VICTORIA LEAGUE CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1918, Page 5

VICTORIA LEAGUE CONFERENCE.

STIRRING REMARKS BY PRESIDENT, By Telegraph—Press Association i - Ohristchurch, list Night. The first Dominion Conference of tie Victoria League was .opened this mornting, presided over by Mr. W. J. Napier, of Auckland. The Mayor of Christ- '/ church extended a welcome to the dele* gates. Mr. Napier, in acknowledging th* i welcome, outlined what the Victor!* League stood fur, mid concluded as fol- ', lows: "Thia conference will, with God'« help, result in teaching us better to ' carry on—for carry on we must and will, until freedom for all, the weak a* weD ' as the strong, is secure. There are s»o timid counsels i n the Victoria League. We neither give ear to aristocratic backsliders of the Lmisdownc type, nor to the ill-informed .pacifist of the street corner, but work steadily, persistently, and unfalteringly until ' our end* ar» achieved and the Empire is made safe. We shall one and all unitedly, nnd with the whole of our strength, carry on." The Governor-General and Countess Liverpool wcro elected patrons of nil branches of the league in New Zealand. The president vemnrked that ho did not know exactly what the- monetary value of the league's war work was. Jpit he would say Hint In money and material it should not bo far «hort of €ISOOOO