DOMINION’S VOW

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20034, 5 September 1939, Page 9

DOMINION’S VOW

STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY BRITISH INSTITUTIONS “WE WILL NOT GO DOWN” MR. SEMPLE’S APPEAL (Per Press Association.) ASHBURTON, this day. "We can say with one voice, one will, and one conviction that the British Government has done everyJiing possible to avert this tragedy,” cuid the Minister of Public Works, ;he Hon. R. Semple, addressing representatives of the Canterbury local oodies during an inspection of irriga,ion centres in the county “When the history of this bloody conflict is written, the British people must be held innocent.' The British Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, has done everything. He has ilmost humiliated himself in the cause of peace, but now the step has oeen taken, our duty is to make a .ow that if England goes down, we >o down with her. But I am confilent we will not go down, that justice wiil prevail and that tyrants will not oe tolerated.

“We do not live in the days of the jungle. We must do alt we can to perpetuate British institutions and British liberty.” At the main demonstration of public works machinery near Klondvke, betwen 400 and 500 were present.