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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 4

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FROM TEE NEW ZEALAND PARADISE. GENERAL SIR lAN HAMuJbpS ' ':'" By Telegraph—Press Association. % Wellington, Last Night if* Asked by a. Poet reporter shortly be* fore his departure whether he tad *af il-% farewell message to give to the New ] M Zealand people and to the New army, General Sir lan Hamilton aaM 1m p$ ahtould be glad) to avail himself of tim ' 'S opportunity. • .'.-A "I think," he said, "New Zealand jr'l* an earthly .paradise, and all the peopto ■?■>£; have to do h to take the neoeeaary measures to exclude the serpents. TSvif ;3 will know befit what I mean by that ','."' and there is really little more," he said. ;\ "thwc done over 3000 mU» in JT«w Zealand itself, and much of the wonder-.< ,%1 ful kindness I have received I have ban & able to trace Iback to my comrades of '"% the South 'African war. It is .they w»4 -9 have taken the lead in etrewrag my at- * duous path with roses of welcome. T», i * them I would now wish to . ( *' pay mv small ,tribut« of grateful n- , -j cognition. As to tbe New Zealand ■** a-rmy," concluded the General, "they will '/ <proibably sec my report in due coraw. I and I 'hope they 'will realise when they , do that I itried to live up to their re- . •sated exhortations to) me to ejpeak tie truUv and gnome the devil—only I aavn . triedi to do it nicely."