WORTHY SERVICE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 153, 30 June 1945, Page 7

WORTHY SERVICE

THE PRIME MINISTER ADDRESS TO BE PRESENTED P.A. WELLINGTON, this day. An illuminated address, for which it is hoped to obtain 20,000 signatures, will be presented to the Prime Minister, Mr. Frasen at a civic reception to be given him in Wellington on July 10 by the Mayor. Mr. W. Appleton. The first signatories to the address are the Bishop of Wellington, the Right Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland, Monsignor Mcßae, on behalf of the Most Rev. Thomas O'Shea, Catholic Metropolitan of New Zealand, Mr. T. C. Brash, Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly, and the Rev. W. A, Burley, for the Methodist Church.

The text of the address is as follows: On the occasion of your return to New Zealand from the United Nations Conference on International Organisation at San Francisco in May and June, we, the citizens of Wellington and district, desire to place on record our warm appreciation of your most excellent work on behalf of all nations, great and small, in the historic effort to build a structure of world security against war and the causes of international conflict. From the beginning to the end of the deliberations at San Francisco, you were a consistent and outstanding exponent of statesmanship and led the New Zealand delegation with distinction to yourself and _ our country. You never faltered in your efforts to secure justice for all nations, your wisdom was clear, steady and impressive, and you fought for a principle with the same ardent thoroughness that has marked the achievements of our armed forces on land and sea and in the air against the brutal Axis enemies of freedom. We are proud of your service as the leader of New Zealand, and we are grateful for the universal influence of your tireless and unselfish work. You have won for our- country the esteem of the world- We shall always remember your service with gratitude. You have led us on from strength to strength . Your satisfaction, sir, will merge with ours in gratitude for the victory that has been the reward of loyalty, earnestness and unstinted effort. History will acclaim your record as worthy service for your country and the world."