New Zealand Gazette – 1953 – No. 19

Page 575

✨ Opening of Parliament Address



No. 19

575

THE
New Zealand Gazette
EXTRAORDINARY
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, 8 APRIL 1953
THE Third Session of the Thirtieth 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 MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,--
I welcome this, my first opportunity of addressing you in
Parliament assembled and of acknowledging at the same time the
honour conferred on me by the Queen in appointing me to the high
and responsible office as Her Majesty's representative in New Zealand.
My wife and I, with our family, look forward with great pleasure
to the privilege of living and working amongst the people of this
loyal outpost of our great British family of Nations. Since our
arrival we have had the opportunity of meeting large numbers of
people, including many members of the Maori race, and we have been
deeply moved by the warmth and cordiality of the welcome extended
to us. It is a source of special pleasure to me that I am able to
renew my earlier association with members of the New Zealand
Expeditionary Force formed during the course of the North African
campaign. It is my earnest hope that I may, by God's will, be able
to assist in promoting the welfare of this country and its people.
On 25 March we learned, with profound sorrow, of the death of
Queen Mary, for whom we all had the strongest feelings of affection
and admiration. Throughout her long life she was unfailing in her
devotion to the British peoples, and she will always be revered for
the highest example of service which she set before us all.
The people of New Zealand and of its island territories look
forward with joyous expectation to the historic event, now less than
two months away, when our beloved Queen Elizabeth the Second
will be crowned in Westminster Abbey. This will be a time when
the ties that bind our family of nations together will be renewed
and strengthened. We pray that Divine Providence will ever guide
the Queen in the discharge of the manifold duties and responsibilities
which, as head of the Commonwealth, Her Majesty has been called
upon to bear so early in life.



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🏛️ Governor-General's Address at the Opening of Parliament

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
Parliament, Governor-General, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mary, Maori, New Zealand Expeditionary Force
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