DEMOCRATIC GENTLEMEN.

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 136, 27 March 1924, Page 8

DEMOCRATIC GENTLEMEN.

ADMIRAL'S TALK TO DUNEDIN BOYS. Duncdin. March 20. In the course of an address at the Otago Leys' High School at Gover-nor-General said that one of the best tilings be remembered having beard said of New Zealanders was by Admiral De Robwk, commanding at the Dardanelles, who when congratulating him on being associated with New Zealand, .said, that what struck him about the New Zealanders at Gallipoli was not only their courage, but their gentlemanliness. The same thing was said about them ju France —that behind the linos they were always gentlemen, courteous to women and children. He (Lord JellicoeJ would always impress upon the boys as a duty that they respect age and authority. Those were, the signs of gentlemen. Civility need not be mistaken for servility. In a young country there was a danger that people might be afraid to show respect for age and authority lest they might be taunted with not being de. mocratic. Well, democracy was a splendid thing, but there was no need to associate it with roughness or a want of courtesy or respect.