FRUITS OF VICTORY.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1919, Page 6

FRUITS OF VICTORY.

SPEECH BY ADMIRAL JELLICOE, Christchureh, September 1. In Ms reply at the civic welcome in the Theatre Royal to-day, Admiral Viscount Jellieoe said they all hoped to reap the fruits of victory, but before that could be done they had first of all to get the Empire to recover. There were two things essential to securing the fruits of victory. The first was a continuance of that comradeship which existed between all classes in the Empire; the same comradeship that was manifested between the officers and men in the field and on the sea. The second was work. They would never repair the Empire's wounds without work. There was no place in the Empire for either the idle rich or the idle poor. (Applause.) Responding to the toast of his health at the civic luncheon, Viscount Jellieoe Baid: "We have come out here on a mission of work which is connected with i naval matters, but it is impossible to be out here in such a great Dominion without seeing that in addition to any work that may be done by us in naval matters there are great opportunities of doing work for the Empire. By their mere presence in this great Dominion people coming from the Homeland in your midst will draw closer together tlie bonds of Empire. It is still more the case that we who arrive on your snores become school children. We learn every day we are out here how great a part New Zealand still plays in the Empire, and how very strong the feeling of loyalty to the Empire is in this great Dominion, and when we go home \vc shall go home with far mon*' knowledge in matters of that nature than when we left England. Never before has it been my privilege to visit New Zealand <ir Australia, but I have been learning inore than anything else how very strong are the bonds of Empire between the Motherland and New Zealand. When I get home I shall make it my business to preach how fully I have realised that fact."