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" - " " W r-w w y y r -w ~ r w r -r ~ NEW ZEALAND S GREATEST DANGER Recoived Fi'iday, 7 p.m. LONDON, February 7. Now Zealand Day was oliscrvod in Loudon Avitli tlie customary churcli sei-vice lollowed by tlie' oongregation being the g'uests of the \\ orshipiul ( uiiipany oi Oii'dlers. At night a dinner was given by the New Zealand Society. Some 50 New Zcalander.s padded thi'ough soupy brown slush to St. James. noar London Dridge, and in the ancient church whicli has a gaping liolc 111 the ceiling as one of its many blitz scars, they listencd to an address by the Dean of Norwich, the Right Keverond II. St. Bat-be Ilolland, latelv Dishop of Wellington. The Dean, tvho took tts his text, " Shall a nation be born in one day? Shall a nation be brougbt forth at once?" urged that New Zealand should concentrate to a greater extent 011 the spiritual rather than the niaterial. One of her greatest dangers at the moment, he thougiit, was the uneonscious selfrighteousness of the adolescent — she thought she was already leading the world. He suggested that the attitude might be utterly disastrous because it brought the danger oi' living 011 ca])ital and enjoyment. the fruits of conrage, energy, vision and the faith of those who brought the nation so far 011 its way, vvithout realising that the real goal of New Zealand \s lit'e was far ahead. The forqmost cluty Avas to acld to the rnoral and spiritual capital. j IMr. Jordan, Dishop Gerard, General W. Stevens and Mr. F. S. Arthur were among those present. Mr. Attlee, at the New Zealand Day commemorative dinner, likened New Zealand, with its Labour Government to "a laboratory of social experiment." He added that Britain hoped to overtake New Zealand in social reform. »