✨ Parliamentary Opening Speech
Numb. 55.
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1916.
THE Second Session of the nineteenth Parliament of New Zealand was this
day opened by the Governor, when His Excellency was pleased to make
the following
S P E E C H.
HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,—
It has been found necessary to submit to you proposals for the extension of
the powers of my Government in matters relating to the war, and I have there-
fore found it necessary to convene Parliament at a somewhat earlier date than
usual.
It was my privilege at the opening of the session of 1915 to read a message
from His Majesty the King congratulating the people of this Dominion upon the
splendid conduct and bravery displayed by the New Zealand troops at the Dar-
danelles. The landing of our soldiers with their comrades of the Australian
troops and of the British and Indian Forces at the Anzac Beach and at
Helles on the 25th April, 1915, was the historic occasion of that message.
Though all the land forces of the Allies have since been withdrawn from the
Dardanelles, history will record that our men throughout the occupation faced
the dangers of battle and disease and endured privation and suffering with
unfailing courage, and that they, with the Governments and peoples of New
Zealand and of the Commonwealth, quietly and without demur acquiesced in
and accepted the necessity of retirement from the battlefield where so much
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