“BOUND TO WIN”
EMPIRE’S PART IN WAR
N.Z FORCE FOR OVERSEAS
BRITAIN HEARTENED
SIR H. BUTTERBEE'S VIEWS
(Por Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
“If wc stick together, if we stick to the principles in which we believe, if we refuse to lower our standards or let bitterness enter our hearts, then 1 am convinced we are bound to win through in the end.” In these words Sir Harry Batterbee. High Commisioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand, concluded an address at the monthly luncheon of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association yesterday, on the subject of Empire defence.
Sir Harry said that a long struggle entailing great sacrifices on the part of everyone lay ahead, but lie was sure the people of New Zealand would not shrink from those sacrifices. He said that the decision of the New Zealand Government in ibe first week of the war to raise a Special Force and the subsequent decision to dispatch tire first contingent overseas had greatly heartened the Mother Country in the midst of the trials she was now undergoing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 13
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