WILL STAND FOUR SQUARE

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1933, Page 7

WILL STAND FOUR SQUARE

KING’S NEW YEAR MESSAGE GREETINGS TO LONDON CITY SPIRIT OF DETERMINATION THE PRIME MINISTER’S HOPE British Wireless. Rugby, Jan. 2. The King, in reply to a message from the Lord Mayor of London conveying New Year greetings on behalf of the citizens of London, warmly reciprocated the sentiments expressed. “We have passed through a difficult and anxious year and no-one has failed to realise the great weight of responsibility that still faces us,” said His Majesty. “But I am confident th..t the spirit of dogged determination and courage which has been the mainspring of our efforts in the past will continue to guide our ways and inspire our hearts. I know that the City of London will as ever stand four-square to all the buffetings that the end of circumstances may bring, and therefore I hopefully send my greetings to her citizens, praying that under Divine Providence the coming year may lighten our task.” The Prime Minister’s New Year message states: “The year to which we say good-bye has been one of hard work and struggle for all and hardship for too many. But I think that We have been sustained by the thought that we were pressing forward along the right road, that we were making real progress, that here and there glimpses of better things could be discerned. It is my very earnest hope that in the year 1933 our country as a whole may receive some of the reward which the efforts of its people deserve.”