EXAMPLE OF MOTHERS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 7, 8 July 1931, Page 9

EXAMPLE OF MOTHERS

STANDARD OF JUDGMENT

"Of all the strange requests that I havo received in my public life the strangest is that I should address a League of Mothers," said His Excellency the Governor-General Lord Bledisloe, when addressing the meeting of the League'of Mothers in< tho Town Hall yesterday afternoon. "I am not a mother and by no possible process could I ever become one. What claim have Ito speak to mothers? If I have any claim,at all it is baaed on what I owe to my own mother. Iv a worldly sense I owe her nothing. She came of an old Scottish stock which was not blessed (or shall I say cursed) with this world's riches. But all that I prize the most in life is a heritage from her. Even now, although she died "years ago, 'I find myself judging human conduct and human aspirations from the standpoint of what she would have considered right—a standpoint identical with that of your Dominion president, and, I beUeve also, of your deeply and justly respected foundress, Lady Alice sPergusson v In any case, however incongruous my presence or inappropriate my words.may,be I am delighted to join my wife in meeting this afternoon the members of the League of Mothers, if only as a tribute to the work—evident in so many directions- —of Lady Alice in setting before the women—the incomparable women—of New Zealand such high ideals of service and the realisation of what their pursuit, as well as their attainment, means to the whole future of the British Empire's most English Dominion."' >:'■' /.' ' .