VISCOUNT CRAIGAVON

Southland Times, Issue 21098, 2 June 1930, Page 3

VISCOUNT CRAIGAVON

RECENT COLONIAL TOUR.

MESSAGE TO ULSTER.

London, April 16,

Viscount Craigavon addressed the people of Ulster last week through the Belfast studio "of the British Broadcasting Corporation. He referred to his recent tour of New Zealand and Australia, and said that the dearest hope of the Ulster people he met abroad was for the advancement and increased prosperity of the people of North.ern Ireland.

“An ambition of my lifetime has now been accomplished,” said Lord Craigavon, “and the outstanding thought in relation to it is one of pride that I should have been able to travel by a British steamer to the furthest away inhabitated land upon this globe and find the Union Jack flying as proudly in ‘New Ulster’ as it does to-day in Old Ulster. You probably know that the North Island of New Zealand was originally called ‘New Ulster.’ “A constant source of interest was meeting with those so closely associated with this Homeland,” said Lord Craigavon. “I found myself welcomed by innumerable people because I was an outward link between Ulster the land of their father’s or of their own birth, and the new homes which they had succeeded in making in these distant lands. Apart from the messages of affectionate rememberance of which my wife and I are the bearers to so many, there is one common wish of each of our kinsnien overseas, that those who remain at home may prosper in all that is best, and not least in the material things of this life.”