Anthem finds favour
Parliamentary reporter National Party delegates favour the singing of the National Anthem in schools once a week, but think a daily ritual excessive. A remit committee at the National Party conference in Wellington on Saturday agreed that the New Zealand flag be flown at schools and the National Anthem be sung weekly. The anthem and flag would restore a sense of loyalty and pride that seemed to be fast going out of fashion in New Zealand, said the remit’s mover, Mr
A. Stafford, (Hawke's Bay). If New Zealanders had a greater patriotism there would be less civil disobedience and less minimum work for more pay. The Polish esprit-de-corps came from the Polish National Anthem. A firm making New Zealand flags was now selling them faster than it could make them. Opponents of the remit said that children reacted against anything they were forced to do, and that compulsory obedience to the flag and anthem would destroy patriotism.
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