THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1908. 1908.

King Country Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 63, 3 January 1908, Page 2

THE KING COUNTRY CHRONICLE. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1908. 1908.

A Happy New Year to all! The phrase trips naturally off the tongue at this season, and it is good that it should do so.. In spite of small distinctions, which matter but little in the real national sense, we are one people possessing a common standard, and with a common history and set of traditions to influence us. Thus, interwoven with the good wishes is the time-honoured custom of forming a set of good resolutions for the coming year. The end of the old year is a halting ground where we all look back'and shed some of our acquired superfluities in preparation for the work of the coming year. The acceptance and observance of these customs, small matters in themselves, I are the distinguishing marks which proclaim us to each other as one peoI pie, apart from individual strivings and ambitions, and help to form the chain which binds us as a Nation. The Happy New Year and the good I resolutions are universally acknowledged and recognised as influences for good, and in voicing the common sentiment the Chronicle does so heartily, and without reservation. In the King Country we have many reasons to be happy, and the necessity for good resolutions will be readily admitted. In taking a retrospective glance at the old year it will be seen that something has been accomplished in the march of progress. In forming resolutions for the prospective year it is to be hoped we shall resolve to reach a great deal further, and aspire to do our utmost for the common weal. In a new district there is .much to do, and the public good should be the first consideration of all. In all things which make for the happiness and well-being of a community we are still sadly deficient, and upon our own efforts depends the record for the ensuing year. Let us work hand in hand, with a common object, to make the most and best of one of the finest districts in the Dominion, and the results will be far-reaching, and a tribute to those who are broad enough in spirit and enterprise to sink small prejudices in the interests of humanity in general. Again, we convey to all our heartiest wishes for A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.