LORD CRAIGAVON.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19941, 30 May 1930, Page 11

LORD CRAIGAVON.

NEW ZEALAND TOUR. MESSAGE TO ULSTER. (FEOM OTTB OWS COBBKSPOHDSBT.) LONDON, April 24. Lord Craigavon addressed the people of Ulster last week through the Belfast studio of the British Broadcasting Corporation. He referred to his recent tour of New Zealand and Australia, and said that the dearest hope of the Ulster people he met abroad was for the advancement and increased prosperity of the people of Northern Ireland.

"An ambition of my lifetime has now been accomplished," said Lord Craigavon, "and the outstanding thought in relation to it u> one of pride, that I should have been able to travel by a British steamer to the farthest away inhabited land upon this globe, and find the Onion Jack flying as proudly in 'New Ulster' is it docs to-day in Old Ulster. You probably know that the North Island of New Zealand was originally called New ■Ulster."

Having referred to the passionate loyalty of these far-off members of the British family, the Prime Minister declared: "It would almost seem that distance actually lends intensity to their love of Great Britain and the Empire.

"A constant sourco of interest was meeting with those so closely associated with this Homeland. I found myself

welcomed by innumerable people because I was an outward Ebak lujtssia Ulster, the land of their fathers' «r their own birth, and the saw hoataa which they had succeeded in making isa these distant lands. Apart frost tike messages of affectionate rexnembnaee of which my wife and I axe the bearers to so many, there is oca common wish of each of our kinsmen overseas, that those who remain at home may prosper in all that ia best, and not least in the material things *? this life.

Empire Co-operation. "I enquired early on my retain of the work of the Ulster Industrie Development Association, which I had formed a year ago, to push Ulster goods. As I travelled through fa* vast Commonwealth of Australia, and the great Dominion of New Zealand, I was comforted to know that tike Ulster Industries Development AwioriaHea was in capable hands, working ia so selfish manner, but progressing along lines of close co-operation with Britain and the Dominions.

"In my travels I have come acmes many of onr kinsmen who, I am pleased to record, have done welL but I wis* this land of ours to he so prospers** that Ulster men and women will be able to remain in it, and share in its ever increasing prosperity and happleasa. X want the rising generation to fintl kern openings and opportunities, so that their minds will be filled from their caxtr days with thoughts of developing faaar manhood within Northern EndneV rather than, departing to seek ffcatr fortunes elsewhere, for I ess, ttttk cf no greater joy to tnenßtkexaetTOtts* | than that their en3dre& sbesJki |mefsr 1 within easy access et-taolr esm.aoss§s>'*i