MESSAGE TO SCHOOLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 24, 30 January 1946, Page 4

MESSAGE TO SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR BOARD CHAOIAN’S WISH “Once mere, and probably for the last time, it is my privilege to wish you all a happy and a prosperous New Year and co express to you my whole-hearted appreciation of your action in carrying out my suggestion to assist in patriotic work during the past year,” says the chairman of the Wanganui Education Board, Mr. E. F. Hemingway (Fatea), in his New Year message tu school in the board’s district.

“Happily, the x\ar that was exacting so great a toh on those near and dear to many o us is now ended and it remains for you and me to show our gratitude to those who have gone forward and fought for us and enabled us to live in security and peace,” the chairman’s message adds.

“How can we show that we are grateful for the sacrifices that have been made on our behalf? How can we act so that these sacrifices shall not have been made in vain? The answer is this. If we want to retain lhe freedom that has been bought for us at grer.t a cost in blood and tears and it we want to prevent wai in the tut me we must endeavour day by day to keep God’s commandments and especially the second one, “Thou shall love Lhy neighbour as thyself.”

“Just think it. out. If every person in every country were to do this there would be no such thing as war in the future and the lives that have been laid down for us would not have been laid down in vain. There is no better way to show our gratitude than this. “Our country wants, above all things, good citizens—girls and boy’s who fear God, love the brotherhood and honour the King. Will you, therefore, during this year and the years that lie beiore you, do your best to be good citizens knowing and feeling that by doing so you are helping to make the worln a better world, helping your country and helping yourselves?

“Trv and be unselfish, try like good Guides and good Scouts, to do at least one good turn to somebody every day and try always to look on the bright side of everything, believing implicitly that, ‘all is for the best in the long run.’

“Do not grumble, but think how fortunate you are not to have suffered as other children in other parts of the woria have suffered. If at any time you are inclined to grumble

when things gc wrong, try and member tiiese lines: "When ihcu has thanked thy God For every blessing sent; What time wil then remain. For murmurs or lament?”