STAND FAST FOR THE RIGHT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 123, 25 May 1916, Page 2

STAND FAST FOR THE RIGHT.

GOD BLESS THE EMPIRE! GOD SAVE THE KING! THE PREMIER’S EMPIRE DAY MESSAGE. WELLINGTON. May 22. * Recently the president of the Caledonian Club of Los Angeles, California, wrote to the Prime Minister of New Zealand asking for a message to be road at a great British'Empire-Day gathering to be held on May 24. The president mentioned that the gathering would include Englishmen, Scotsmen, Welshmen, Irishmen, Canadians, New Zealanders, Australians, Frenchmen, Belgians, Italians, Servians, Montenegrins, Russians and Japanese, and that it Avould give the people of the United States an inspiring proof of British solidarity. Mr. Massey replied as -follows: —• “Message from the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, P.C. —Though separated from America by many leagues of ocean, New Zealand joins most cordially with the sons and daughters of Britain who

are celebrating British Empire Day in

sunny California. In whatever part of the world British people are to he found to-day, they are one in heart and sympathy, one in love for the land of their fathers, one in pride of Empire, one in their desire to keep flying the grand old Flag—the emblem of liberty and freedom and righteousness —which to-day waves over a people more closely united than at any time in their history, and more determined than ever to stand together for * all the sacred privileges handed down 'c them by heroic ancestors. To-day. after two years of the bloodiest and "wrt exhausting war the world has

- --or known, they are more keenly "'■'solved than ever to do their full •are in securing victory for their Empire and its gallant Allies. New ■/ea I ,though one of the youngest members of the great Imperial family, has freelv given of her best and brav--rt for the great causes in which we ore engaged, an dto-night sends her essage across the Pacific to the ■wo gathering cf our kith and kin eceirbled in the shrine auditorium: '■■■dtand fast for the right! God bless. Empire! God save the King! 'S : .sited), W. F. Massey, Prime Minister.” - ANOTHER MESSAGE. n>» feipwing telegram was receiv-•-1 ren«n-v bv the Prime Minister y, r TTnnt W. P. Massey). from ■he editor “Land and Water.” Lon- " r\r> • “ 'Land and Water’ will publish a -—roial Five Nations number on EmHw Dav. and is arranging for indi”idnal. messages from the Prime Minytprp cf tb<* five nations. Should greatly amnrecrito a message from -">-1 o n n-het New Zealand is doing to win the war and consolidate the ’arn-MVe.” In response to this rocmest. Mr. Masw,,. has despatched the following mes■age:— <‘t„ jn,o pn-.esr. of liberty and free--Ifor H-hir.’-i Britain has drawn the ewrrd. opr Dominion's sons are taking in the fighting line, and -vUI continue to do so until final and mrislve vSotorv comes. Fifty-two thou-c;-u’U'. nton- Zealanders 'have al-••-.o.rtv to the call of duty, nv'rp qm ' mia rind reinforcements will regular!v go forward. On this cf Dav, the world 'i-'k'Vlc yu'iiish ip.+ton more firmly united than at anv rime in its nast i history. Reverses, when they occur, serve only tc strengthen our determination to win this war at all costs, and New Zealand, along with the other Oversea Dominions, taking pride in her loyalty and devotion to King and country, will not relax her efforts no\y cc after the war to ensure for all time the safety and integrity of the Empire,—w. F. Massey, Prime Minister.”