VICTORIA AND THE WAR.
♦ Mr Vale, a member of the Victdriani Legislature, "has a profound regard for the Premier of New Zealand. Speaking at a recent patriotic meeting at Richmond, one of the suburbs of Melbourne, he said, in the course of a speech that was punctuated by wild cheering:— "Digger Dick Seddon, the noblest, ablest statesman we had south of the Line, had said : 'I have sent ten contingents; and if ten more are wanted I will find you the men.' 'Digger Dick' was, a man of the people,, and; understood their feelings and aspirations. He wished that more of the statesmen within the; Australian, coast had ' Digger DicfcV feelings, for then we should not have waited until Mr Chamberlain asked for a thousand men before organising the Federal Contingent. Had the offer been made, undasired and unsolicited, it would have been in accord with the people's feelings; and if ten times 10,000 men had been wanted there were men, imported and native-born, who would fill the ranks."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7338, 26 February 1902, Page 4
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