THE PENALTY OF FAILURE
THE HOOD-MONCRIEFF APPEAL. DISAPPOINTING RESULTS. At the final meeting of the HoodMoncrieff Fund Committee, held at Wellington on Monday, Mr J. Laprenson, in, expressing his disappointment in the net result of the appeal made for the dependants of the airmen, .said that they could have got almost anything they wanted amongst, the' 10,000 people who flocked to Tuentbam on the evening of their 'expected arrival had they succeeded, but because they failed it had been found very hard to get donations to the fund' for the dependants, which to Iris mind showed a lack of the sportingspirit.
Thte chairman (Mr G. A. Troup) agreed that is, was disappointing, it w,as another exemplification, of the old adage, that “Nothing succeeds, like success,” and that when a -man was down the general view was to take no not’ce of him. Failure meant rank failure, but success meant everything —“To him that hath shall be. given.” At all events, they could console themselves with the fact that they had “Somehing attempted, something done,” whether or not it earned for them a, night’s repose.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5302, 20 July 1928, Page 2
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184THE PENALTY OF FAILURE Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5302, 20 July 1928, Page 2
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