VICTORIA LEAGUE

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26221, 19 September 1950, Page 2

VICTORIA LEAGUE

CONFERENCE OPENS IN WELLINGTON The conference of the eight Victoria Leagues in New Zealand was opened by her Excellency Lady Freyberg at a reception in the Victorja League rooms Wellington, on Saturday night. Ladv Freyberg is patroness of the New Zealand leagues. There was an attendance of approximately 100, among whom were 23 delegates from the Victoria Leagues in Auckland, Poverty Bay, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Wellington, Marlborough, Christchurch, and Dunedin. The president of the Wellington Victoria League presided and welcomed Lady Freyberg. Her Excellency expressed appreciation of the work of the leagues in New Zealand and extended her congratulations to them. She referred to the hospitality to visitors that was given by the Victoria Leagues in England—something that had been unknown 50 years ago by visitors to the Mother Country. “Passive acceptance of things we stand for is not enough,” her Excellency continued, “we must spread the gospel of what we believe in and there is no better way of doing this than through the Victoria League. Through the true spirit of family loyalty this can be done—loyalty in all those things in which we have true belief and real allegiance. We must stand up and fight and not let foreign doctrines come among us.”