BOY MESSENGER TO PRIME MINISTER.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 179, 15 July 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

BOY MESSENGER TO PRIME MINISTER.

The unity of the British Empire is of paramount importance to its people. Th? growth of the Oversea Dominions should demonstrate effectively, even to the unthinking, that it Js only a comparatively short time when these offshoots from the parent stem will be powerful rations themselves. The object of statesmen should be to have a practical working' system in operation that will ensure the closer cohesion of all parts cf the Empire in the general interests of the whole. We should individually do something to create an active public opinion to attain this great goal. I therefore enpr. ss the hope that the readers of “ Answers ” will do their part in their respective callings to bring about this great desideratum. J. G. WABD.

SIR JOSEPH " ARIES MESSAGE ! TO LONDON ANSWERS.” * ‘C’ement .if Empire,” is a favourite ! theme with the Jit. Hon. Sir Joseph ‘ Ward. Bart. P.C., K.C.M.0., L.L.D.. ■ Prime Minister of New Zealand. * 'Stick to it.” has been Sir Joseph i Ward’s motto in life. Irish by parentage. Sir Joseph first ' saw the light in Australia, but he was only a child when his parents moved to 'Campbelltown, in the South Island ' cf New Z. aland. Of his schooldavs he said in the , course of a chat : ■‘They were brief, but happy. I was ; educated at a private school first, and ■ t ext at a State school. I was out in the world by the time I was twelve. M\- education, however, continued long after I had left school, for 1 attended ni'.'ht schools and classes for some six \ ears after I began work ” £l3d A YEAR AT FOURTEEN! Tho lad got his start in life as a telcgraph-l ov in the Postal and Telog,raph Department Sir W*rl is not fond of talking about himself, but as illustrating bow wages go in New Zealand tie delights to tell vou that his commencing salary was* £1 a week, while as a foiirtoen-yc ir-old telegraph-boy ho was getting £13(5 a Leaving tho telegraph s *rvie * at fourteen, he entered a big "store” o'

shop. He remained there three years, then became a railwayman, and soon after his twenty-first birthday young