TO PARLIAMENT.
Welcome, ye senators of these fair Isles, Who come to make reforms and mend our laws; Listen perchance to Ministerial wiles, But never compromise the people’s cause. Great is your task, your daily labour great— On you depends in large degree our wealth, The building of an ever-growing State, Our social order, liberties and health. First seek the freest settlement of land, By roads and railways bring the people near To port and market, produce in their hand, To sell and buy, and cultivate good cheer. Finance and banking take their proper places: Credit is shy, of too much paper ’ware. Respect the welfare of the native race, Both for their lands for their children care. Wide is the range, and if your aims are ti*ue, You help to raise a noble commonwealth, A virtuous people mse and honour you. Enlightened, sober and of vigorous health. Favoured our land by climate, soil and race, To use heaven’s gifts endeavour all yon can; ’Mong British lands we then shall hold the place Which we have gained—New Zealand in the van. —— July 3, 1903,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1636, 8 July 1903, Page 32
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184TO PARLIAMENT. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1636, 8 July 1903, Page 32
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