CANADA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 5

CANADA

PRINCE OF WALES' TOUR

NEW ZEALAND'S MESSAGE OF GOODWILL.

BY CAELE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT

OTTAWA, Aug. 29. The Prince of Wales, replying to the Government welcome; said he hoped the Canadians would look upon him as a Canadian "whose duties kept him elsewhere," as the soldiers used to say in' France. His journey through the vast Dominion had undoubtedly raised his moral. The Prince added that unity of the Empire during'the settlement of the peace problems was the greatest guarantee for world peace.

(.BY TELRfiTiAP^—PRESS ASSOCIATION ) WELLINGTON. Aug. 31. The New Zealand Government has received a message stating that Canada desired to place in the corner stone of the new House of Parliament at Ottawa a peace year message of goodwill from each of the Dominions represented at the Peace Conference. In response to this request\ the following cable message has been sent by the Governor-General to' the GovernorGeneral of Canada:

1 "In connection with the laying of the corner stone of ■ the new Parliament buildings on September. 1 by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, I desire to associate myself, with, the' Government and people of New Zealand in; most heartily congratulating the senior Dominion of Canada on tlie splendid part played by its citizens and soldiers during the great war which has now happily come to ah' end, and in expressing our conviction that if at any time in the future it becomes necessary for the Empire, in defence of its honor, to draw the sword; Canada and the other self-governing, Dominions will stand together just as loyally and successfully as during the recent struggle for the rights of civilisation and humanity. God Save the King! May the Empire . siJand for ever!—(Signed) Liverpool."- . :