New Zealand Gazette – 1918 – No. 142

Page 3569

✨ Governor-General's Speech



Num. 142. 3569

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1918.

THE Fifth Session of the nineteenth Parliament of New Zealand was this day
opened by the Governor-General, when His Excellency was pleased to make
the following

SPEECH.

HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND GENTLEMEN OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,–

When I addressed you on the 9th April of the present year at the
opening of last session the position of the allied armies on the western
front was such as to give grave cause for anxiety. In that speech, after
stating that the then present moment probably marked the crisis of the war
in which the Empire had so long been engaged, I said, “We are well
assured that the courage and endurance of our armies, now tried to the
uttermost, will not fail in the present or the future. We have the record
of the past three years to justify that confidence.” Soon after the termination of that session the strategy of Marshal Foch and the splendid
valour and endurance of the allied armies under his single command
changed the course of the war from defence to continuous attack upon
the enemy’s positions, and thenceforward victory has followed victory
until there has come first the unconditional surrender of Bulgaria and then
urgent proposals for peace from the other enemy countries, while the Allies
occupy large parts of Belgium and of France which for four years had been
under the domination of Germany. In the operations on the western
front our New Zealand Division has been constantly in action, and has
given the Dominion renewed cause to be proud of our soldiers’ record of
courage and discipline. In the East also our mounted forces have had part
in the wonderful series of successes by which the army under General
Allenby’s command has driven the enemy far beyond the bounds of
Palestine.



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🏛️ Opening of the Fifth Session of the Nineteenth Parliament

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Parliament, Governor-General, Speech, World War I, Military Operations
  • Governor-General