New Zealand Gazette – 1937 – No. 62

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✨ Governor-General's Opening Speech

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THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1937.

THE Second Session of the Twenty-fifth Parliament of New Zealand was
this day opened by the Governor-General, when His Excellency was pleased
to make the following statement of the causes of the calling of this Session of
Parliament together:—

HONOURABLE GENTLEMEN OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, AND MEMBERS OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,—

The accession and Coronation of His Majesty King George VI have been
welcomed in this Dominion with universal approbation and with warm attachment
to the Throne and to the persons of Their present Majesties. My Prime
Minister was privileged to represent New Zealand at the Coronation ceremony
in London, and the popular enthusiasm so unmistakably displayed throughout
His Majesty's dominions has, in the opinion of my Advisers, provided conclusive
proof of the value of the Throne to the British Commonwealth of Nations.

During this year my Ministers invited the public to contribute towards a
fund for the provision of a Dominion memorial to His late Majesty, King
George V, in the form of Children's Health Camps. It is gratifying indeed to
record the magnificent response that all sections of the community, and both
races, made to this appeal. Legislative proposals for the administration of
this fund will be placed before you during the present session.

The Dominion was represented at the recent Imperial Conference by my
Prime Minister, my Minister of Finance, and the High Commissioner for New
Zealand in London. A report of the proceedings will be laid before you at an
early date, and an opportunity will be afforded for a full discussion of the work
of the Conference.

Foreign Affairs was one of the principal subjects discussed at the Imperial
Conference, and my Government, as a result of this discussion, desire to reaffirm
their attachment to the principles of the Covenant of the League of Nations,
and their conviction that a collective system for the maintenance of the peace
of the world is the only rational and effective means of achieving that end and
of facilitating that general disarmament which they so ardently desire.

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🏛️ Governor-General's Opening Speech to Parliament

Domain🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Dated9 September 1937
KeywordsParliament, Opening of Session, King George VI, Coronation, Imperial Conference, League of Nations, Children's Health Camps
👱🏽 Names

VI George (King), Accession and Coronation
V George (King), Memorial fund for late King

👩‍💼 Officials

Governor-General
Prime Minister
Minister of Finance
High Commissioner for New Zealand in London

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