HAPPY MEMORIES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3731, 17 December 1927, Page 3

HAPPY MEMORIES

MR. AMERY DELIVERS FAREWELL. ADDRESS. CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE. Wellington,, December 15. Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery (Secretary of State for the. Dominions) gave his farewell address to New Zealand “over the air” at the broadcasting station 2YA to-night. Mr. Amery said that the objects of his tour round the British Dominions were firstly, to learn, as the Minister in the British Cabinet responsible for communications and correspondence with the various Governments of the Empire and the keeping of the Dominions’ point of view before his colleagues and Parliament; second, to contribute his share to the maintenance of that personal touch between governments and peoples which was soessential nowadays to the Empire’s co-operation; thirdly, to discuss with the various Dominions’ Governments many ordinary current matters of business.

“I have enjoyed every minute of the stay in New Zealand and I shall leave in a few days with a sense of joy of my visit and a sense of 1 confidence in the future —not only in her material future but' in what the character of her people, the high standard of education, and the ideas they hold so dear will enable New Zealand to achieve in the years before her,” he-said. “Above all, I shall leave New Zealand on my journey homewards with a feeling that from the first day to the last I have been at home —at home in every sense of the word. Here and everywhere else I have been received, not as a stranger, but as a fol-low-citizen and fellow-worker in a common cause.

“I found myself under the same flag, among men speaking the samo language, living under the same institutions, cherishing the same ideas and holding the same loyalty to the Throne. Nowhere have these feelings been more intense than in New Zealand.”

Mr. Amery concluded by saying that he hoped to. visit New Zealand again to meet old friends, old colleagues, and in every sense of the word, to come and find himself at home.