Striking a Balance
“We New Zealanders are often charged with naving no sense of the past. If it is so, the celebrations for the Centennial are evidence that we would fain amend our ways. Jnless we do we can have no real claim to nationhood, for national maturity means acknowledging our debt to the past,” said the Moderator of the Presbytery of Wellington, the Rev. Bean Kilroy. M.A., in his address at the Centennial thanksgiving service held at the exhibition yesterday. “On the other hand, we must not exalt the past sa that we imagine that it contained all that was good and that our days are hopelessly degenerate,” added Mr Kilroy.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 January 1940, Page 3
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112Striking a Balance Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 12 January 1940, Page 3
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