NATIONAL CHARACTER
/'-..—_♦ An address on "National Character" ■was delivered at yesterday's mooting of tho Wellington South Pleasajit Sunday Afternoon Society by Mr. J. A. Hanan, M.P. "Possessing a land of nnrivalled beauty and grandeur; born. Of a stock the best that England, Scotland, and Ireland had produced; enjoy, ing institutions that were of the freest, noblest, greatest character," said tho speaker, "we should realise to the full the potentialities of our trusteeship in the creation of still better institutions and conditions, making Now Zealand tho Mecca of Democracy and her sonsthe most loyal of patriots." Mr. Frew, the soloist of the day, gave a fine rendering of "Crossing the Bar" and "Tho Refuge of the Soul," Miss Embury playing the accompaniment. Mr. C. M. Luke presided over the gathering.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 2
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129NATIONAL CHARACTER Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 2
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