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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20760, 31 December 1930, Page 11

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BRITAIN'S COMING ORDEAL.

SERMON BY DR. LANG

(Received December 30, 6.5 p.m.)

British Wireless. RUGBY, Dec. 29. The need for sacrifice in the face of one of the most serious ordeals with which Britain has ever been faced was omphasised in a sermon preached last evening by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, in Canterbury Cathedral.

Sacrifice must be made by all classes and sections, he said, although it might be the sacrifice of long-conceived opinions. There must he readiness to view the situation in the light of existing facts. There must be sacrifices in industry, agriculture and the trade unions, and sacrifices were rendered necessary in order to secure for industry and for labour the mobility which was needed to meet the crisis of the time.

There might even have to be the sacrifice of the advantages which certain sections of the community, quite rightly at the time, had secured for themselves, but which were no longer consistent with right and fairness to the whole body of the people. There might have to be—although it was hard to say it—some temporary sacrifice of the standard of life deservedly won on the basis of the past, when production and m>c were assured. There must be sacrifice in order to ease the recovery of that basis in the future.

Not least, there must be sacrifice especially of the wealthier classes in expenditure on amusement and luxuries.