TASKS OF NEW YEAR
THE KING AND THE CITY OF LONDON. “FOUR-SQUARE” TO ALL WINDS. At the New Year the King has sent the following message to the Lord Mayor of London: —I have received with the greatest pleasure the New Year’s message which you have sent mo on behalf of the citizens of London. I warmly reciprocate, my Lord Mayor, their greetings and sincerely thank you for the kindly reference to the Queen a.nd my family. We have passed through a difficult and anxious year and no one can fail to realise the, heavy weight of responsibility that still faces us at home and overseas. But I am confident that the spirit of I dogged determination a.nd endurance winch has been the mainspring of our efforts in the past will continue to guide our ways and inspire our hearts, i know that ’the City of London wifi, as ever, stand four-square to all the buffeting that the winds of circumstances may bring, and therefore 1 hopefully send my greetings to her citizens,' praying that under divine providence the coming year may lighten our task. —George R-I----PRIME MINISTER ON THE OUTLOOK. The Prime Minister, in a New Year message, says: —“Another year has passed, and, once more, filled with tne usual regrets that time so quickly slips by and the usual hopes and resolutions that the future may be better than the past, we provide ouiselves with new calendars and enter upon a New Year. The twelvemonth to which we sav good-bye has been one of hard work and struggle for all, ana of hardship for too many. But 1 think we have been sustained in it by the thought that we were pressing forward along the right road, that we wero making real progress, and that here and there glimpses of bettei things ahead could be discerned. It is my very earnest hope that m the yeai 1933 our country as a whole may receive some of the rewards which the efforts of its people deserve, and that all those who may read these lines may enjoy during the year both personal happiness and prosperity. Let us go oil facing our tasks determined to finish them.” THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in an address during the service in Canterbury Cathedral on New Year s night, said: —“It was in the dark that last night the Okl Year died and the Isew Year was born. Truly darkness covers the earth. The clouds still hang heavy over the whole world. In our O'Ui land they seem to be breaking, hut they are not yet lifted. How shall we as a people meet this new yeai with all that in may bring? Please God it will lie with steady endurance and resolute courage. These are great qualties, but they are also grim. If they are to sustain us they must themselves l»e sustained by the light or hope. And this light of hope must be more trustworthy than a mere wish or vague expectation that better times may come. . It must be seen shining, not apart from, but in the very midst of, the darkness.” The Archbishop declared that the spirit of selfish nationalism had led into the valley of trouble. The way out must be by substituting for national selfislmess international fellowship. He appealed for personal service.
“TOWARDS BETTER THINGS.”
AIR BALDWIN’S AIESSAGE,
Air Baldwin, as leader of the Conservative Party, contributed New Year message to Home and Empire. He referred to the difficult and dangerous state of affairs a year ago and to the singleness of purpose with which the Government devoted itselt to the national interest with the result that the affairs of the country had been restored to a condition in which prosperity was possible. A year ago conditions made disaster probable and prosperity impossible. Air Baldwin continues: “Two steps taken during the year must afford particular satisfaction to the Conservative Party. The first is the abandonment of the system of onesided free trade and the adoption of a comprehensive and scientific system of tariffs. The second is the adoption of the principle of Imperial preference and its effective application ill the Ottawa Agreements. While both these steps were taken on the broadest national grounds, it is a legitimate source of pride to Conservatives that two of the principles for which they fought so long, and often with a sacrifice of immediate gain, have been adopted on their merits and by general consent under a National Government. ._ “Though we have adopted a taritr policy, this has not been done in order that we may join in the building of ever-liiglier tariff walls. That way lies the destruction rather than the development of international trade. It is our object to use tariffs as a weapon in the struggle for freer world trade, and already the first promise of success is to be found in the approaches made by protectionist countries with a view to securing arrangements which will encourage the development of mutual trade. AVORK OF ECONOAIIC CONFERENCE.
“The fallacy of prohibitive tariffs lies in the assumption that a country may thus make itself prosperous in a poverty-stricken world. This is a delusion. America, with all the advantages of its wide resources, tried to isolate itself in prosperity and failed, and where America was brought down in the general collapse, no other country may liopo to stand alone against universal depression. It is the recognition of this that compels the Government to attach so much importance to the proposed AVorld Economic Conference, for it is only through a general movement towards prosperity, started and accelerated by the removal of the obstruction to finance and trade, that this country or any other country may hope to progress. “Meanwhile, there is evidence that when the world advances towards a general recovery we shall once more be in the forefront.
“All this is to the good so far as it goes. It is a clear encouragment to go on as we have started; to work even harder than we have done, in courage and patience; and —most important of all —to work together, shoulder to shoulder, refusing to break the national ranks or to put any sectional interests above the national cause. If we enter upon the work of 1933 in this spirit, we may hope to take a long stride towards better things before the year comes to a close.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 62, 9 February 1933, Page 3
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