DOMINION DINNER.

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17409, 23 May 1928, Page 7

DOMINION DINNER.

GATHERING IN LONDON. SPEECH BY THE PRINCE. NEW ZEALAND'S GREAT FUTURE. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian Press Association). LONDON, May 21. The Prince of Wales was the chief guest at the annual dinner of the New Zealand Association. There was an attendance, of 400, including the Secretary of Stale for the Dominions. Mr L. S. Amery, Earl Jellicoe, the President of the Board of Education, Lord Eustace Percy. Lord Kylsant, the shipping magnate, Sir Joseph Ward. Mr Pember Reeves, a former High Commissioner Sir Ernest Rutherford, the famous physicist, Sir .Tames Mills, chairman of the Union Steam Ship Company. The High Commissioner, Sir James Parr who presided, contrasted the adverse trade balance, of £2,500,000 last year with the favourable balance of £10,500,000. The Prince responding to the toast of his health, said he had compared memories with the Duke of York. They agreed that the country would have a great future. The presence of so many Empire builders, and the figures quoted by Sir James Parr, proved the Heedlessness of undue boasting. The Prince said lie rejoiced that New Zealand cadets were now eligible Cor entry at Sandhurst and Woolwich Military Academies. .Mr Amery predicted (hat the future of New Zealand in the Pacific would equal that of Britain in the Atlantic.