PEACE OF THE WORLD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1924, Page 9

PEACE OF THE WORLD.

RESTS ON BRITAIN. SIR C FERGUSSON FAREWELLED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Nov. 5, 1.10 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 4. F. O’Grady, the hew Governor of Tasmania, has been knighted. At the Colonial Institute luncheon to the New Zealand Governor-General (Sir Charles Fergusson) and the Tasmanian Governor (Sir F’. O’Grady), the chairman (Sir .T. Lagden) recalled Labour’s repudiation of the previous Government’s agreement with the Dominions, and hoped that never again could such a conference be rendered abortive and that a way would be found to avoid such, a risk in the future. .Never was there a time when the Empire stood more in need of being strongly united, both for its own preservation and the preservation of world peace. He declared -that one drop of a good New Zealander’s blood was worth all tlie blood of all the Bolshies. (Laughter and cheers.) Sir Charles Fergusson, responding to the toast, recalled arriving at Adelaide in 1868, travelling on a horsedrawn railway and admiring the redcoats outside Government House, and suggested that his military career dated therefrom. He proceeded in 1872 to New Zealand with his father, who explored the New Zealand Sounds and found himself unable to cast anchor. He further recalled that his father introduced trout into New Zealand froni his Scottish estate

Sir Charles Fergusson humourously anticipated as a fisherman to have, a cordial welcome from the trout. He quoted from a Scottish paper of 1872, eulogising the unflinching loyalty of New Zealanders in face of rebuffs and disappointments, the princely bearing of the natives, and the potentialities of .the country. He thought the same might be written to-day. He concluded by saying he believed that on the consolidation of the Empire depended the peatie and security of the world. The prospect of an honourable connection for five years with New Zealand was extremely pleasing. (Cheers.) Sir F. O’Grady said he expected to make mistakes, but he hoped to keep up the office with dignity and honour to the King. It would he a novel experience for an Irishman not to be able to fight (Laughter.) He hoped with --his thirty-five years’ experience of Labour questions to he able, to assist the people of Tasmania. He stated that he would sail on November 25, he believed with the good wishes of the whole of the oeople of Britain (Cheers.)