Newall Looks For Return To Land

Northern Advocate, 14 November 1941, Page 6

Newall Looks For Return To Land

[Per Press Association. —Conyright] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day, “It is my earnest hope that when this war has been won and when the foundations of a just and lasting peace have been laid we may see a widespread return to the land, not only in New Zealand, but in the Homeland and throughout the British Empire as well,” said the Governor-General (Sir Cyril Newail), speaking at the official luncheon at the Metropolitan show today. Sir Cyril said he felt one of the underlying causes which had led if not to the war, at least to the uneasiness ox the mechanical age was that so many human beings had seen and knew so little of the land itself—the land which had bred them and to which they owed so much. Stabilising Influence A farming community in any land was always a stabilising influence, perhaps because of their closeness to nature which saved their sense of ultimate valfies from many of the prevalent distortions. The work farmers were doing was of prime importance for' the Empire’s war effort. He knew they were faced with many difficulties but he knew also that they would meet those difficulties with the same spirit of determination and grit as enabled the. early settlers of Canterbury to triumph over their early j hardships. '