THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1925. CO-OPERATION.

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THE Hauraki Plains Gazette With which is incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. Motto: Public Service. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, & FRIDAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1925. CO-OPERATION.

Co-operation may be an overworked word on paper, but it cannot be overworked in practice. W’e cannot have too much co-operation along right lines. What the citizens of other places and towns are doing should be an incentive to us. Everywhere people are coming to realise more and more how interdependent we are on each other. The only individual who is self-sufficient is a hermit. The keynote—the foundation of civilisatoin —is the family. All concede that; and we are rapidly coming to realise that our pwxx home town is a home town family—simply the family unit a little bit extended through neighbourly cordiality, friendship, and pleasant social intercourse. Common goodwill and recognition of our human obligation is a deeper currency than any money system ever invented. It is also to our advantage on tlie material side of life—it rebounds in bettex- practices, living conditions, more generous impulses ; it makes the town a better place in which to live. Let us make our home town unit closer knit. Let us be generous with our good will, realising that the prosperity of the individual is directly rellee’ed in an added prosperity to our community. Every boy and girl in Paeroa is a potential asset to us all. Right development of this asset implies better education, wholesome amixsmnent, promising industrial and professional 1 opportunity, and environment that recognises the developing power of yotith and gives it a real chance. Individual efforts, no matter how laudable they may be, invariably

sink into insignificance. Success is only gained by pulling together: cooperation is necessary if our town is to assume' its rightful position. Paeroa, in its present stage, is too small to allow of rival factions in our midst, and far greater good will be accomplished if we could all stand united and work for the common weal.