CUSTODIAN OF LIBERTY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19335, 27 May 1937, Page 9

CUSTODIAN OF LIBERTY

BRITISH EMPIRE SWAY VIEW OF MR. SEMPEE (Herald Special Kcporter.) TR ABAIiOA. this day. Settlors yesterday entertained the Minister of Public Works, the Hon. R. Sample, ;it dinner nt the hotel nnd the iarge dining-room was filled. Mr.. CMV. Cowan, who presided, proposed t.ln> toast, to Mr. Scmplo. Other toasts were given by Mr. IT. K. Ilovnll, Mr. 0. A. Thompson and Dr. Wi Hiepa. Mr. Tliompson said that Mr. A. 0. tlullquist, the member for the Hay »1 Plenty, was the greatest "bill! of energy' to enter the Bav of Plenty. Mr. Sample ".said that the British commonwealth to-day represented liho safety zone for democracy and the world. Anything might happen in the present inciting mass in the world to-day. He did not wish to be a scaremonger, but ho had studied nations in the making and said that civilisation was sitting on the edge of a volcano. '•lf this turmoil comes and countries are thrown into conflict and the Britisn Empire goes down, (!od help civilisation." said Mr. Semple, Britain was the watchvog and custodian 'of liberty. With all her faults she was the brightest spot on '(.oil's earth. The British people were the masters of their own destiny, and unless each and all did their best' to build the castle of the Empire with every brick at their disposal they would be committing treason to posterity.