger being dispatched to the convent school to make inquiries He was. it is understood, inlormed there that "('od Defend New Zealand would be sung, but not tbe National Anthem. The children had not been taught to sing the National Anthem, and it was doubtful in any case whether they knew it. The return and report of the messenger was followed by the Governor-ticneral making ti:c remark previously quoted. Tbe attitude of the authorities at Runanga convent school was in di:ect contrast to that adopted by those at the Groymouth convent and the Marist Brothers" srhools, where the National Anthem was heartily sun; by pupils immediately the Governor-General arrived.