New Zealand Gazette – 1951 – No. 76

Page 1419

✨ Parliamentary Opening Statement

Numb. 76
1419

NEW ZEALAND
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1951
THE First Session of the Thirtieth Parliament of New Zealand was on the 25th
day of September 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 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
In the last few days the British peoples have learned with feelings
of profound sorrow of the deterioration in the health of our beloved
Sovereign, His Majesty King George VI, and of the serious operation
His Majesty has undergone. At the request of my Prime Minister I
have conveyed to Their Majesties the King and Queen the deep
sympathy of the Government and people of New Zealand and the
assurances of their loyalty and devotion. As we anxiously await
further news it is the earnest hope and devout prayer of all his loyal
subjects that His Majesty's condition may soon respond to medical
treatment and thus remove the heartfelt anxiety which is, I am sure,
felt throughout the world.
Since I opened the last Parliament less than three months ago,
there has been a dissolution followed by a general election. My
Ministers therefore desire that I should place on record the reasons
which impelled the Government to follow this course, and to seek a
fresh mandate from the people when less than two years of the normal
term of Parliament had expired.
At the beginning of the year, a matter affecting wages in the
waterfront industry was seized upon by the watersiders as an
opportunity for a trial of strength with the democratically-elected
Government.

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🏛️ Opening Statement of the First Session of the Thirtieth Parliament

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