MR MASSEY'S SPEECHES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 884, 9 December 1916, Page 2

MR MASSEY'S SPEECHES.

SOME CORRECTIONS. Piers Association. WELLINGTON, December 8. The Hon. J. Allen has received the following cablegram from the Bight 1 Hon. W. F. Massey:—"ln the New Zealand papers received containing l condensed reports of my speeches and interviews, I regret' to notice some serious mistakes. For' instance, a Press Association telegram dated' Oclober 21st'appears to have con-' fused soldiers' land settlement with immigration. The printed report, here makes me say correctly with' regard lo land settlement: 'The New Zealand soldiers must come first, but that we shall welcome British immigrants goes without saying, and I will add, 1 know of no country in the world where industrious men and, women would have less difficulty in making homes for themselves than in New Zealand.

"Secondly, the Press telegram dated October 26th, giving my message to the Pilgrims Club, should read: 'Stand fast, men of Britain, stand fast for the honour of the race, the glory of the flag, and the welfare of humanity.''' • < ■