Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1923. A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2677, 29 December 1923, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1923. A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

BEFORE another issue of the “Herald” reaches our reader's the old year will have passed. The old year, with all its pleasures and sorrows, is fast drawing to a close and soon will be “With yesterday’s ten thousand years.” But with the death of the old year comes the birth of a new, bringing with it a brighter era for all people, and so, though we are loath to part with our old friend 1923, he bids farewell and leaves us to welcome young 1924 with joyous festivities. So we hail the New Year with gladness, welcoming a new friend on our life’s journey. The New Year! A time for the making of fresh resolutions and the living of a right life. May Young 1924 usher in happiness and prosperity to our readers.

THE new-born year is hailed alike by rich and poor', old and young. Friendly greetings, sunny smiles, and generous wishes are plentiful as stars. Even foes relax their enmity, and forget their quarrels; and vows, involving a. higher and better life, are earnestly made on earth and carefully registered in Heaven. Happy, thrice happy, would it be, if each year continued and ended as-pleasantly and satisfactorily as it began!—E. Davies.