CANADA’S EXAMPLE
Sir, —I am reading a book of addresses by Stanley Baldwin, and among other fine things I found this: “Canada is a land of good wages and unlimited possibilities, built up primarily by '• British capital, by private enterprise, British brains, British skill, British capital opened up thte country# built its railways, ploughed and sowed its land, reaped its corn, and helped to bring the cheap loaf to our breakfast table. This was accomplished by British character, which, being interpreted, means the will to work, to confront difficulties, to confront hardships, and to surmount them in a spirit of self-reliance. If thfe people of a nation are paupers in spirit, they will build nothing but a poor house filled with a grumbling population. If they are upstanding men they will produce a self’ respecting and a prosperous community.” Does our New Zealand in the last 12 years come up to this standard?—Yours, etc.,_ DECIMUS. December 11, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25365, 12 December 1947, Page 3
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