EIGHTY CLUB

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10250, 29 May 1911, Page 5

EIGHTY CLUB

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AFTER-DINNER SPEECHES.

SIR JOSEPH AGAIN "SMOODGES."

(Received This Morning, 12.20 o'clock.)

LONDON, May 28

Five hundred guests attended the Eight Club luncheon at the Hotel Cecil, including many leading colonial visitors.

The Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George, who presided, declared that the conferring of self-government upon the great communities within the Empirewas the greatest of all of the Liberals' achievements. He was proud zo ste them growing in "strength, influence, and power in the arms of self-govern-ment. The Liberal party felt it could share in the triumphant vindication of democratic government which the Dominions presented to the civilised world. There was, he said, no greater mistake in statesmanship than to imagine that the narrower patriotism excluded the wider one. As Liberals, they studied and watched with admiration,' and a spirit of emulation the bold experiments of sister States. It was an education to see how their enterprise and courage inspired effort, which was extricating humanity from the undergrowth in which ait was tangled. Doubtlessly a way would bo finally cut for humanity to march through to the light. Sir Joseph Ward emphasised the cordial affection for the Motherland which existed in New Zealand. He believed that the British Overseas Governments were acting in such a way that nothing done in the future would lead- to separation, and when the Dominions numbered scores of millions, the people would be attache-! to the Mother Country bv ties which would ever be remembered.