MR AMERY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19166, 24 November 1927, Page 8

MR AMERY.

LEAVES FOR THE SOUTH.

CONTROL OF PALESTINE.

[THE PEZSS Specl*! Berries.]

AUCKLAND, November 23,

Mr and Mrs Amery concluded their visit to Auckland this morning, when they left by special train for Hamilton. The energy" of Mr Amery and his desire to keep physically fit were indicated by the fact that he was up at 6 o'clock. He went across the harbour in a launch provided by the Harbour Board, climbed to the top" of Rangitoto, and was back at his hotel in time for breakfast. Before leaving Auckland, Mr Amery received a deputation from the Auckland Zionist Society. The Rev. S. A. Goldstein informed Mr Amery that two vears ago the Society in Auckland had the honour of paying their respects to General Allenby, tho liberator of Palestine. They now desired to convey their thanks to the distinguished representative of the British Government and to one who had contributed in no small measure to the Balfour Declaration. .. .

They also desired to meet Mr Amery in his capacity as the Minister responsible for the administration of Palestine. The carrying out of the terms of the Declaration was not an easy task. It had taken some time to convince tho British population that the policy was a sound one, and it, had taken even longer to convince the Arab population that there was to be no infringement of their liberties.

Mr Amery said that the quality of the work done by the Jewish race in Palestine since the Armistice was of a very high order. Their powers of colonisation were very remarkable. The new University at Jerusalem, he thought, had great possibilities, and there was a real life of culture developing in Palestine on essentially Jewish lines. For these and other reasons he felt a keen interest in Zionism, and as a Minister of the Crown, with special responsibility in relation to the development of the country, he assured them that it was tho intention of the British Government and of tho British people to carry out their work in the true spirit of the Balfour Declaration. VISJT TO HAMILTON. (PB«SJ ASSOCIATION HLIOBUC.) HAMILTON, November 23. Mr L. S. Amery (Secretary for the Colonies) paid a visit to the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company's factory at Waharoa this afternoon. Subsequently he was welcomed by the Mayor of Hamilton. He then spent a brief period at the Makura State Experimental Farm, and later left far Hangatiki on the journey south.