THE NATIONAL OUTLOOK.

Otago Witness, Issue 3823, 21 June 1927, Page 35

THE NATIONAL OUTLOOK.

TROUBLES MUST BE FACED. WELLINGTON, June 15. Speaking at the Returned Soldiers’ Association Conference social last evening, the Minister of Defence said that if the people of New Zealand would only faco their present troubles with the same couragq as the men of tlie New Zealand Expeditionary Force faced theirs in the war, there need be no concern for th« future.

The Minister said the department was still taking a lively- interest in returned soldiers, and—any request from them would have UabineFs sympathetic consideration. General Sir Andrew Russell referred to the reviving interest in the R.S. A . He thought that five years hence they would reach the. peak of applications for war pensions; for, as the men grew older, their war disabilities would tell more upon them. When thq. droops were in danger they closed up and faced the difficulties, and if the countrj’ was-now facing difficulties the people should stick together and they would pull through. All knew that the Prime Minister had carried his pack in the front line, but he now had a heavier one to carry. They should trust their leaders and close up the ranks, think less about themselves, and think more about their w’omen and children.