GRAVE DAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 123, 27 May 1941, Page 8

GRAVE DAYS

UNSCRUPULOUS FOE

A FIGHT FOR LIFE

DUTY TO EMPIRE

CP.A.) HAMILTON, This Day. "In these grave days we are all being confronted at all times with new problems in our ordinary business and social life, problems which would often seem insoluble if we faced them from the point of view of citizens of a nation at peace," said the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, opening the Waikato winter show today.

"We have to look at them very differently because we are no longer a nation at peace but an Empire fighting for its life against a very powerful and unscrupulous foe," he said. "Peacetime standards of private interest must now be swept aside. We must govern everything that we do and judge everything that happens to us by its effect upon the conduct of the war and its value to the Empire as a whole.

"Unless we each do our bit, and do it cheerfully, we are failing in our duty to our families, our friends, and our beloved Empire."

In responding to an address of welcome last night, Sir Cyril Newall said: -"There is a part for every one of us to play. There is something each one of us can do, and must do, if we are to triumph over the evil things which threaten us.

"The war is still far from these shores, but it is much nearer than it was even two months ago. Now is the time for us all to work together in our own common determination that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth."