AN IDEALISTIC MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1492, 15 July 1912, Page 4

AN IDEALISTIC MISSION.

ME, LEO. MYERS'S INTENTIONS.

Mr. Loo. Myers, of Auckland, who has for many years been prominently associated with tho liquor trade in Auckland, Uas decided to.live in England for a considerable, timo to conic. Oil Thursday last he was banqueted by thoso associated with the retail and wholesale trade, and presented with an address.

Mr. Myors, in 'reply, said (hat his lot had been cast with tho commercial men of Auckland, and although lie had had experience of tho American, English, and African commercial worlds, ho could say that tho Auckland business men were noted for their integrity and honesty of purpose. Ho was leaving Auckland after being (hero practically all. lus life, and lie iiad surrounded himself with commercial men. He had come- bS the conclusion that fliero was more in commerce than the piling uj> of sovereigns. He referred particularly to tho friendships he had made. Ho was not going Homo for n life of pleasure, nor was he going in search of the almighty dollar. Ho was leaving with an ideal, and that was to do something, however small, towards binding with closer lies, the union 'between the Motherland and the Overseas Dominions. Was a 1 man a mere moneymaking machine? Was he to spend (.ho whole of his life in. pursuit of gold? More, than one of his friends had said: "Leo, yon are a fool; you are at the head of a good business; your ideal will never realise, and you will play a very unimportant part." Ho admitted the truth of nil tin's, bnt ho would be all the happier if lie knew he was trying. Whatever happened, he would try (o do what he had always done—"play the game." (Applause.)