GOVERNOR-GENERAL LOOKS INTO FUTURE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18960, 6 January 1930, Page 9

GOVERNOR-GENERAL LOOKS INTO FUTURE.

URGES CO-OPERATION T 0 ‘ PROMOTE HAPPINESS. (Special to the “Star.”) I _ AUCKLAND, January 6. The \‘XSIOnS which he and Lady Alice saw when they took up their duties in New Zealand five years ago were outlined by Sir Charles Fergusson at a farewell in the Town Hall on Saturday night, when much enthusiasm was displayed by a gathering of 2000 people. “The first vision,” said Sir Charles, "was of a country where children are trained to realise the characteristics and virtues by which their forefathers built _up this country for them, characteristics of grit and endurance, courage and determination and self-sacri-fice, a country where children should understand that firm religious faith is the only true foundation on which life can be lived, or by which a nation can achieve greatness. (Applause) “Another vision was of a country where parents realise that there is nothing in the world that can take the place of early home training and home influence. Another vision was of a country where the people of the community, irrespective of class or creed, or political faith, should mix freely together and so by knowledge and understanding of each other there should be evolved that love and sympathy and helpful co-operation which will drive out all bitterness. rancour, jealousy and suspicion, those things which poison the life of a. community. “Again, we had a vision of a country in which, to borrow a phrase recently used at Home, statesmen and people should be more concerned with the quality of their loyalty to the Empire as a whole than with the questions of equality of their status with the Mother Country and their sister dominions. “And, lastly, came a vision of the New Zealand of the future, a country where the people are determined to be true to the traditions of their forefathers, to accept and be proud of the glory of the heritage handed down to them; a people who will spare no sacrifice in carrying out the duty laid upon them, of transmitting that wonderful heritage to their children, and their chil‘ dren's children, embellished and undefiled; a New Zealand which shall be a. place where men, recognising that only by co-operation and love and sympathy can they be a happy and contented people; a New Zealand which shall pride itself on keeping alive the traditions of love, loyalty and devotion to what has been handed down to them—that wonderful Ernpire, typified by his Majesty the King as its head." (Applause.)