New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 8, 10 May 1915, Page 8

New Zealand

DEMONSTRATION AT HAWERA.

Ft it i'kess Association

Hawcra, May 9

A very largely' attended patriotic service of intercession was held at the Opera House this afternoon, when a stirring appeal was made for men for the front. The service was most impressive and will assist recruiting.

BELGIAN RELIEF FUND. ; Timaru, May 9. A meeting of representatives of local bodies on Saturday' decided that the South Canterbury share of the Dominion Belgian Relief Fund, £lB2, shall he paid by local bodies in proportion to the rateable value, an alternative being population. A street collection yesterday for the Red Cross Fund produced £420. SPEECH BY THE GOVERNOR. Auckland, May 9. Speaking at the Orphans’ Club gathering last night the Governor, Lord Liverpool, referred* to the tactics of the Germans in the present war. If you were to take the gathering as a whole here to-night, he said, it would probably' say we arc dealing with snakes, so treat them as snakes. G lear, bear.) But if an individual is taken, would the answer bo the same ? Would not he say it is wiongP They can play the game of snakes, but by God we will play the game we have always played—the straight game of our forefathers. (Loud applause.) The other suggestion is certainly a suggestion of the devil. W o have had handed down to us a great heritage. Our forefathers did not play the snake, and we children who came after them will not play the snake. (Cries of “No!”) Quito right, too, added his Excellency. The Governor went on to speak of tbe twenty years be was a soldier. He bad met New Zealanders in South Africa, a war that was only«n pinhead compared with the present great struggle, and was much impressed with them. Iwo battalions of bis own regiment were now in Franco and one in Persia, and many of bis old comrades bad already been killed. “It is tbe King’s wish,” added tbe Governor, “that 1 am here in New Zealand, but if you asked me personally where 1 would rather be, 1 would reply that I wish I were with my regiment. My profession was that of a soldier for just on twenty years, and my heart goes to those vho soldiered with me.”