CONFIDENCE IN FUTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 229, 16 December 1927, Page 8

CONFIDENCE IN FUTURE

MRNEW ZEALAND’S DESTlflf (From Our Resident Reporter.) [ WELLINGTON, Tr^j, In a farewell address cast by 2YA. the Secretan?*! State for the Dominions th» d M Hon. L. S. Amery, said tha* ? leaves New Zealand with . mg of confidence in the En-.oilj and the Dominion’s future, Mr. Amery said that the obVw. of his tour round the British nions were:— “'’•a Firstly, to learn, as a Mini.* the British Cabinet, responsible communications and correspond ' r? with the various Governments of?:' Empire and the keeping of the iw nions’ point of view before his leagues and Parliament. 04

Secondly, to constitute his share the maintanence of that peri/ ‘ touch between people which was so essential a-,.’ days to the Empire’s co-operation Thirdly, to discuss with the vari-. Dominion Governments manv ordir,i! current matters of business.

“I have enjoyed every minute of stay in New Zealand. I shall leave j, a few days with a sense of joy of mi visit to New Zealand, a sense ot co> fidence in the future, not only in u, material future, but in what the chi' aeter of her people, the high s-vv dard of education, and the ideas th f r hold so dear, will enable New Zei land to achieve in the years befan her Above all, I shall leave \’e» Zealand on my journey Homeware, with a feeling that from the first fo, to the last I have been at home-aj home in every sense of the word Here and everywhere else I have betreceived not as a stranger, but as , fellow-citizen and fellow-worker h I common cause. Here and elsewhere in the Dominion I found myself ucd.r the same flag, among men speahrj the same language, living under same institutions, cherishing the sart ideas, and holding the same loyalty to the Throne. Nowhere have these feelings been more Intense than 3 New Zealand.”

Mr. Amery concluded by sayint that he hoped to visit New Zeaianl again “to meet old friends, old colleagues, and, in every sense of the phrase, to find myself at home amcr,f you.”

In a final interview before learlnf Wellington, Mr. Amery summed up hi* impressions of New Zealand, during the course of which he said: “As far as New Zealand’s attitude toward Imperial affairs is concerned I have found everywhere the same faith in Empire, the same loyalty to the throne and all it stands for, that I remember so well from my lirst visit to the Dominion. That faith and loyalty have been quickened with a keener reahsation of all that the responsibilities of Empire involve, stimulated by the experiences of the Great War. and hit being kept alive by the closer interest taken both by the Press and public in the general Empire policy.”