DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP
GOVEKNOR AT WHANGAREL (Speaking at the civic welcome on his first visit to Whangarei and the far north, the Governor-General, Sir Chas. Eergusson, spoke of loyalty, appreciation of the duties of citizenship, and self-reliance, a-s the three main guides of citizenship. During the recent Imperial Conference they had seen the words equality, independence, and autonomy frequently used, and doubtless the principles laid down in respect to these were absolutely sound, but they were used in different degrees and sounded somewhat new to them. Not that they greatly affected New Zealand, because the Dominion was always at the back of the Mother Country, but tile present day link of Empire was one of common interest in mutual kinship, race tradition, and history. Children learned that every day, but in New Zealand, when she was more closely popubitod, now problems would confront her, and it was essential that these ideals should be kept up.
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Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 21 January 1927, Page 2
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155DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP Patea Mail, Volume XLVIII, 21 January 1927, Page 2
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