GREAT FUTURE

Northern Advocate, 23 May 1928, Page 5

GREAT FUTURE

NEW ZEALAND’S STATUS

.PRINCE’S PANEGYRIC.

(Australian Press Assn.—United Service.)

(Recdived 9 'sum.)

LONDON, May 21. The Prince >of Wales‘was the chief ; guest at the New Zealand Association’s annual dinner. There was an attendance of 400, 'including Mr L. C. Aniery, Earl Jellicoe, Lord Eustace Percy, Lord Kylsant, Sir Joseph Ward, the Hon. W. Pecmber Reeves, Sir Ernest Rutherford and; Sir Janies Mills.

Sir James Parr, presiding, contrasted the trades- balance of £2,500,000 last year with the present balance of •, £10,500,000.- Farmers in 1928 exported, mostly to Britain, £14,000,000 worth of compared with £7,000,000 last year. The Prince of Wales, responding to the toast of his health, said he had compared memories with the Duke of York. They agreed upon New Zealand’s great future. The presence of so mahy Empitre builders and Sir James Parr’s figures proved the needlessness of undue boasting. The Prince rejoiced that New Zealand cadets were now eligible for entry at the Sandhurst School, which was one of the military academies.

Mr Anncry predicted that New Zealand’s future in the Pacific would equal Britain's in the Atlantic.