WELLINGTON GIRLS' COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 28, 27 October 1932, Page 4

WELLINGTON GIRLS' COLLEGE

Address by

Sir J. Parr

Sir James Parr gave an address to the senior students of AVellington Girls’ College on Tuesday afternoon. Taking as his theme some of the outstanding personalities of the English House of Commons, he first aroused the interest of his audience by describing a walk . from the New Zealand High Commls-1 sioner’s Office to the House, of Commons. AVith deft touch the lecturer introduced ai)propriate history. He described the House of Commons, with its beautiful stained glass windows casting a lovely mellow light, the irou grille behind which women visitors sat, the Aface, and the dignity and quiet effectiveness of the Speaker. Sir Janies gave a vivid account of Lloyd George—short, rotund, with ieonino head, hurling thunderbolts of invective at his political enemy and erstwhile colleague—Winston Churchill; of AVinstou Churchill, the descendant of the great Duke of Afarlborough, calmly pulverising his arguments ; of Stanley Baldwin, the cousin of Rudyard Kipling, less brilliant perhaps, than the other two, but nevertheless with an occasional poetical strain running through his speeches; of Ramsay AlacDonald, tall, handsome, brown-eyed and benign, the man in whom the House of Commons, nay in whom all England, was putting its trust.

In conclusion, Sir James pointed out that though it behoved New Zealanders to develop a national individuality in accordance with their own environment. still, at the same time, the wonderful achievements of England, mother of nations, should always call forth from all true New Zealanders the deepest veneration, love and loyalty.