EMPIRE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20506, 24 May 1938, Page 9

EMPIRE DAY

“BULWARK OF PEACE” LORD BLEDISLOE’S MESSAGE The president of the Empire Day Movement, Viscount Bledisloe, has forwarded the following Empire. Day message to the Governor-General, Lord Galway:— “A year ago on Empire Day we were * all acclaiming with affectionate fervour j our newly-crowned King and wishing him and his charming consort a long, happy and prosperous reign over a vast j Empire scattered over every quarter - of the globe but inseparably united by ties of loyalty to the throne, traditions j of freedom and justice and noble ideals ( of service and of righteousness. To-day r King George the Sixth is firmly estab- < lished not merely on the throne of his ancestors, but in the hearts of his < people, faithful tactile pledge whch he ( gave at his Coronation that the welfare t of his subjects would be the paramount aim of his 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 t earnestly hope that whatever be our station in life our race or our occupa- 1 tion, we may, by God’s help, following A the example of our King and Queen, make the service of God and of our 1 fellow men the ideal of our lives. Also f that by mutual helpfulness, industry, 5 integrity and the consciousness that we all belong to the same great human family of the British Commonwealth, 1 we may maintain unabated its powerful ( influence in promoting the happiness, the peace and the progress of mankind.”