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Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1925, Page 1

'll IK SOH ROM'S OK V ICE-HOY A LTV. Over the Vice-Regal throne of India there hangs not only a canopy of hroidored gold, but a mist of human tears. I think that the majority of those who have suffered have done so without repining: they have thought the price worth paying; perhaps even they would do it again. Hut at least let their eoiintrvmeii know that they pay it, and remember that the foundationstones of the Indian .Empire which they vaunt so loudlv have not merely been laid in pride and glory, but have been cemented with the heart's blood or stricken men and women. And equally would I sav to the Ministers who sit in state in Downing-street and the officials who rule 'and over-rule front Whitehall, and to the legislators at Westminster who are often so ready with criticism and so glib of censure that they may derive some profitable lessons from the history of the past, and may learn that the government of India is not a pnsttime. hut an ordeal, not a pageant alone, but as often a pain.*'—The late Lord Curzon, in his book.