INDEPENDENCE DAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22463, 6 July 1936, Page 12

INDEPENDENCE DAY

AUCKLAND GATHERING CONSULAR LUNCHEON HELD ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS Members of tlio Consular Corps in Auckland, representatives of the judiciary, the Church and commercial and local associations, as well as resident Americans, were guests of Mr. Walter F. Boyle, the United States Consul, and Mrs. Boyle, at the Milne and Choyce Reception Hall on Saturday at a luncheon given to celebrate the 160 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. During the luncheon an orchestra played traditional American airs. Miss •Janet Woods sang two songs characteristic of the country. Miss Charlene Woods signalled the close of the programme hv playing the American and British National Anthems on the piano. in the unavoidable absence through illness of tlie Mayor of Auckland, Mr. Ernest Davis, the city was represented by the Hon. Bernard Martin, M.L.C., deptitv-niayor, who said New Zealand was interested in the experiments President Roosevelt was conducting in America. With thoso being tried in the Dominion lie felt the two countries were being courageous enough to launch out with new ideas in an effort to solve the problems with which they were confronted. Consul's Pending Departure Aucklanders would be sorry when Mr. and Mrs. Boyle had gone from tho city, said Mr. Martin, as they would have done before the celebration of Independence Day next year. They would take with them tlio sincere good wishes of Auckland people. Mr. W. J. Jordan, M.P., who is to be the now High Commissioner in London, said America and New Zealand had much in common. He believed the spirit of goodfellowship and comity would in time spread all over the world.

In acknowledging expressions of friendship for herself and Mr. Boyle Mrs. Boyle said that in anticipation of a long-looked-for holiday she and her husband had said they were going home. On reflection she wondered whether homo did not embrace a greater boundary than it did when they came to New Zealand 11 years ago. She believed they would long to return to their Antipodean home. Policy of Good Neighbour,,

"On the fourth of July—a friendly gathering," said Mr. Boyle. "I like to recall that our President has set as his guide for our association in the great family of nations the policy of the good neighbour." There were many good neighbours, speaking many different tongues, and many of tlio nations were quietly carrying on the best of democratic institutions, in spite of world unrest and the springing up of one-man Governments.

It might Ixj well to bear witness that the English-speaking nations had lived as good neighbours for many years. It had been shown time and again that the knotty problems which arose between great industrial and. commercial peoples might bo settled by negotiation and compromise. It had been shown that revolution may bo by the ballot rather than the bayonet.