THE VALUE OF DISCIPLINE
No contribution to the Earthquake Relief Fund will be valued by the townspeople of Napier and Hastings more highly than the gift of £530 from, the men of the warships. If the townspeople were asked they would say that the services of the Navy were alone a gift ( beyond valuation; and this contribution, giving further proof of the Navy's desire to help, doubles the debt. It is worth while considering what made this service so valuable that the chairman of the Napier committee said fervently, "Thank God for the Navy," and when three cheers were given for helpers in the earthquake area the Navy was singled out for six. Undoubtedly the greatest service was that to which Commodore Blake has referred in his letter—the moral support which gave the hardhit people a feeling of confidence, security, and cheer. None but a disciplined force could have inspired the same confidence. In shock and disaster the Naval discipline, resulting in calm, methodical organisation, was a rock on which the shaken people of the town could rest. Is it then such an offence as some would claim that, in our citizen training, an endeavour should be made to instil in the youthful minds some appreciation of this order, and discipline?
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 12
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211THE VALUE OF DISCIPLINE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1931, Page 12
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