EMPIRE DAY
MESSAGE FROM VISCOUNT BLEDISLOE MISSION OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following message has been received by his Excellency the GovernorGneral (Lord Galway) from the president of the Empire Day Movement, Viscount Bledisloe, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.B.E.— “A year ago on Empire Day we were ■all acclaiming with affectionate fervour our newly-crowned King and wishing him and his charming consort a long, happy and prosperous reign over a vast Empire scattered over every quarter of the globe, but inseparably united by ties of loyalty to the Throne, traditions of freedom and justice and noble ideals of service and of righteousness. Today King George VI is firmly established not merely on Throrie of his ancestors, but in The hearts of his people, faithful to the pledge which he gave at his coronation that the welfare of his subjects would be the paramount aim of lifs life.
“As president of the Empire Day Movement, I send you all hearty greetings. I feel confident that our Empire is the chief bulwark of peace, freedom and good government in the world, and earnestly hope that whatever be our station in life, our race, or our occupation, we may, by Go’d’s help, following the example of' our. King and Queen, make the service of God and of our fellow men the ideal of our lives. Also that by mutual helpfulness, industry, integrity and the consciousness that we all belong to the same great human family of the British Commonwealth, we may maintain unabated its powerful influence in promoting the happiness, the peace and the progress of mankind.” —BLEDISLOE.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1938, Page 8
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269EMPIRE DAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1938, Page 8
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