FAITH IN FUTURE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 September 1933, Page 6

FAITH IN FUTURE

LORD BLEDISLOE’S VIEWS. WELLINGTON, Monday. Pride in the courage and determination that the'people of New Zealand had shown during the last few difficult years, and confidence in the nations future welfare, were expressed by His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloc," speaking at the. Dominion Day re-union of the Early Settlers and Historical Association of Wellington this afternoon. "It is on this day more than on other days in the year that we look back and look forward,” His Excellency said. "There are many countries in the world that cannot consciously and confidently look back with entire self-satisfaction to their past history. There need be no qualms in this country, however, in looking over its comparatively short history and feeling, not only a pride in the past, but also a buoyant confidence in the future. Twenty-seven years ago, this then socalled Colony became a Dominion, entering into the status of a great selfgoverning unit of the greatest Empire in the world. That is a distinction conferred on but few other countries, and a distinction, in spite of its size and relatively small population, of which New Zealand has shown herself to be abundantly worthy. During the last two years she had found herself in the greatest economic crisis with which tho world has ever been confronted, a crisis from which the world has not yet completely emerged, and a problem which the great Economic Conference has failed to solve, but I want to take this opportunity of saying—because now we see the light on the horizon, and we believe that brighter times are coming—that I feel proud of the courage and determination, self-reliance and resourcefulness, that this country has shown during the difficult years that have lately passed.” _ Referring to the manner in which those in want had faced the situation, His Excellency said it was the strongest evidence of the deep-rooted stability of the country, which was going to carry it to a higher position than it had ever occupied. —(P-A.)