ANZACS ENTERTAINED

Nelson Evening Mail, 1 May 1916, Page 7

ANZACS ENTERTAINED

SPEECHES BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE PHEMIER.

(United Pbbss .Association.)

WELLINGTON, April 30.

Returned' Anzacsvw.ere .last-ought 1 tendered a dinner by the local branch of the Patriotic Society, to commemor.ite the Gallipoli landing. The Town Hall was decorated, and' there was a good muster of soldiers. The Chief Justice, Premier, and.-: military chiefs were also present. Mr T. M. Wilford-, M.P., presided. •In, proposing the toast of-;" The Emp'ire's cause,'' Sir Robert Stout said tha* Britain'sf greatness was by the manner in which her colonisation hadV spread oyer the world, so that the English -language, fwas spipken; in. every quarter. She also encouraged nobility of sentiment amongst the people* : and- made history r .<whereof ;; they mightlieel .proud. evening they were celebrating one of the greatest pages of that history. • Mr Massey,,: replying to the toast, congratulatedi the<* returned: mien, - and hoped they would be able to partake in the final victory and live to enjoy many years, o$ >.prospeiity,i It would be well it the past .-few days' celebrations proved an incentive to other young men to come forward and, serve, in. ,the,army\ There had been some-hanging-vback, and there should: have been none. 1 Germany was evidently going to make .a. determined sfcrdggle,' arid'-we must, all our citizens must exercise a determination! and haing on until it was made impossible for Germany to. repeat her. .performances of thei'lflst two years.< -'* ■"(•••. . >•■ :>