ST. GEORGE'S DAY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 285, 25 April 1913, Page 5

ST. GEORGE'S DAY

\ M" HOME CELEBRATIONS.; J SPEEQIV BY SIR JOSEPH: WARD. • INDIA'S PROBLEM. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, April 23. • St. George's Day was widely celebrated. Roses were generally worn. The Duke of Connaught attended service in the chapel of St. Michael and St. George, St. Paul's. The Hon. T. Mackenzie and representatives of other States attended a function at Stratford-on-Avon, and assisted in the hoisting of the Dominions' flags. At the St. George banquet at the Hotel Cecil Sir Joseph Ward proposed the toast of India. He paid a tribute to Lord Sydenham's services. It was necessary, he said, for the Dominions to be sympathetic with the Indian standpoint when dealing with difficult problems like the treatment of Indians in South Africa and elsewhere. Received 24, 0.5 p.m. London, April 24. Sir Joseph Ward, speaking at St. George's dinner, added that though 150 years had elapsed since British influence was established in India we were only a small part of the way through the most remarkable governing scheme the ■world had seen. India's problem was the Empire's problem. It was diflicult to say whether it would ever become a selfgoverning State..