A MESSAGE TO NEW ZEALAND.
After the celebrations had concluded this morning Sir Joseph Ward gave to a Post reporter the following message to the people of New Zealand : — "To-day New Zealand celebrates tha first anniversary of its* birth as a Dominion, and the occasior I prompts an expression of what I bc- | lieve fills every heart — a sense' of national pride and thankfulness ; • thankfulness that * Providence has blessed this land bountifully in. climate, beauty, and natural wealth, and its people so widely with comfort, health, and happiness ; pride in the pioneers of the past, the work of whose brave hearts and strong arms, under high ideals, we now gratefully inherit ; pride also in the higher nationhood whiob we this day celebrate, and in the destiny that .lies before us as one of this fairest daughters of the Empire un- ' der the Southern Cross. "With this sense of gratitude am pride arising in our breasts, let us nob forget that national x greatness depends less upon Nature's bounties than upon the character and individual efforts of the people, and that if we all fulfil the glorious destiny opening before us, our Statehood as a Dominion must be ever broad>-based upon that personal do- ' minion over life and conduct which alone can make us worthy of the glorious position that assuredly wil' be attained."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 76, 26 September 1908, Page 5
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223A MESSAGE TO NEW ZEALAND. Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 76, 26 September 1908, Page 5
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