COLONIAL SECRETARY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 18 February 1921, Page 8

COLONIAL SECRETARY

MESSAGE TO MR MASSEY

CORDIAL GREETINGS

(BY TELFHIHrH— PKFSS ASSOCIATION^ GREYMOUTH, Feb. 17. • Mr Massey, at a public welcome tonight, read the following telegram from the Governor-General: I have today received the following telegram from Mr Winston Churchill: ''The following message is for your Prime Minister :

'I have to-day, received from His Majesty the seaTs of the Colonial Office, and as my first act in my newcapacity I desire to send you my most cordial greetings, and to express the earnest hope tnat in close co-operation with yourself and other statesmen of the oversea Dominions I may be successful in drawing still closerythe bonds that unite us and contribute to the solution of the urgent problems of the Empire with' which we are now confronted. I look'forward to meeting you in Jun§,—(Signed) Winston Churchill.'" • ■ ■'

• Mr ]Vlassey stated he had forwarded a reply as follows: "I have .received Your Excellency's telegram forwarding a message from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and I shall be grateful if you will be so good as to transmit from me the following reply: 'I thank you most heartily for, your kind message transmitted through His Excellency the Governor-General. In reply I desire to express "to you, upon yourr" assumption of the seals of the Colonial Office, the corigratulations of the Government and people of New Zealand, and to reciprocate very warmly the cordial greetings contained in your telegram. I shall at all times be most pleased,, along with other representatives of the self-governing Dominions, to join with you in everything which will make stronger the ties uniting the countries of the Empire more closely together, and ajso in assisting to the-best of my ability to solve the many serious problems which it is necessary to deal with, not only at the sittings of the Imperial Conference, but also during the periods between the meetings of the Empire's representatives in London. I convey to you the good wishes of New Zealand in your new and important office.—W.. F. Massey.' "