TRIBUTE TO PIONEERS
GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S RR USE. j M'KLLI.NGTO.N, Sept. 28. j Speaking at the annual winter re- | union of the pioneer settlers and their i descendants, held at the Town Hall ' last night, His Excellency the Gover-nor-General (Admiral Viscount Jelli- j eoe) said:—“l don’t think that this is j really :ui occasion for a speech from | one who has not been very long in the : Dominion. It is an occasion oil which !
you wish to listen to some of the slur- ! ies-stories telling of the wonderful j self-reliance, wonderful courage, -m-igy j and hard work of the early pioneers ; there will he aroused in the minds of j us who come after them a. desire to , emulate some uf their great deeds ill , building up this Dominion. (Applause). j AN ANNIVERSARY. |
“But I don’t forget that the earliest j hospitality which was shown to me in j this country in tho capacity of its Gov- ( onior-Genoral was extended to me on j the occasion a year ago to-morrow ol j the early settlers’ reception in this historic hall: and for that reason, if fitr ; no other, it is a very real pleasure both to Her Excellency and to myself I to come herei to-night to meet once again some of those great men who have done so much for the Dominion of | which we are all now settlers. (Applause). It is si Dominion which in its 80 vears of existence lias gone through one success after another, and has fill- j filled a great destiny ; and one cannot : forget on a night such as this, when j we are celebrating the deeds of the j early settlers, what the Dominion owes j to Edward Gibbon M’akefield, whose courage and whose constant pressing of the Houle Government led to New Zealand becoming a part of the British 1 Empire. Sir Francis Bell. perhaps, will excuse me if T say that Governments occasionally need a slight push—(laughter and applause)-- and it was Edward Gibbon Wakefield who gave the much-needed push to the ITrimo i Government in' regard to the soltle- ! meat of- Britishers in this Dominion,
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1921, Page 3
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354TRIBUTE TO PIONEERS Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1921, Page 3
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