A HAPPY AUGURY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 111, 2 January 1932, Page 4

A HAPPY AUGURY

• If the atmosphere of eonfident hopefulness which marked ' the crowds which thronged the Rotorua Town Square as the | docks heralded the advent of 1932 is any criterion, this year's j New Year Carnival has thoroughly justified itself, not only as | a source of entertainment for the thousands who participated in i the revels, but also as a factor in starting the people of Rotorua and their many visitors on the work of the new year in the right frame of mind. Too long the people of the Dominion have permitted the difficulties which beset them to colour their outlook and depress their spirits. For this in no small measure the country's political leaders have been to blame. They, if perhaps with greater reason than the private citizen because of their responsibilities, certainly with les^ excuse because of the wider sphere of their influence, have too frequently permitted their worries to cloucl their judgment and have spoken with manifest pessimism when they should have displayed the confidence which comes of courage. As a oorrective of all such unfortunate influences, to call .them by no stronger name, a carnival such asRotorua has carried to a successful conclusion must have a very great value. Among the crowds on the Square on New Year's morn on all sides could be heard the comment: "What a wonderful start for the New Year." And so in fact it was. When it is remembered that members of that crowd will shortly be scattered throughout the length and breadth of the Domipion, and that each must take with hirn a memory of a scene of happiness and gaiety in which thousands participated with complete self-forgetfulness, something of the psychological value of the evening's revels may be guessed. We stressed this aspect of the carnival while it was yet in prospect and now that it is over we feel that all who have enjoyed it, either as spectators or participants, will agree that the committee and officials whose enthusiasm and enterprise were responsible for its organisation are to be congratulated upon having achieved an outstanding success from every point of view. It has been a happy augury for 1932.