STIRRING OVATION.

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19762, 18 December 1935, Page 8

STIRRING OVATION.

MR SAVAGE WELCOMED. AUCKLAND CIVIC RECEPTION. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. The Town Hall was packed last evening for the civic reception which was extended by the people of Auckland to the Prime Minister, the Hon. M. J. Savage. Mr Savage was g'reeted with cheers and the singing of " For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow.” Speeches of welcome and congratulation were made by the Mayor, Mr Ernest Davis, the deputy-Mayor, Mr B. Marlin, the Primate, Archbishop Averill, Mr G. Jackson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Monsignor Holbrook, president of the Auckland Social Workers’ Association, the Rev. T. N. Guttle, Moderator of the Auckland Presbytery, Mr A. Rosser, representing the Auckland Labour Party, Mr W. F. Boyle, American Consul, the Hon. T. Bloodworth, M.L.C., and Mr F. E. Lark. In Teplying to the welcome, Air Savage said he believed they had arrived at the parting of the ways and the bulk of the people of New Zealand had chosen the right track. It would be the duty of the new Government jo see that the principles of self-govern-ment were more firmly established than ever before. “We realise the task ahead of us," he said, ’’but with the prevailing goodwill 1 say again the difficulties are few. All Hie difficulties are man-made.” Me expressed the hope that New Zealand would prove capable of joining hands with kinsmen overseas in the big work ahead of establishing peace on earth. He did not think there was any greater objective for men and women to address lliemsclves to than that. “ I want, in the name of the new Government and in the name of Labour," continued Mr Savage, “ to say that you have no need whatever to feel any doubt about what is going to happen in the future. The only thing that is in front of us is to lie able to cooperate for Ihc welfare of Ihc people; and 1 say again, with all Hie sincerity in my composition, there is not anything else on earth worth living for." The Prime Minister concluded by returning hearlfelt thanks lo Hie Mayor for Hie reception, and said it would be his privilege and duly to live up lo ilie expectations Unit had been expressed. He desired lo he able always to meet them in days lo come as friends and comrades in a common cause. He was accorded another ovation at Hie 'close, of his address.