New Zealand Gazette – 1944 – No. 12

Page 175

✨ Parliamentary Opening Statement



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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1944
THE First Session of the Twenty-seventh Parliament of New Zealand was on the
twenty-second day of February opened by Commissioners under the authority
of Letters Patent, and His Excellency was this day 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,
My Ministers have been fully seized of the importance of affording you
early opportunity of discussing matters relating particularly to the Dominion's
effort in the war and its prosecution, and in conformity with their advice this
first session of the new Parliament has been summoned as soon as circumstances
permitted.
Since I last addressed Parliament the war situation in nearly every theatre
has shown a vast improvement, and to-day the fortunes of the United Nations
engaged in this world struggle against the forces of aggression are in the
ascendant. The sustained offensive on land, sea, and in the air has rendered
the defeat of Nazi Germany more certain and more imminent. The military
and productive centres of Western Europe have been, and are being,
ceaselessly bombed in preparation for the Allied invasion, and in no theatre
have the Forces of the United Nations achieved greater results than have
those of our Russian Allies in Eastern Europe. It is upon this groundwork
that other victories have been based and hopes of further victories have been
built. Here in the Pacific the menace of Japan has been removed further from
our shores, and the initiative has been taken from the enemy. The peoples
of the United Nations everywhere fully realize that the phase of supreme
effort has now arrived and that bigger and more costly battles are still to be
fought. Though our enemies are in retreat their Forces have not yet been
overcome, and, while final victory is assured, the end is by no means in sight.
During the past year, as throughout the whole of this war, the New
Zealand people, Maori and pakeha alike, have contributed to the common
cause to the full extent of their resources. It is a source of justifiable
pride that Forces of this Dominion are still foremost in the attack and
that the devotion of the total effort of the country to the purposes of war
continues to be the foremost aim.
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