NOTABLE SPEECH

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1932, Page 8

NOTABLE SPEECH

The speech which the Hon./ DoVraie Stewart delivered at the New Zealahd .Society’s luncheon to him at the Savoy Hotel London, \va s extensively reported in the : daily Press of London and the provinces. Tn addition, the portion referring to the finances df New Zealand was quoted in the financial columns of principal dailies and the financial papers (writes a London correspondent). At Mr Stewart’s wish copies of this section of his speech ' were widely circulated to all sections of the British Press, including the principal trade papers. Commenting on 'the luncheon, the “Evening Standard,’*l London, paid ‘a. great tribute to the New Zealand Finance Minister: “The best :of the speakers at the luncheon ■was the eruest of houour, who' made one of the finest Empire ;spe<pijtios I have ever heard. M'S* is of Scottish extraction. Like Mr Franklin Roosevelt, he suffers from a form of paralysis. Mr Roosevelt’s mishap was the result of archill. Mr Downie Stewart’s was due s to exposure in the trenches of Picardy. He was offered a staff job, but refused it. He speaks from his chair. He has no i gestures, hut his voice is even and. sympathetic. Hus tribute to the'British race was all tljo more effective because it was made without a trace of rhodomontade.’’