ELOQUENT MESSAGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 123, 26 April 1937, Page 8

ELOQUENT MESSAGE.

FROM MR W. M. HUGHES

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 2d. A cablegram front lit. Hon. W. M. Himhes, wartime Prime Minister ot Australia, to the Australian Imperial Forces’ Association. Wellington, was read at the Anzac dinner on Saturday by tlie president, Sir J. Payne. -The message is as follows; “On behalf of the Government and people of Australia send you most cordial greetings and good wishes. The peoples of New Zealand and Australia, hound inseparably by ties of race, tradition, and common interests, are by the glorious name of Anzac united forevcr”in brotherhood and comradeship. To you as to us this day stands for great tilings, for suffering, sacrifice, and death, for great hardships long drawn-out. for reverses bravely sustained, for nerve-shattering trials, for unwavering courage, for abiding faith, and for victory triumphant and glorious. As we how our heads at tlie shrine of the fallen and express admiration and gratitude to them and their comrades who came hack, many eruellv maimed and shattered by wounds anti disease, our pulses leap in our veins and our hearts swell with pride at their deeds, and our eyes fill with tears as we think of the price they paid for victory. In their lives and by their death they set a noble example. Let us vow as we stand before their shrine to emulate their deeds and prove ourselves worthy of their valour and sacrifice.”