DEAN OF NORWICH ON DOMINION TRENDS

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5323, 8 February 1947, Page 5

DEAN OF NORWICH ON DOMINION TRENDS

Country's Real Goal Lies Far Ahead LONDON, Eebiuary 7. New Zealand Day was o!»sorved in Londoit with the i-ustomary church service, followed by the yongregation being the guests of the Wbrshipful Company of Girdlers. At night a dinner was given by the New Zealand Society. Some 5'0 New Zealanders padded through soupy brown slush to St. James' near London hridge and, in the ancient church, which has a gaping hole in the ceiling as one of its many blitz scars. they listened to an address by the Dean of Norwich, the Very Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland, lately Bishop of Wellington. The Dean, who took as his text: "S'nall a nation be born in one day? Shall a nation be broTght forth at once?" ui'ged that New Zealanders should eoncentrate to a greater extent on the spiritual rather than the material. One of New Zfialan.l's greatest dangers at the moment. the Dean thought, was the uneonscious selfrighteousness of the adoleseent — she thought she was already leading the world. He suggested that this affitude might be utterly disastrous, hecause it brought the danger of living on capital and enjoying the fruits of courage, energy, vision and faith from those who had brought the nation so far on its way without realising that the real goal of New Zealand's life was far ahead. The foremost duty was to add to its moral and spiritual capital. Mr. Attlee, at the New Zealand Day commemorative dinner, likened New Zealand with its Labour Government lo "a laboratory of social experiments." He added that Britain hoped to ovevtake New Zealand in social roform.