FLOWERS AND EMPIRE.
Sir Joseph "Ward is an jardent Imperialist. His gift of a Dreadnought gained immense kudos for the country, and, incidentally, a baronetcy for ■himself. He has now broken out in quite a fresh Imperialistic place. In opening a flower show at Falmouth on April 22nd, he said:—
"If there wa a a mutual spirit of 00-oporation between the Old Country and tho new, even in the growth of flowers and in the exhibition of flowers, the .opportunities that arose, and realise that by mutual o&operation this great Old Land attached to tho overseas countries, making the most magnificent Empire the world has ever seen, oould be so powerful in the eyes of people
beyond our own oountries that no other country woruld dare, touch the hair of the head of any British subject without having the oombined opposition of the whole
against them." "Tho opportunities that arose" is quite a spicy piece of humour, that evidently escaped detection in the Motherland. But oven our first aristocrat will admit that a rose by other name will occasionally smell as sweet I
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 June 1913, Page 4
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