KING'S SACRIFICE.
LORD BLEDISLOE'S TRIBUTE. " MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE." The offer of the King to make a personal sacrifice in the present financial emergency was referred to by the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, when proposing the toast of His Majesty at the Wellington Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Association smoke concert last Friday evening. " On ordinary occasions," His Excellency said, "it suffices among loyal Britishers to submit without comment the toast of His Majesty the' King, and in departing this evening from that salutary custom I am going to venture to hope that my doing 10 will not create a precedent in a different direction. I fancy you will agree with me that on this occasion it would not be improper to add a few words in submitting the loyal toast. " His Majesty, it is no exaggeration to say, is an ideal Sovereign," His Excellency said. " There is no more unselfish patriot than His Majesty the King, na one who sets a finer example of rectitude of life, and no monarch more deservedly beloved or more prudent and far-sighted in studying the highest interests of his subjects. " The latest illustration of his selfdenial is characteristic of the great man that he really is. Figures are somewhat misleading in this connection. But as those of us who know something of bis domestic life can testify, there is no one in a similar position who lives s> life of greater simplicity than His Majesty the King. I may add this, further, that as myself an old counsellor of His Majesty's Duchy of Lancaster, I can assure you His Majesty's actual income, after all the requirements of his staff and household and the necessary embellished enviroment that kingship demands have been satisfied, is far less than that of many leading industrial and commercial men in this Dominion. " We cannot on such an occasion as this do more than pay our humble tribute to the magnificent example in a tim» of national and imperial crisis that our great Sovereign has set us, I give you his health."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20978, 15 September 1931, Page 10
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