LOYAL NEW ZEALAND

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 March 1928, Page 7

LOYAL NEW ZEALAND

♦ STUDY UE CHANAK CIMoIS. HAUL JELLICOE S KEMINISOENOEto. At the •'New Zealand" luncheon, arranged by its active Overseas fcjee- " tion, Admit al of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe, e.»-Governor-vJenei al of the Dominion, and the Countess Jellicoe, were the chief guests oi the Forum Club in London recently. 'their health was proposed uy J.ady Samuel N\ iison. wife of the Permanent Under-Secretary of tale for the Dominions, who presided. , Earl Jellicoe, m reply. spoke oa • loyalty to the Li own and Empire as i the outstanding characteristic oi the - people of New Zealand. On three I notable occasions—the South African ; W ar, the Great- W ar, and. at the time I of the Chanak tr.ouhle —New Zealand had supported the- Mother Country, and she took pride in her endeavour i to be lir-st jn-the held. He remem- • tered receiving, during his term oi • oiliee in New /.ealand. what was known as the •‘Chanak telegram.." sent by ; tie crime Minister ot this country, a.s.iing whether the Dominions were prepared to help hy military assistance in the event -of trouble with i urhey. it readied him at hall-past eight in the evening- I here happened to be a reception at Government House at pine, and when the late Mr. Mussev, the revered Prime Minister o-. New Zealand at that tune, arrived, lie. as the Governor-General, asked him to call a Cabinet meeting in his own room. Mi' Massey did so. and at half-past nine a telegram, saying tl at New Zealand would certainly do her utmost to help the Mother Country. was being coded for dispatch to the Prime Minister of England. (( beers.) Commending New Zealand .s care for war sufferers, I tar I Jellicoe referred to the scheme of the sheep owners, whereby the orphans of British seamen are trained and settled in the Dominion, as one of the finest of the kind ever set on foot. The Dominion had had its bad time recently, having suffered in common with the rest of the Empire from tiie results of the coal strike. Hut it seemed that the corner Jmtl been turned. Wool prices were going up, and lie thought one could look forward optimistically to the future. Nc" Zealand was one of Great Britain s best- customers, and we ought to do everything we could in return to assist her prosperity; Anybody who ate Danish instead of New /.< aland butter ought, for example, to be shot. i.,a lgliter and cheers.) Miss M. Baxter described the striking progress being made by the Overseas Section, under the presidency and inspiration of Princess Marie Louise, in its efforts to provide a rallying point for women living in the outposts of the Empire. Sir James Parr (High Commissioner for New Zealand) said that a succession or excellent G-overnors-General. had contributed largely towards the | loyal feeling in the Dominion.