SPEECH BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR F. WINGATE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3720, 13 October 1906, Page 4

SPEECH BY MAJOR-GENE-RAL SIR F. WINGATE.

In the presence of a large crowd, Major-General Win- . gate, the Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, opened a bazaar at Dunbar in connection with the parish church. He apologised for the absence of Mr Haldane, who was to have performed the ceremony, but 1 who had been summoned by the King to Marienbad. As a soldier, he said, he was rightly debarred from touching on politics, but, in the absence of Mr Haldane, he thought that he might be allowed to quote a few of his words, though intended for wider issues, nevertheless applied equally to the efforts to organise that bazaar and bring it to a successful issue. Mr Haldane said: “ Science is an essential to victory in the arts of war as in those of peace. Organisation is the key to success. Organisation depends on ideas, ideas give birth to ideals.” Mr Haldane insisted on what he called the trained mind, and to acquire that he said: —“Educate, educate, educate.” In Europe, continued the Sirdar, the truth of those words was as clear as daylight, and the workers in the more distant and less civilised parts of the globe daily realised their increasing truth, and were grateful to the exponents of the theory of the necessity of science in the art of government and in the administration of public affairs. Especially were they grateful to Mr Haldane, who had never failed to propound those principles with no small measure of success.