N.Z. MINISTERS AT HOME.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16751, 14 October 1916, Page 7

N.Z. MINISTERS AT HOME.

LONDON, October 12

At s luncheon of welcome to Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward, Mr Bonar Aaw paid a tribute to the splendid services both had rendered to the Empire. The services by thfe overseas Dominions could not be exaggerated. It was not only a question of moral support. They had sent somewhere about three-quar-ters of a million troops, but numbers were not their chief characteristic. They had also placed their assets of every kind at the Motherland'ft disposal. The war had taught Engk nd that, in our dealings with the Dominions, it was not merely a question of profit and loss, but that whatever would add to their strength would amo add to the strength of the Empire.

Mr Bonar Law went on to say that- New Zealand had played her part. In proportion to her population she has sent and keeps up a strength not inferior to the other Dominions, and up to now without compulsion. They knew what she had done at Gallipoli. CCheers.) Her tro >ps had not merely received their baptism of fire, but with theii Australian comrades had proved themselves as good as any troops in history. What they had done would be nanded down in history. Referring to Britain's unpreparedness, Mr Bonar Law said she had started badly, as she had done in every war. When history comes to be' written the marvel wiil be the way in which the Empire organised itself until it more than equalled the enemy in war material and always beat them in the quality of its men. The end was not yet in sight, but the tide had turned, and the result was not in doubt.