THE COMING YEAR
WAR OF INDEPENDENCE P.A AUCKLAND, December 28. Extending New Year greetings to the business community and the public, the president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, Mr. J. B. Stewart, has appealed for a greater effort towards the preservation of individual rights. "Though there is at present we hope only a temporary obscurity, the dawn of 1945 makes a much greater penetration of the shadows of the war zone than it does of those of the economic zone," he said. "In the war zone we are fighting for the independence of nations. So in the economic zone we must fight to enable the individual and the legal entity to preserve their rights. These rights must be preserved within the structure regulating to support and assist but not to repress and compete. "Passive acceptance by the people of State penetration into competition with^ and nationalisation of industry and commerce is the beginning of such a deterioration of the capacity and energy of the individual as would lead ultimately to economic disaster; Let us, therefore, in the coming year assert ourselves by individual effort to improve and develop the spiritual, political, and material sides of our lives, each as complementary to the others, and the result will be reflected in a nation our men will be proud to have fought for."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 155, 29 December 1944, Page 4
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222THE COMING YEAR Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 155, 29 December 1944, Page 4
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