AFTER THE WAR
BUILDING FOR PEACE (P.A.) AUCKLAND,' May 9. Sound advice lo joung people on the mental attitudes they should adopt after the war and the part they should play in reconstruction was given by the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, in a speech at the Auckland University capping ceremony tonight. "These are no ordinary times," hjs Excellency said. "At no moment in history have there been greater opportunities for people of your age, nor was there ever a time of greater difficulties Each of you will have a part to play in the prosecution of the war. and you must play those parts unstintingly and without hesitation. I cannot impress upon you too strongly how heavy is the responsibility every individual citizen must shoulder Our victory depends on that. " When that victory is won," his Excellency said, " it is to you and your contemporaries that will fall the chief share of the reconstruction that will follow, and it will be your job to see to it that the new world you start to build is laid on such sure foundations that it will be worthy of all the pain and suffering and loss of life which will be the price of your opportunity. You must see to it that your new world is impregnable to the storms which sent the old world crashing about our ears.''
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24603, 10 May 1941, Page 10
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