BUILDING A MONUMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 38, 14 February 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)

BUILDING A MONUMENT.

YOUNG AUCKLAND WILL LEAD,

PUT FIRST THINGS FIRST AND PRACTISE SELF-DENIAL.

Dear Boys and Girls,——

The immediate response by young Auckland to my call for help for Hawke's Bay's unhappy people is a gesture that will be appreciated by those whose load is almost too heavy to bear. I feel sure .that the young 'people of Auckland can raise a sum that will be a monument to their spirit of unselfishness. It is in such a time of national disaster that we should make our -motto "First things first. Denial of self should be the keynote that underlies the action of every one of us. And when we look at things in the spirit of that light, .personal pleasures will go by the board in our endeavour to assist and to reply to the most urgent and poignant appeal that has been heard throughout the ninety odd years of the history of this Dominion. Old England, beset with her own troubles, has heard the call of a ruined town inhabited • only by those who still search the ruins for unknown dead and those of the Motherland are subscribing to this cause. Young Auckland will not be left behind or found lacking at this moment, /7/ and I feel sure that our subscription will stand for ever as a mark of our sympathy in a national disaster.