MESSAGE FROM KING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22314, 26 April 1947, Page 4

MESSAGE FROM KING

TASK OF RECONSTRUCTION (P.A.) AUCKLAND, April 26. The following Anzac Day message from the King was read by the Governor-General, Sir Bernard Freyberg, at the 11 o’clock ceremony at the Cenotaph in the Auckland Domain: — , “On Anzac Day the Queen and I join with our peoples in Australia and New Zealand in commemoration of the cause of freedom. The end of hostilities has not brought with it any lessening of the efforts needed in order to build a new world amid the devastation and confusion which the war has left in its train, “May (he valour and devotion of those of whom we think to-day be an ever-present inspiration to all who have to face the manifold problems of peace.” The Governor-General has sent the following reply to the King:— “Your Majesty’s gracious message has been communicated to the peoples of New Zealand, its island territories and Western Samoa, who are keenly sensible of Your Majesties’ association with them in their observance of Anzac Day. “On their behalf I beg to tender grateful thanks to Your Majesties and a renewed assurance of their unswerving allegiance to Your Majesty and the Throne. They take this opportunity of expressing their determination to uphold the traditions of Anzac, and to play their full part as a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations in the task of reconstruction which now faces the world.” \