H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13976, 8 May 1913, Page 3

H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND.

('ATTAIN HALSEY’S ADDIIESS TO CHILDREN.

(Per United i’rrss Association.)

AUCKLAND, May 7

An address was -given by Captain Hal

J.cy ia Die Town Hall to-day to a gatherin'* of :)oifo school children. The Governor was present, as was also the Hon. H. 1). Hell, acting-Minister for Education. Captain Halsey expressed his p!easiir/> at having the opportunity of addressing Die large gathering of young "New Zealanders there assembled. The subject of his remarks that morning, he said, was ioydie “Patriotism. ’’ In i7CiD Captain Cook visited Poverty' Hay and afterwards ..eat lo Merenrv Baynml planted the Dnion Jack, which had liowu over New /.'aland ever since. In 1840. when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, every person in New Zealand lieeanre a member of the great Hritl-h Empire. All those who had come to New Zealand from afaiywere Englishmen, and they should- be proud of it. AVhat, he asked, was the Union .lack? It meant union, and niiion meant strength. They must have strength in Die, Empire to keep thatAJnion Jack boating over every one of its shores. llis and their ancestors had slaved to make the Empire what it was. Hut for them, the young people eon Id not be well and happy, as he found them in this great Dominion of New Zealand. The duty of the present generation was to follow in the footsteps ef their ancestors, and he urged them to ■ ive some small portion of each day to Dioinrhts about Imperialism. In. explaining the Union Jack, Captain Halsey point'd out the three crosses of St. George, SI. Patrick, and Si. .Andrew, meaning' respectively husbandman, nobleman, and true manliness. He' urged that when -young'people saw the Huron Jack they should remember what those crosses stood lor and should try to live up to the lessons. Captain Halsey related some sterling examples of true manly discipline r.s displayed by Britishers, both ashore and afloat. He concluded by a touching reference to the heroism displayed by the members of the .Scott Amta retie party. They had the true courage that every Britisher should have, and thev . taped death nobly.. “It was," he declared, >a true example of British manliness." The lathers and mothers of those present had given up much to contribute the great battleship which be Had the honour to command, and from what ho had scon when in Now Zealand, he felt that thev were prepared to do more. The'children should prepare themselves to do likewise, and they could only do that hy living Dio lives that their King expected them to live. The speaker referred to the grand part which New Zealand had placed in the South Afrioak war, and as an inspiration to lus youthful audience he quoted the inscription which had been placed on a gate erected to Die memory of those who bad lost their lives in South Africa: They who have passed leave to us who pass an undying example." As a'further inspiration Captain Halsey quoted from Macaulay’s “Lays of Ancient Eome": “How can ..man die better than facin'/ fearful odds, > B For the ashes of his fathers and the - temples, of his gods.” At the conclusion of his address Captain Halsey was heartily cheered by the children.