FAREWELL MESSAGE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 10

FAREWELL MESSAGE

Mr. Amery delivered his farewell message to New Zealand at the broadcasting station 2YA last evening X am more than satisfied with my visit to New Zealand," ho said "It has been short, all too ehort. Still, through tho kindness of your Government I have beeu afforded every opportunity for making the very fullest use of my time. I have seen something not only of your chief cities, but ot almost every part of your two islands, and I shall go away with a far clearer idea than I had when I came here both of the great developments you have already achieved and also of the groat progress which I know is still to come, the great possibilities of the fostering of mutual trade between Great Britain and New Zealand, of the practical limitations to the further ■development of immigration from Great Britain to this country of the type of men and women willing and capable to take up productive work here, and in doing so play their part in keeping up the volume of employment and standard of living in New Zealand." "I have enjoyed every minute of my stay in New Zealand. I shall leave in a few days with a sense of joy of my visit to New Zealand, a sense of confidence in her future, not oniy in her material future, but in what the character of her people, the high standard of education, and the ideals they hold so dear will enable New Zealand to achieve in the years before her. ''Above all, I shall leave New Zealand on my journey homewards with a feeling that from the first day to the last I have been at home, at home in every sense of the word. Here, and everywhere else, I have been received, not as a stranger but as a fellow-citi-zen and fellow-worker in a common cause. Here and elsewhere in the Dominion I found myself under tho same flag, among men speaking the same language, living under the same institutions, cherishing the same ideas, holding the same loyalty to the Throne. Nowhere have these feelings been more intense than in New Zealand. I hope to visit New Zealand again to meet old friends, old colleagues, ajnd, in every sense of the word, to come ana find niyself at homo among you." Mr. Amery and party left this morning for the Wairarapa, Hastings, Napier, Taupo, Rotorua, and Auckland.