"LANDS OF HOPE."

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20087, 17 November 1930, Page 7

"LANDS OF HOPE."

NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA. To a large audience in the Civic Theatre last night, Dr. G. S. Arundale gnve an address on "Australia and New Zealand, Lands of the Larger Hope." "The world to-day," he said, "needs hopefulness as never before. Doubt, fear, and depression are widespread, but that is inevitable, in view of the fact that a new world has been born and that it is as yet tottering on its feet. The old props and supports are being cut from beneath us, but 'hope springs eternal in the human Lreast,' in spite of times of temporary drought. "The spirit of freedom is now rising within us. Tho average individual has been intent upon himself and not upon the intWfsta of tho community. Education all the world over is for self and not for civic benefit. Rather should it he a traimng ground for active citizenship, and there is a great need that it should be lifted to a higher level. . . . What we need today is people with visions of the future, people nl buoyancv an 4 of strong hope. Russia has not yet solved her problems. Indped, she is still in n condition of experiment. . . . The League of Nations is not receiving the support that it should from the great Powers, for tho reason the countries still have a suppressed suspicion of each other. I do not think that the world has yet learned a' lesson of the Great War." Nowhere was hope wider spread than in New Zealand and Australia, said Dr. Arundale. Both countries were beginning to realise their mission to tho world and to appreciate the note that each had to sound in the hnrmonv of the world. In Professor Condliffe's book on New Zealand, there was in-: rlic-ated a new physical type of individual—a type which, as to cfiaracter. included frankness and shrewdness — an admirable combination. As to industry, why should New Zealand use American crutches when she could stand on New Zealand feet? asked Dr. Arundale. The salvation of New Zealand industry was bound up with the purchase bv the individual of New Zealnncl-made goods.