“ROUGH ROAD AHEAD”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 28, 4 February 1943, Page 4

“ROUGH ROAD AHEAD”

GOVERNOR-GENERAL WARNS WISHFUL THINKERS

> ■, Dunedin, Feb. 3. I his beautiful country is a long way from the war, and it has got turthcr away m the last three months," the Governor-General. Sir Cvril u 6l '/! 11 ' s ?- id in an af| dress to members ol the Commercial Travellers and Warehousenien’s Association to-night. * le threat to this country is less now than it was a year ago, and we have entered into a new phase where we have tasted the unaccustomed pleasures of victory.

“There lias been a series of. victories, a series of good news." he said and there is a danger of thinking that things are going so well that the end is in sight.

“I can assure you that the end is V.nl ,n si £ht’" D* s Excellence added . rl (? re J? a , s bocn a >’ik battle going on in the Solomons, and while I do not ■ S . ay .■n at ., thc dan ser is acute or that it still threatens New Zealand, we have a long road to go. It. is a rough road and by no means a straight one. VI e must not forget even momentarily the threat to the Empire and to the Dominion. Men are dying for us now, and many more may have to

As a responsible section of the community. His Excellency said, he asked them not to listen to those who owin'to circumstances, thought the war was as good as won. The news was good but there was a long way to go yet.