NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 121, 19 June 1909, Page 3

NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

LORD RAXFUULY AND NEW ZEALAND. London, April 25. Lord Riuifurly was presented with the honorary freedom of the Patternmakers' Company at the Guildhall oji Tuesday in token of appreciation of the service rendered by him as (iovernor and Com-mander-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand during the years ISO 7 to 1004, and as a mark of the esteem in which he was' held by the citizens of London.

Replying to an address by the Master of tlie Company, Lord Hanfiirly said tliat lie was proud at all times to have hail , liiti name associated with a colony which i had been foremost in her loyal attach- ! incut to the Jiritislt Empire, an example to them all of patriotic self-sacrifice, which at the present moment had dune so much to arouse throughout the Umpire that spirit of national responsibility without which w'e should soon lie left behind in the coming struggle for supremacy upon the sea. The inlluencc of Mr. Scddon was still evident, and under his friend anil successor, Sir dosepli Ward, was giving daily proof of its reality. To it was in a large measure due the magnificent action of the Now Zealand (loverinncnt, the example of which in ils'clf was of such immeasurable viable to this country. If was not merely the offer of substantial help by the gift of one or more great battleships, it was the eil'ect of such an offer, lie was persuaded that this spirit developed l»y a patriotic feeling and encouraged and developed by a patriotic Ministry must have far-reaching issues.

YOUNO HEX TOO FRIVOLOUS. Speaking at a meeting of the Koyal Colonial Institute to a resolution expressing satisfaction at the colonial offer of Dreadnoughts, Sir. A. E. Colqu'liouu said:

"The men of thes'e new countries take life more seriously than we do. "What is wrong with us is not that we cannot 'bear our burdens, but that we arc too frivolous' to face them. Our young men are steeped in lnuxury, and are moved to emotion only by sport. "Sport has done much for our national physique and character, but a nation in ■which the bull; of the young manhood makes sport its first consideration cannot long contend with more virile and serious peoples.

"We present at this moment the spectacle of a nation in which (lie women are in danger of being too strenuous and the men too self-indulgent.''