NEW ZEALAND’S CENTENARY
INVITATION TO VISITING DELEGATES
“OPEN HOUSE” TO BE KEPT
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* WELLINGTON. October 8. An invitation to the overseas delegates to the Congress of Chambers pt Commerce of the British Empire to return to- New Zealahtf for the centennial celebrations in 1940 was extended this afternoon by the Minister for Internal Affairs (the Hon. W. E. Parry). If the delegates could not.be ■present at that time, he said, they could help to make'the celebrations a success by recommending their priends to visit New Zealand in 1940, when New Zealanders would “keep- open house." ■ ■ , Mr Parry made some reference 'to New Zealand's political experiments, and also to the Maori race. Mr Parry referred to .New Zealand? accomplishments, particularly in sport, but also in literature and arts. .He paid that New Zealand in the past had made mistakes, some of which were obvious. It would be her duty, with her- coming-of-age in. 1940, to create a national spirit to rectify them, That snirit would not sunder the bonds Of Empire, but. would 'give Britain’ » grown-up family of vinie sons in place of a tribe of dependent children.'.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21907, 7 October 1936, Page 5
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