THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES.
MINISTER RELATES A PARABLE. Addressing the school children last week at the opening of the Gladstone district dental clinic at Mount Albert,, the jrtiister of Health, the Hon. A.. J. Stallworthy, told a s to LY which, he said, had useful application to those of maturer years as well a's to boys and girls at school. Tf. was about three men who were working in a granite quarry. A visitor asked the first what lie wa s doing, and the man replied that he was “just putting in a clay’s work.’? The second said he was “earning ten shillings a day,” but the third explained that he was. not merely quarrying rock, but was; helping to build a cathedral. The point, of view of the third man, said MrStallworthy, showed that he had vision and an aim in life. It was not so much what a person did that mattered as the spirit in which it was clone.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1931, Page 4
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162THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1931, Page 4
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