NEW ZEALAND’S DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1940, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND’S DAY

CELEBRATIONS IN LONDON

NOTABLE OCCASION. MR SAVAGE SENDS MESSAGE OF GRATITUDE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (.Received This Day. 12.40 p.m.) LONDON. February (>. It was New Zealand's day in London today, the celebration of the Centennial running through a dignified sequence. beginning with broadcasts by Messrs W. J. Jordan and Anthony Eden and Lord Bledisloe. and then a service at St Lawrence Jewry, the crown of the day's events being the Mansion House reception at which the presence of their Majesties the King and Queen was a charming compliment to New Zealand.

After the departure of their Majesties, Mr Jordan read Mr Savage’s message of gratitude to the Lord Mayor, to which the Lord Mayor replied tiiat the ceremony was as happy for London as it was for New Zealand.

Finally, Mr Eden broadcast the reply of Mr Savage, in which he said: •'When we look back on the hundred years of the Dominion’s history, we see plainly from New Zealand's experience that without freedom there cannot be enduring peace for nations and individuals. That is why, at the outbreak of wai - , there was no doubt in the minds of the New Zealand people."

REPLY TO KING MESSAGE FROM LORD GALWAY. NEW ZEALAND'S RESOLVE. AUCKLAND. This Day. Lord Galway dispatched the following message to the King, in reply to one sent by his Majesty on the occasion of the Waitangi celebrations: "Your Majesty’s gracious message of congratulation and good wishes was read to large crowds of people assembled at Waitangi to celebrate New Zealand’s national centenary and was received with the deepest appreciation and pleasure. On behalf of the Government and peoples of the Dominion, I desire to thank your Majesty most sincerely for this kind message and at the same time to copvey to your Majesty a renewed assurance of the abiding loyalty and devotion of the peoples of this country to the throne and the Empire. Coming at a time when the security of our Commonwealth is threatened by aggression the Centennial celebrations have served to stregthen the people of New Zealand in their resolve to uphold and defend to the utmost those precious seals of freedom and justice, which throughout the centuries have guided and inspired British peoples.