NEW YEAR HOPES

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 10

NEW YEAR HOPES

INDUSTRIAL REVIVAL

LORD GALWAY'S MESSAGE

IMPORTANCE OF PEACE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 31.

The following New Year message from his Excellency the GovernorGeneral, Lord Galway, to the people of New Zealand was issued today:—

"On this New Year's Eve, our fust in New Zealand, Lady Galway and I greet you with all sincerity and friendship. As we look Lack on the Old Year we are conscious that it has been one which has brought hope and joy lo many, and to those fortunate ones we wish continuance of happiness during the coming year. "We know, however, that to others 1935 has been a year of sorrow and difficulty. We have been sufficiently long with you to appreciate the extent of tribulation and impoverishment which has overtaken so many of the community and our sympathies have been with those who, through no fault of their own, have found themselves embarrassed financially and out of regular employment and who, in consequence, have suffered much distress of mind. "There is now every reason to believe that the depression is definitely on the wane and to justify a confident hope that tbe coming year will be one of industrial revival and of a return to prosperity. It is our sincere wish, that-those who have been closely associated with adversity during the past few years will find themselves in the near future associated once again with prosperity. "For ourselves and our family 1935 has been a memorable year ia that it has brought us to New Zealand lo be the guests on many occasions of most hospitable people. To all those throughout the Dominion who have taken part in friendly welcomes to us we extend our most sincere thanks. "Although al the present time the outlook in other parts.oE the world is not reassuring, we all hope and pray that during 1936 the minds of the world's statesmen will be swayed by more reasonable feelings, which will lead to peace and good will among nations, the maintenance of which is so vitally essential to the trade and prosperity of every country.

'"It has been a matter of great pleasure to us since our arrival in the Dominion lo have met so .many of the Maori people and to have had ihe opportunity of witnessing some of their time-honoured customs and dances and listening to their melodious voices. Even more pleasing to us has it been lo see ihem living as they do in peace and harmony with their pakeba brethren.

"'On the eve of the New Year we are mindful of all those who have been unable to enjoy lo the full the festive season—those who are Ivittg sick, in hospital and particularly those returned soldiers who played 'their part so nobly when their country called and who are now bedridden or suffering from ill health. To these and to all other inhabitant? of New Zealand—pakeha and Maori alike—Lady Galwav and 1 wish a bright av^ lijmimv New Year.'