DOMINION AT WAR
ALL POSSIBLE AID TO
BRITAIN
LORD GALWAY'S MESSAGE
The following message has been sent by the Governor-General of New Zealand, Viscount Galway, to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs:— -
"With reference to the intimation just received that a state of war exists between the United Kingdom and Germany his Majesty's Government in New Zealand desire immediately to associate themselves with his Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom in honouring their pledged word. They entirely concur with the action taken which they regard as inevitably forced upon the British Commonwealth if the cause of justice, freedom, and democracy is to endure in this world. ' . "The existence of a state of war with Germany has accordingly been proclaimed in New Zealand and his Majesty's Government in New Zealand would be grateful if his Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom would take any steps that may be necessary to indicate to the German Government that his Majesty's Government in New Zealand associate themselves in this matter with the action taken by his Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. "The New* Zealand Government wish to offer to the British Government the fullest assurance of all possible support. They are convinced that the step that has been taken will meet with the approval of the people of this Dominion and they will give the fullest consideration in due course to any suggestion of the British Government as to the method or methods by which this Dominion can best, assist in the common cause." <
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1939, Page 11
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252DOMINION AT WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1939, Page 11
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