SERIES OF VICTORIES

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 111, 4 February 1943, Page 3

SERIES OF VICTORIES

But Long Way To Go Yet

(By 'Telegraph.— Press Association J DUNEDIN, February 3. "This beautiful country is a long way from the war and it has got further away iu the last three months,” said the Gov-ernor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, in tin address to members of the Commercial Travellers' and AVarebousemeu's Association tonight. "'I lie threat to this country is less now than H was a year ago,” lie said, "and we have also enleied into a new phase where we have tasted the unaccustomed pleasures of victory. There has been a series of victories and a series of good news, and there is a danger of thinking ihat. tilings are going so well that the end is in sight. 1 can assure you that the end is not m sigh . His Excellency added: There haw been a big battle going mi in the Solomons, and while 1 do not say that tin. danger is acute or that it still threatens New Zealand, we have a long road to go. It is a rough road ami by no means a straight one. AA'e must not forget, men momentarily, the threat Io the Empire ami to the Dominion. Men are iljing for us now and many more may have Io As ii responsible section of the community. bis Excellency said be as»il them not. to listen to those who thought the war was as good ns won. 1 lie news was good, but. tijere was a long way Io go yet.