MR MASSEY SPEAKS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1918, Page 1

MR MASSEY SPEAKS.

AX AFTER-DINXER ADDRESS. [PF.B riIESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYBICnT.J LONDON, Juno 19. The Empire Producers organisation lnnchconcd Mr Massey at Connaught rooms. Replying to the toast of his health Mr Massey said the end of the war was not yet in sight, but we wore going on to the end. it was our duty to see that we could carry on what our New Zealand troops have done, provided wo had not deteriorated. The Americans were coining in with a fervour that augured well tor the iuture. M lieu the Kaiser had an opportunity of meeting the Americans lie would have cause to reconsider his comment that the Americans ell’orts were all bluff. The Germans won’t see Paris or the Channel ports in the present generation. All the native races of the. Empire had given evidence of their unbounded loyalty. We were going to win through the war and must afterwards take the equally important problems, ft was our responsibility to build up an Empire, not on the German model, nor on the models of past Empires, which rose and flourished for decades, hut a new Empire which would he a blessing to all humanity.

We must see the enemy never Regains socially, commercially or politically, the- position that he held heiore the war. We might well take a lessson from America, which after the horrors of civil war, developed, and used her own resources to the. utmost, until she became a front rank nation. There were, unfortunately, people in our own Empire, who would trade with the devil, if they could make a. bit more profit. Mr. Massey continued:—lt the Avar Cabinet doses its duty the German Colonies will remain under British control.