Home Defence.

Thames Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 10167, 10 December 1906, Page 4

Home Defence.

In unveilingl a memorial at Dunedin on Thursday to menilbors of the Otago oontingents who lost their lives during* the.Boer war, Lord Plunket expressed sentiuient.s 1 \\ind\- shodd ap-| peal to jvll^'e^.Zealnnders who- have tlie' fut.ure welfare, of their country at heart- His Excellency said.: —''We pray aaid trust, tihat New Zealauid and thi>"E!mipire- may not again be involved is war,: but we cannot hide, from ourselvos that with all our boasted civilisation tihera has been as much, war during- the past hundred years as probably" ever before., Wlm.t, them, can we d'o'J All, I thiiik, we can do;is to warn the rising gen&ration ag-airist the honors und misery of war, but at the same ttino to point out to them again and aign.in that the old saying, 'the strong nun) armed keepeth his.castle' is time to-day jtist as. it i\-as true thousands of years? ago, and by inculcating: patriotism, by encouraging them to fake an interest in t.he Imperial Navy, Kew Zealand-born representative* of which uro amongst us here to-day, and by also i>i!eour«i!it»lr and supporting snir splendid .voluiilvors and cadets \vi:;i luive- Hindi' a "tii'inc Ux>: thcinsclvt-s all over th^.workl,. we shall ho accomp1 f!']n;\v •■ »rr:-\t de;"-l in -this direction. ] '\V-.- should iiki) ■lvnie-iubw tlvt in this jH-'iper we cM! l:.;st safeguard our! t'O-^-'i-v. cvr houses, and fh& trade.upi.n wiiH-1- we r&ly. In this way we <.*li-'H \» tt V-"t> i\t any rate to postpone <v-.- ;'-,-■ v.'».. - ;vr hx V w'zki he •,•<•■. bvj;>,i-v '.;•■• \\ w Ze'i.la.nil to erect ;i ii;-iiiiu-iviici?; . uu:!> :i: , tbjs om v tc the, •jneiD.orv of' the breVe men who died tor their country,"