THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. Public Service.” WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1944. HERITAGE MOVEMENT

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THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. Public Service.” WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1944. HERITAGE MOVEMENT

The incorporation of ten branches and the enrolment of 2000 members throughout the Dominion shows that the Heritage Movement is in a fair way to becoming strongly estab-' lis'hed. This record of progress, reported at the first Dominion Conference, is a gratifying testimony to the sympathetic appreciation of the public-spirited aims for which the movement has been organised. Its status, simply, is that of an unofficial and quietly unobtrusive foster-parent to the fatherless children of deceased servicemen, and its functions largely those of a sympathetic institution prepared to assist them in various ways, not necessarily financial, to find their niche in society, and careers suited to their aspirations and capacities. ’ In effect, it is the assumption by public-spirited members 1 of our community, of a moral responsibility for the welfare of young people deprived by the tragic circumstances of war. of paternal influences and solicitudes so valuable in the formative years, and of the opportunities in life, which such advantages and interests hold out to others.