GOVERNOR'S VIEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1917, Page 6

GOVERNOR'S VIEWS.

, • GREATER UNITY REQUIRE®. !By Telegraph.—Press AssJciation. Wellington, Nov. 30. Wellington College, which broke up to-day, is starting the Christmas holidays earlier in accordance with the request of the Efficiency Board in order to allow boys to help the farmers of the country in these times of stress. The principal's report stated that 1000 old boys wore with the colors, and there had been 257 casualties, 139 fatalities, 103 honors and decorations. Two of them, Brandon and Freyburg, had made the fame of their names ring round the world.

The Governor-General, in a speech to the boys, referred to Russia. That coun-1 try had a population of 180 millions, and they had gone stark staring mad at present, and it would be a long timo before they would become sane again. The British people had grown to know the meaning of freedom, and they could t enjoy it rationally. Not for 250 years hail , we suffered anything like a revolution. In Russia v the taste of freedom caused such a revulsiipi that the whole country ha<Jr gone mad, and every kind of crank who could ber kept under when the country was under some regular discipline was free to say and do what he pleased. Many of them were visionaries of the worst description. Those who had read any history would recollect that the people (if France had passed through this phase at-the time of the revolution. It was the sort of thing that was liable to happen when there was no discipline. His Excellency, concluding, said the people of this country were all fully united in their purpose about this struggle, but he thought we should make a greater effort to achieve something more nearly approaching unity of method in order to win the war. On this it did seem people were just a little bit wobbly. It was not a good idea to swop horses too often in the stream, and it was not a good thing to go on saying too many hard things about the horse which was carrying us over the stream. We all wanted to win the war, but if we f could all agree to set. about it in the ! same way We should manage much j better.