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Evening Star, Issue 21719, 14 May 1934, Page 8

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COMMONWEALTH GOODWILL MESSAGE OUR COMMON HERITAGE [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, May 14. The following message from the Commonwealth Prime Minister (Mr Lyons) lias been conveyed to the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr Forbes) by Mr Lane, manager of the Press Association : “ Australians have received with gratitude the goodwill message of the Prime Minister of New Zealand, which I hasten to reciprocate. We feel, in these troubled economic times, that we have much in common. Not only have we sprung from the same stock, but our forefathers, who pioneered out the respective countries for us, faced similar difficulties. They hewed for us homes out of the unfriendly bush, and they faced isolation and untold hardships. To-day we reap the benefits of their labours.

“But the world in which we live is vastly different from the world they knew. More complex troubles confront us, and the problems of New Zealand are, to a great extent, those of Australia. Modern transport, moving literally on the wings of speed, brings us ever closer, and I look forward confidently to greater intercourse between our countries, with increasing interchanges of visits by tourists, as well as by public men. , “ In the past our destinies have been largely along parallel lines. We have just commemorated Anzac, and in that word our two countries are linked eternally. I trust the comradeship of war will live long in the days of peace.”