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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 157, 30 March 1943, Page 2

PERSONAL

Mrs. A. N. Grigg, M.P., arrived at Christchurch on Saturday from Wellington.

Mrs. J. Mills, Waipukurau, is spending a holiday in Dunedin.

Miss Aline Buckley, Napier, is the guest of Mrs. Winston Brinsley, Dunedin. Staff-Sergeant B. Shanks and Mrs. Shanks, Wellington, are visiting Mrs. Shanks’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. K. B. Davis, mayor and mayoress of Akaroa.

OPENING GATHERING Social Progress Movement

At its opening meeting for the year, the Women’s Social Progress Movement in Wellington was addressed yesterday by the Bev. A. K. Petch on the subject. Is the world ready for a new order?” There was a large attendance. Miss E. Watson presiding. ... .. The term new world order was the live word of the hour, the speaker said. The idea behind it was in great danger; the prevailing thought seemed to be that the scaffolding for a new order would be rushed up as soon as an armistice was signed. The question was, were people being prepared to build a fair, new world. Few were equipping themselves tor this, the greatest task of our generation, lhe whole question lacked meaning unless men and women were ready to do the job. If people believed a new world order would, in theory, just drop from the skies when the time came, they were going to be sadly disillusioned. Any such order would have to be fashioned at the anvil where men would find themselves alter the war. In Mr. Churchill’s words, it would have to come "out of blood and tears and much sweat.” . Mr. Petch said he was convinced the changes of tomorrow would be lor the worse unless men made efforts to work for the sure guarantee of a better world. Change could be guided so that it was for the better, were men and ■women at this hour nerved with resolution, with their minds made up to see that the new order became a reality and not a dream and determined that peace would be a lasting one. "Whatever form it takes, the new order must be a universal one, Mr. Petch said, “for the world, has become a great neighbourhood. It must be an efficient order, eliminating waste, ’the only efficiency worth having coming from self-discipline. Christianity has always insisted on freedom and laitn lor the individual. A revival of faith in God is needed as the basis of a new Christian order, founded on love of God and love of man.” ~ T Songs were given by Mrs. K. J. mapman and Mr. Gladstone Turner, the accompanists being Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Turner. Miss Mary Annette Burgess gave elocutionary items. Miss Crump led the devotions. Posies were presented to the women artists and together with the speaker and Mr. Turner they were accorded warm votes of thanks from those present.