THE PERSONAL TOUCH
Because of the high ideal of service which has actuated its founders, Heritage deserves the full sympathy and support of the public. The work which the movement has set out to do is essentially personal—to take the place, as far as that is possible, of fathers of New Zealand children who have lost their lives in the war. There is nothing that can compensate fully for the loss of a loved parent, but there is much that can be done to make the path through life of an orphaned child a little easier than it otherwise might have been. That is the principal objective of Heritage. The duty of providing for the material needs of children bereaved by the tragedy of war rightly belongs to the State, but no Act of Parliament, no matter how generous or how widely conceived, can make all the provision that is necessary to ensure that a child so left will have a full opportunity in life. That can only come through moral and spiritual forces—by the practice of that spirit of good-neighbourliness which is the motive of Heritage.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 147, 19 December 1944, Page 4
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187THE PERSONAL TOUCH Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 147, 19 December 1944, Page 4
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