AFRICAN VICTORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1943, Page 3

AFRICAN VICTORY

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RESOLUTION CONGRATULATIONS TO ALLIED ARMIES. AND GRATITUDE TO OUR OWN FIGHTING SERVICES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. New Zealand’s .determination to continue to devote all its energies and resources toward the achievement of final victory was expressed in a resolution adopted by the House of Representatives when the Parliamentary session was resumed yesterday. The resolution was moved by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, and seconded by the Leader of the. Opposition, Mr Holland. The full text of the resolution’ is as follows: —

“That this House of Representatives in Parliament assembled records its whole-hearted congratulations to the armies of the United Nations, whose brilliant victory in Tunisia has brought the battle for North Africa to so triumphant a conclusion, and expresses its deep sense of gratitude to the officers And men of the New Zealand fighting services who, by their sacrifices and steadfast devotion to duty throughout long and arduous • campaigns, and by their magnificent achievements, have brought fame and honour to themselves and established for their country the right to speak as a firm and active defender of freedom; and that this House again records its firm determination that New Zealand will continue to devote all its energies and all its resources toward the achievement of final victory, and records also its solemn sense of obligation to ensure that with the conclusion of a victorious peace this Dominion will devote its full effort toward assisting all peoples who have suffered for the sake of freedom.” s

The following message which he had just received frohr General Sir Bernard Freyberg was read by the Prime Minister: “From Tunis I send greetings on behalf of all ranks to our people in New Zealand. We send special good wishes to our comrades who have gone home wounded or sick, and at this moment of victory we pay our tribute to those who have fallen in battle during this long and hard desert campaign.”