CURSE TO COUNTRIES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 51, 27 January 1933, Page 7

CURSE TO COUNTRIES

‘‘EXCLUSIVE NATIONALISM.” GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S MESSAGE. PATIENCE AND HARMONY. / “The Waitangi Estate was given to New Zealand to inculcate a sense of nationhood in all classes —as distinct from exclusive nationalism. There, is no greater curse than the spirit of exclusive nationalism. It separates nation from nation, builds up hostile tariff walls, leads to the accumulation of gold and an attempt to be self-contained within our own borders,” stated His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, when replying at Woodville to-day to a public reception given Their Excellencies on the occasion of the Vice-Regal visit.

“Wo are all members of the one family,” added His Excellency. “What is good or ill for one part- of the world is always good or ill for the other. Let us have nationhood —not exclusive nationalism. Let us do all to promote solidarity in our own local community between class and class and each section of the body politic, belittling our difficulties, whatever they may he. Let us stand resolute, shoulder to shoulder, until at least our economic troubles are over. Be patient, be enterprising and, above all, be harmonious in everything.

“That is the message of my own mind, and which I feel His Majesty the King would like me to deliver. I consider it is the kindest and truest to deliver to-day to the people of Woodville.

“THE BRIGHTEST DOMINION.” “Serve God. Look to Him for guidance. It is not old-fashioned to do so. It has given strength to the heart and * the good right arm in the past. Live straight, be clean, be sportsmen, play the game, learn all you can at school and you will be worthy of the pioneers who founded this, the hest_ and brightest Dominion of the Empire. Purity of speech, of language and of character embody the finest principles of honesty and truthfulness which arc such important characteristics of the British race.” Tile task of a Governor-General in a British Dominion was always an easy one, stated His Excellency, because ho was always conscious that ho represented the most deservedly beloved monarch in the world. He was also always consicous of the goodheartedness and level-headedness of the population of all classes. At a time when people of other countries were likely to become rattled and impatient, the cool head, sound judgment, and compassionate heart of the British people stood them in good stead. PLEA FOR BEST QUALITY PRODUCE. “Nothing conduces to the happiness of mind more than congenial work in congenial surroundings, and that, I can assure you, we have here,” added His Excellency. He said he fiad read in the newspapers that an apparently experienced farmer had said New Zealand was using too much superphosphate on its land. That, to him, was wholly unintelligible, and he hoped ,the people would not be misled by it. “Every pound of produce should be worthy of a championship award,” stated His Excellency, who urged that uniformity in maintaining the quality of everything was still more important than the exceptional quality of pprt of it. There never was. a time more evident when the farmer should not be content with second best, but should see that his produce was graded fully up to its proper standard at the ports, in order to retain the remunerative credit of a liigli standard of quality.