THOUGHT OF THE TIMES.
I SOMETHING TO LEARN. What was it the New Zealander had to learn ? “I think the first lesson he i has to learn,” Mr J. B. Callan, in an 'Empire Day address at Dunedin, said, “and he learns it almost without effort, is national humility. The utter insignificance of his own country comes * home to him in a way that has never ' really been made clear before, and it : enables him to place an accurate judgment on our place in the world. Our j place in the world m ght be compared with our place on the map. In Mercator’s projection we are in the bottom corner of the map, where we are liable j to be snipped off!
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1931, Page 4
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123THOUGHT OF THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1931, Page 4
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