MUST PLAY THEIR PART

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21959, 10 May 1941, Page 6

MUST PLAY THEIR PART

Young People Of To-day

(PA.) AUCKLAND, May 9. Sound advice to young people on the mental attitudes they should adopt after the war and the part they should Slav in reconstruction was given by ie Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, in a speech at the Auckland University capping ceremony ton*“Tliese are no ordinary times,” said his Excellentcy. “At no moment in history have there been greater opoortunities 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 it is to you and your contemporaries that will fall the chief share of the reconstruction that will follow. 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, suffering and loss of life which will be the criee of your opportunity. You must see to it that your new world is impregnable to the storms which sent the old world crashing about your ears.”