DECLARATION DAY.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7911, 26 July 1917, Page 3

DECLARATION DAY.

t he THIRD anniversary. OCR SACRED DUTY. Caturdav, August 4th, will, be the ~j aM iversary of the declaration of hv Britain, and in connection *LJth the Mayor, Mr W. I. Lim■'t has received the following pnnieation from the Prime behalf of the .of this Dominion, I have the *° j 0 request that on Saturday, * August next, the third anniver0{ t he Declaration of War with woany, you will call a meeting of ucitiaens of your borough and subf. to that meeting the attached reJntion of determination to continue var to a victorious end. The same lintion will be submitted to public Ktings throughout the rest of the “When, last year, the people of Dominion gathered to celebrate seeond anniversary, our feelings divided between our belief that ' rar was then approaching its ■ 8 our sober realisation of what u meant, our hopes that the struggle! terminate long before the d of this third year, and our proud satisfaction that our sons had , ve d their right to and had been rtn the opportunity of taking their with the Allies on the Western ufliis year we shall meet (our ns of peace not yet realised) with iknowledge that sacrifices have yet be faced, and our hearts filled j honorable pride at the thought how nobly our sons, by their enrjnee and valor, on the Somme, at ssiues, and in Palestine, have susgd the glory of Anzac. ‘With the memory' of what they a done, and our deepened knowp of what we are fighting for and g German victory would mean, i tarrying of the resolution is this i more than ever our sacred duty. —|y by the manner in which we ihrate this third anniversary will jadged our determination to maini those ideals of liberty and jus- ! which, as the resolution truly ts, are the common and sacred , nl the Allies. ‘1 shall be glad if, on the 6th nst, you will telegraph to me the of the meeting having been held iof the resolution having been hr resolution to be submitted to public meetings throughout the liaion reads as under:— That, on this the third arthiveriry of the declaration of a rights war, this meeting of the citiss of records its inflexible germination to continue to a vicaiousend the struggle in maintenate of those ideals of Liberty id Justice which are the common id sacred cause of the Allies.