“THERE IS A TIDE..”
HERE is another reason why the return of peacetime conditions should be an incentive to New Zealanders to place work before pleasure. Shakespeare found words for a present truth when he said: “There is a tide in the affairs of men .. ” For New Zealanders it is here and the choice is ours whether we take it at the “flood which leads on to fortune,” or miss it and drift on the ebb to “the shallows and despair ” The amazing development of the United States in the early part of the century was due to its vast intake of population to meet the needs of industrial and land development. America was the land of opportunity, freedom and equality which beckoned irresistibly to the people who chafed against misery, poverty and repression in their own lands. The mightiest nation in the world today is the result. New Zealand has not the mineral resources or industrial potentiali-
ties to be the Great Britain of the South Pacific, but it has the duty, with Australia, to hold the keys of trusteeship over a- vast area. We dare not fail in that trust.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 16, 26 August 1946, Page 4
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192“THERE IS A TIDE..” Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 16, 26 August 1946, Page 4
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