Are We Lazy?
“Our national sins today are love of ease, pleasure, and idleness,” said the president of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, Mr C. A. Smith, Gisborne, in an address to the Canterbury branch of the society. “If we do not recognise that we earn our bread by the sweat of our brow, we will not be able to withstand any change in the economy of this country,” he said. People today relied too much on material values an not on moral and spiritual values. New Zealand’s chances of weathering an economic depression depended on the people’s moral and spiritual values.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 2, 28 November 1947, Page 5
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103Are We Lazy? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 2, 28 November 1947, Page 5
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