TORONTO EXHIBITION
AN EMPIRE MESSAGE
REPLY BY MR. SAVAGE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. ( While Lord Stanley, British Secretary of State for the Dominions, was speaking at the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition, at Toronto at midday today, a message to ail parts of the Empire, represented at the Exhibition, was flashed round the world as follows:—"On the eve of the opening of the Sixtieth Canadian National Exhibition I wish to convey my cordial greetings to the Governments represented at the Exhibition and through them to the-people whose energy and industry are so worthily demonstrated by the products exhibited here. I am honoured by the privilege of opening the buildings in which these products are displayed." It is signed "Stanley."
A reply by the Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, is as follows:—"New Zealand reciprocates your greetings and wishes to congratulate the Canadian National Exhibition authorities on their diamond jubilee. This Exhibition promotes closer co-operation between the units of the Empire."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 11
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