MESSAGE FROM KING

Northern Advocate, 26 April 1948, Page 3

MESSAGE FROM KING

The following Anzae Day message from His Majesty the King was read by the Governor-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., at the 11 o’clock ceremony at the Cenotaph in the Auckland Domain yesterday: — “The Queen and I join on this Anzae Day with my people in Australia and New Zealand in grateful memory of those gallant and New Zealanders who, in two world wars of PAINTER. Mr Churchill has had three oil paintings accepted for the Royal Academy for 1943. The paintings have been entered undei his own name. They will be hung “on the line” (at eye level). One is entitled “Blenheim Tapestries.”

our time, gave their lives for justice and freedom. “To those of us who now mourn for them is entrusted the task of carrying on their great work for the peace of mankind. “Its success depends on the endeavours of each one of us. on our faith and on our resolution. Therefore, though the way may seem long and the difficulties great, let us not falter or be lacking in courage." His Excellency has sent the following reply to the King. “The Government and peoples of New Zealand, its Island Territories and Western Samoa, to whom Your Majesty’s gracious message has been communicated, appreciate most deeply the knowledge that the thoughts of Your Majesty and the Queen are with them in their observance ■of Anzac Day. “They desire to take this opportunity of reaffirming their unswerving allegiance to Your Majesty and the Throne, and of expressing their determination to play their full part in the maintenance of peace throughout the world.” LORD BIRDWOOD The following message from Lord Birdwood of Anzac has been received by the Prime Minister:— '■'Once more I have the privilege of conveying to my* old comrades of the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force and to the people of New Zealand my heartiest greetings and best of good wishes for the present and for many years to come." SIR PATRICK DUFF “In my person the old 29th Division greets the Anzac living and salutes the Anzac dead.” said Sir Patrick Duff. United Kingdom High Commissioner, in an impressive address at the observance of Anzac Day. Sir Patrick, in a vivid word picture, depicted the Cape Helles battle in the last week of April, 1915, when the 29th Division and the Anzacs further north were clinging to the slopes, and until the memorable final evacuation scenes. Since then, he said, another war had been fought by a new generation, whose courage and constancy were unsurpassed.