Wairarapa Daily Times [Established Over 50 Years.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927. A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 31 December 1927, Page 4

Wairarapa Daily Times [Established Over 50 Years.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927. A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

To-morrow, from every lip, as friend greets friend, will sound the old-time wish for a happy New Year. Often, perhaps, the wish may be perfunctory; but in the main the true brotherly spirit, which never fails to move us at this season, will underlie the words with their seasonable grace. We stand upon the threshold of another year, and even to the most thoughtless such a moment must bring pause; for although we know that the date is purely an arbitrary one, and TioTds no virtue intrinsic to itself, yet even so tradition and custom and sentiment combine to make of it an anniversary to be recognised both with regret; and expectation —regret for the old year and for the deeds done and undone therein, and imrecallable now mingled always with the hope that the new one may bring with it a meed of better tilings. Hope springs eternal in the breast, and with every New Year ’s Day the human breast is fuller of that incorrigible sentiment —the laying of another stone in the temple of the years with a lively sense of gratitude for favours to come —than ever. It is good that this should be so; if it were not human existence would lie altogether intolerable. However blackly the clouds may hover over the western past, it is the happy characteristic of the most of us to be able to turn towards the east and read within its spreading glow the promise of the early coming of a heartening sun. There is ever a love for mystery, too, in human hearts; and ot all mysteries none holds so much of fascination as the opening door. What sights will greet us as the portals widen out? What fates are lurking in the shadowed passage there beyond, to meet us as we curiously pass through? As the door of 1927 closes behind us, and that of 1928 opens up in front, let us tread the passage beyond with hope and courage and sincerity, extending the hand of goodfeliowship, with the greeting A HAPPY NEW YEAR.