THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
NATIONAL SITRINIES. In this degenerate age it is always refreshing to come across even slight signs and faint indications of tha survival of that reverence for patriotic tradition which onoe formed large a part of the national creed. Therefore I desire to record my enthusiastic! appreciation of the fact that within the last week there haa been at Home a sudden and enthusiastic resurrection of -that iparttieularly admirable sentiment which regards great historic scenes and memorials as worthy objects of public worship and'national solicitude. Patriotism has now saved Runnymede for England and Bannockburn for Scotland. But it is a depressing thought, that it needed a special effort and the intervention of private generosity to prevent the desecrationi and destruction of the island where* Magna Charta. was signed and the “field of blood” where Scotland’s freedom was won. —Bystander in Auckland Star.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1929, Page 4
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145THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 27 December 1929, Page 4
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