BRIGHTER DAYS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 68, 2 January 1936, Page 8

BRIGHTER DAYS

THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE. RETURN TO PROSPERITY. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 1. The following is the New Year message from his Excellency the GovernorGeneral (Viscount Galway) to the people of New Zealand, dated Tuesday, December 31: — “On this New Year’s Eve, our first in New Zealand, Lady Galway and I greet you with all sincerity and friendship. As we look back on the old year, we are conscious that it has been one which has brought hope and joy to many, and to those fortunate ones we wish a con tinuance of happiness during the coming year. We know, however, that to others, 1935 has been a year of sorrow and difficulty. We have been sufficients ly long with you to appreciate the extent of tribulation and impoverishment which has overtaken so many of the community, and our sympathies have been with those who, through no fault of their own, have found themselves embarrassed financially and out of regular employment, and who in consequence have suffered much distress of mind. “But there is now every reason to believe that the depression is definitely on the wane and to justify the confident hope that the coming year will be one of industrial revival and of a return to prosperity, and it is our sincere wish that those who have been closely associated with adversity during the last few years will soon find themselves associated once again with prosperity. “For ourseylves and our family, 1935 has been a memorable year in that it has brought us to New Zealand to be the guests on many occasions of most hospitable people. To all those throughout the Dominion who have taken part in friendly welcomes to us we extend our most sincere thanks. “Although at the present time the outlook in other parts of the world is not reassuring, we all hope and pray that during 1936 the minds of the world’s statesmen will be swayed by more reasonable feelings, which will lead to peace and goodwill among the nations, the maintenance of which is so vitally essential to the trade and prosperity of every country. “It has been a matter of great pleasure to us since our arrival in the Dominion to have met so many of the Maori people, and to have had the opportunity of witnessing some of their (time-honoured customs and dances, and listening to their melodious voices. Even more pleasing to us has it been to see them living as they do, in peace and harmony with their pakeha brethren. “On the eve of the New Year we are mindful of all those who have been unable to enjoy to the full the festive season—those who are lying sick in hospital, and particularly those returned soldiers who played their part so r.obly when their country called, and who are now bedridden or suffering from illhealth since the Great War. “To those and to all other inhabitants of New Zealdnd, pakeha and Maori alike, Lady Galway and I wish a bright and happy New Year.”