DEEPLY TOUCHED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1941, Page 6

DEEPLY TOUCHED

SIR C. NEWALL GRATEFUL FOR WELCOME

SWEARING-IN-CEREMONY

EAGER TO KNOW BOTH RACES i I ’Ey Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Sincere thanks for the very i warm welcome which had i been extended to him. his wife ; ami family in rhe capital were ■j expressed by Sir Cyril Xewall | in his reply to the speech of ! the Prime .Minister (.Mr. P. h’raser) al the ceremony at Parliament Puddings, W’el- ; lingion. on Saturday, at which Sir Cyril was sworn in as i G<» veriior-Genera I and Com- • mander-in-Chief of the Dominion. “We are deeply I touched and encouraged.*’ Sir Cyril said, “am! already feel we are among friends.'* I “For months past we have all been counting the days in anticipation of our arrival, and when yesterday at a very early hour we caught our first and eagerly-awaited glimpse of this sun-kissed jewel set in the southern seas, we were deeply moved and our i thoughts turned at once to the early , history of your country." Sir Cyril conI tinned. I “Each of my predecessors during the ; past 100-odd years—men of high ideals ! and great achievement —from the days i of Captain Hobson onward, must have ! experienced similar emotions of grati- ' tude for their good fortune and deteri mination to be worthy of their respon- ! sibilities. I “I can assure you with all sincerity that no Governor-General Designate or I his wife have ever arrived with greater | enthusiasm and eagerness to know I both races of your people, your won - i ! derful country, and all that it stands' i for in the British Empire and the! j world. I “We have read a great deal about' New Zealand and her history, and the> I more we read the greater our admira-1 Ilion of those noble pioneers and sett- 1 i levs and for the ideal which governed i their great adventure in your country’s i early development. "It is here in the midst of their traditions that we have come to make 1 our home among you and have J brought our young family to grow up i and be educated. I trust that my wife and I may be regarded not as strangers ’ but as friends, if not relatives, from a different branch of the family of the British Commonwealth of Nations.

HOPE OF BETTER DAYS

“Our great desire is that we may devote our lives to the service of New Zealand and the Empire in this hour of darkness, and that, together with the people of New Zealand, we may welcome the dawn of a new and sunlit world in which we can all live in peace and security and devote our lives to the furtherance of those traditions and ideals which we all cherish so dearly.

i "Coming, as we do. from the heart I of the Empire, you will wish me to say a word about conditions at Home, Shortly before leaving, my wife and I spent a most pleasant and interesting day with the New Zealand Army units. The Maori battalion, after their parade. sang for us and gave us a haka. I also spent a night with the New Zeai land Bomber Squadron, which has I been doing such excellent work. All 1 seemed to be fit. happy and ready for i anything, and will. I know, when the j ■ lime comes, show that the fighting! i spirit of the Anzac still lives. BRITAIN’S GRIM ORDEAL. j "As you know, London and several I | industrial centres have been subjected! ' to a series of exhibitions of Nazi lust I for wanton destruction and slaughter. ■ The conflagration in the ancient city ‘ of London at the very end of last year • was serious indeed, and greater than I any since the Great Fire of London in i 1666. "However, the will of the people to ! resist is in no way impaired by such I futile barbarity. The people of Eng-' ) land are cheerful and calm, and fully' i realise the danger at their very gates.; They are united in an inflexible deter- I ruination that this scourge which has! beset our ideals of freedom and de- ’ mocracy shall be stamped out from the! face of the earth for good and all "Mr, Prime Minister.—The spirit of I the people in England is truly magni- , ficent They cannot be beaten by in- f timidation. Their resolution grows to meet any greater ordeals they may! have to endure. Today it is the citi- i sens of the Homeland who are bearing the brunt of the attack, and sacrifices i beyond belief are being made daily i and willingly not only for themselves; but for all the peoples of the Empire ' and for democracy throughout the ■ whole world. "1 cannot stress n«. strongly the vital' need for sacrifice by all sections of the! 1 community in al! party of the Empire. : 1 "1 thank you. Mr. Prime Minister, j 1 for your very generous reference to ’ ' any service which I may have been I < privileged to render to my country and! < the Empu-e, ' ’ A Before I close, you will. I know, be < anxious for news of their Majesties-! t lilt* King and Queen. They are, as .p ver. an put minding example tons al! ■ '- t fortitude and devotion to duty. They ! v 'we the lai’ir life and endure the- same ' 1 huger? as their people They are always quick to visit the scenes of desiiueti- n and devastation, to bring com-' f f'*r: under;lamin;: and encourage-; nent to 'how who have suffered the f >•: friends relatives or property, n MESSAGE FROM KING. J ’ A::4, tmally, 1 h;iv<- a persona! nu-s-; -a M.e ! ‘m H Majesty to y..p al! Be- • y ■'('e h Fnj’ku'd I received tile I I; <■'-mmai,d to be tb<> bearer of',-, in iw ' v.. h< the Government and ; q • Me . f ?.’■ Zealand His Majesty |,r '■ e . v jth gratitude the splendid ! ■■ l ■ ■ ' ...1...!: j 1111 .lit- i, I\mg i n the !Sj ■ ■ . (-nidid- jj >y VsC’i.i-y a just and kistingj o ! aLEI TER 0|- HI WKS AFPRECIATIGN OF EXUEI.J.F2NT :»■ ARRANGEMENTS f- • f.!> Tua's’?" ♦*; ’■ ■ Pl'r’i'-. ■-t ! .:M ;(■*; ‘ »VE.i..LI N G ro\. rhis