OUR MINISTERS AT HOME

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1916, Page 5

OUR MINISTERS AT HOME

DECEIVED BY THE KIXC NEW ZEALAXDERS' WELCOME SPEECHES IX REPLY. Received Oct. 23,' 0 p.m. Australiau-N.2. Cable Association. ; London, Oct. 24. Six hundred people attended the N«r Zealand reception Riven by Mr. Massey anfl Sir J. G. Wind ut the Hotel Cecil. The High Commissioners and AgentsGeneral wore present. • ' Mr. Massey, in thanking those present f br their welcome, expressed his appreciation of what Anglo-Xew Zealamlers ; had done for the (Dominion troops, especially in regard to the sick and' woundod, and also the way they bad kept New Zealand's prestige up in the Old Country. He briefly outlined what the Dominion had done in the war, and! added: "Whenever and wherever the. war wjll end, New Zealand will be there. New Zealand is able, to go on doing what she has done for quite a long time." The Notional (lovernment had: vjjrkcd smoothly, and the mission: whereon Sir Joseph Ward and he oamej represented a united New Zealand. Sir Joseph Ward also expressed 'hisj thanks, and said he believed that ivhat« ever might he the opinion in England) there was no doubt that after the war. they must create machinery co-ordinate with the interests of the Empire. ■ Sir. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward attended the iPrivy Council, the King prc< ' siding. The King afterwards gave an audience to both Mr. Massey and Sir, . Joseph Ward, who will attend a CaJbifleti meeting on Wednesday.