MESSAGE FROM SIR JOSEPH WARD.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 287, 8 June 1909, Page 5

MESSAGE FROM SIR JOSEPH WARD.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION, j WELLINGTON, to-day. In responso to the invitation of the editors of the London Standard and London Chronicle, Sir Joseph W7ard ha 6 sent a congratulotory^oblegram regarding the opening of the Press Conference. He stated that New Zea-, land recognised the immense importance of the conference which would make powerfidly for the better under-r standing of the mutual interest of the Motherland and the oversea dominions, by helping to establish an improved and permanent basis for true Imperialism. The opening of ! the conference was another porton-1 ous mark of the ever -increasing solid-' arity of the Empire, ,and ho believed the conference would result in the effective co-operation of the press throughout, all oversea dominions in the, cause of true Imperialism, and in all great movements .which- make to that end.