EMPIR2E DAY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19807, 24 May 1934, Page 8

EMPIR2E DAY

MESSAGE FROM EARL JELLICOE WORLD PEACE AND PROSPERITY By Telegraph— Association WELLINGTON. May 23. “It is my privilege, as President of the Empire Day Movement, once again to send a message of warmest greeting to all parts of His Majesty’s Dominions,” says Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe, president of the Empire Day movement, in a message received by His Excellency, the Governor General, Lord Bledisloe. “In doing so this year, it is with very real pleasure that I note the change that has taken place during the last 12 months in the economic situation—a change which has resulted in a steady improvement in trade and a gradual .but sure diminution in the figures of unemployment, the problem which has been the cause of such anxiety during the last few years, and which has given rise to so much distress. “The road to our old prosperity may still be long, but the spirit which has enabled our people throughout the Empire to overcome the formidable difficulties which confronted us two years ago will unquestionably remain to enable us to meet any troubles yet before us. Unity, comradeship and sympathy between the people who compose our great Empire are, and ever will be, essential to its strength and prosperity. “The well-being and happiness of 493 million people depend upon Empire prosperity, and undoubtedly the peace of the world is largely affected by the influence which the Empire can exert upon international problems. For this influence our combined strength is necessary. “The Empire Day Movement exists to impress upon the people of the Empire their responsibility in these matters. “May this Empire Day be celebrated with one thought in each mind: that our Empire, with God’s blessing, shall grow 'stronger and stronger in the cause of \Vorld peace and prosperity.”

HOPE THAT CLOUDS WILL LIFT

GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S MESSAGE. By Telegraph —Press Association AUCKLAND. May 23. The following message to the people of New Zealand has been issued by the Governor-General: —• “This being Empire Day, I desire to extend a friendly greeting to his Majesty’s subjects of both races in this Dominion and to express an earnest hope that the clouds of industrial depression which for the last three years have hung like a pall over New Zealand in common with other parts of the Empire may, during the next twelve months, give place to the sunshine of economic prosperity and fresh hope and confidence. That the Dominion has weathered the economic blizzard as well as she has is due in no small degree to the courage, patience and mutual helpfulness of her virile population of all classes. If the British Empire is to preserve her strength and her immeasurable power for promoting peace and prosperity throughout the world, these qualities must be maintained in the less stressful days which appear to lie ahead of us both within our own national borders and within those of our more extensive Imperial heritage. "The stability and influence of the British Empire depend largely upon the sense of comradeship, consciousness of identity of interest and mutual sympathy existing between its several parts, and especially between the Dominions and the mother country. Imperial solidarity is of the very essence of Empire prosperity, so on Empire Day let us each and all remember the obligation which rests upon us to do our utmost to promote it and thus, with God’s blessing, to advance the welfare of mankind.”