SPIRIT OF NEW ZEALAND.

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 91, 18 April 1932, Page 8

SPIRIT OF NEW ZEALAND.

The Prime Minister (the Eight Hon. G._W. Forbes) said, that he felt highly privileged to stand on the platform as the representative of the Government of New Zealand, charged with the duty of handing over the deeds of the land on which the noble memorial stood. All might.be proud that tho citizens of Wellington had erected such a beautiful memorial as that which graced the site, a memorial which would be an inspiration to the people of Wellington and of all New Zealand for all time, emblematic as it was of the sacrifice and the courage and determination that inspired the soldiers who went from Wellington and from all New Zealand; Those men had set indeed ..a, high standard in courage, in bravo endurance of the hardships and miseries of the Great War, in the splendid spirit in which they faced their tasks in the days, and weeks, and years in the trenches. If there was one quality which made for the strength, of a nation-it was the quality of dogged, determination' to see things^ through to 'the finish; but those qualities of courage, endurance, and dogged • determination which were shown by New .Zealanders at the front Tvere not peculiar to soldiers from this country;1 they .vyero characteristic and national, and: itf'this period of trouble and depression he was confident that the people of New Zealand would again show those Bplendid qualities and see things through to a successful conclusion. . ■ ■• "I- have," said Mr. Forbes,; "every confidence in the people of New Zealand." - \ The Prime Minister then handed to the Mayor the deeds of the'memorial site. , .