LOYAL ADDRESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1941, Page 6

LOYAL ADDRESS

PRESENTED AT CIVIC RECEPTION ON BEHALF OF LOCAL BODIES. AND PEOPLE OF DISTRICT. The following address was read by the Mayor (Mr T. Jordan) at the civic reception extended to their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Newall in the Town Hall today:— To his Excellency, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Sir Cyril Louis Norton Newall, G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.M.G., C.8.E., A.M., Governor-General and Commender-in-Chief of the Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies: May it please Your Excellency: With our humble duty to his Majesty the King we desire to extend to you a warm and loyal welcome to this district as the representative of his Majesty in New Zealand and through you to offei’ an expression of our unchanging loyalty to his throne and person. We shall not readily forget the moving sight, on the day of his Coronation, of his Majesty and his Gracious Consort, solemnly and in the face of the nation, dedicating the rest of their young lives to the service of the State. From that day forth their earnest and constant desire has been to gain the confidence and affection of their -people and to show by their life and by their conduct that they are there, not to be ministered unto, but to minister. In every crisis his Majesty’s action defines the common task in terms of the simplest civic duty and holds up to the nation the pattern of each for all. Amid the rain of bombs with its ruthless destruction of life and property they have shared the trials and dangers of their subjects and be-

come the very embodiment of the spirit of courage, fortitude and quiet resolution that is the wonder and admiration of the world. We welcome you, your Excellency, as a living link between the Throne and this Dominion, as the bearer of the torch of service and sacrifice from the Mother Country to the youngest of her daughters. Your first public utterance proclaimed your great desire to devote yourself to the service of the Dominion and the Empire. We pray that we may be worthy of your high example and that the leadership and inspiration that you bring to us may harmonise and consolidate all classes, interests and creeds in this Dominion and make of this community an instrument of power and determination in the sacred cause of freedom and honour and thus enable us to make our due contribution to a righteous peace, which we pray may in the mercy of Providence be not long delayed. Dated at Masterton this 25th day of September, 1941. For and on behalf of the inhabitants of the Wairarapa District (Signed): Thos. Jordan, Mayor of Masterton. R. E. Gordon Lee, Chairman of the County of Masterton. J. Robertson, Member for Masterton.