MESSAGE TO KING
Loyalty And Devotion
(N.Z.P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 16. His Excellency the Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newall) has dispatched the following message to the King:—“On this day • which marks the unconditional surrender of Japan and the end of the world conflict, the Government and peoples of New Zealand, its island territories and Western Samoa, join with your Majesty’s subjects throughout the world in thanksgiving and rejoicing that the war which has raged for so long has ended in signal victory to Allied arms.
“In a spirit of deepest gratitude they thank God that your Majesties have been preserved throughout those critical years when overwhelming disaster threatened to engulf the whole world, and that peace reigns once more.
“They reaffirm their loyalty and devotion to vour Majesty's person and the Throne.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23281, 17 August 1945, Page 4
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130MESSAGE TO KING Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23281, 17 August 1945, Page 4
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