“OUR PRIVILEGE STILL TO SERVE"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 299, 19 December 1945, Page 5

“OUR PRIVILEGE STILL TO SERVE"

N.Z.R.S.A. MESSAGE

SEASONAL GREETINGS FROM DOMINION PRESIDENT (P A.) Wellington, Dec. 18. The Dominion President of the Returned Association, Mr. B. J. Jacobs, issued the following official Christmas message to all ex-service-men: “At last the hopes we expressed have been realised, and we are about to celebrate Christmas once again free from the grim shadow of war and its accompanying anxiety and sadness. On the eve of the festive season I desire, on behalf of the N.Z.R.S.A., to extend to all ex-servicemen, and to those still in the services, the very best of wishes for the coming Christmas, and for the New Year. “We particularly remember the men and women who are sick, maimed dr disabled. Our thoughts fly also to comrades never to return, and to relatives who mourn their lot. To us who are left there still remains a challenge, if we are to reap the full benefit of the sacrifices made. Our answer to that challenge should be to make a solemn resolve that discharge* from the forces does not signify the termination of our service, but that rather it marks our entry into the wider field of service to our country. “In sure certainty that our association will continue its efforts in this direction. I convey my simplfc message to all, confidently expressing the hope that 1946 will usher in a long period of happy and peaceful prosperity in the promotion, and the malntaintenance of which we. as a united body, shall have made a substantial contribution.”